Men and women 35 and older are needed to participate in a Kinesiology Department study of foot measurements on Tuesday, May 23 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Biomechanics Lab in Totman.
The Sports Medicine Department invites faculty and staff to its invitational golf tournament on Friday, June 9 at the Ledges Golf Club in South Hadley.
Academic Computing is offering a wide variety of hands-on workshops for faculty to learn new technologies while working with content from their own courses.
The Center for Public Policy and Administration (CPPA) will host an information technology conference for nonprofit organizations on Wednesday, May 31 from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Edie Meidav, assistant professor of English, has been awarded $25,000 from President Marty Meehan’s Creative Economy Initiatives Fund to help pregnant and parenting teens in Holyoke gain job skills and a sense of self-worth and self-determination.
Through UMass MFA Story Hour, Meidav and graduate...
Chancellor Kumble R. Subbaswamy, writing in today’s Boston Globe, argues that academic freedom is key to truth and democracy.
Citing the 850-year history of formal protection of scholars from government interference and from reprisals for their academic work, Subbaswamy says, “These concepts, the...
A proposed fiscal 2018 budget released May 16 by the Senate Ways and Means Committee includes $534.5 million for the UMass system, an increase of $26.2 million or 5 percent over this year.
The budget drew praise from university leaders, who noted the support of Senate President Stanley C. Rosenberg...
Three Amherst campus research initiatives are among nine projects across the five-campus system that are sharing $735,000 in grants from the President’s Science & Technology (S&T) Initiatives Fund.
Announced May 17 by President Marty Meehan, the projects showcase a range of cutting-edge...
The Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR) has awarded three research grants totaling $25,000 in its inaugural round of funding through the Sustainability and Social Science Seed Grant Program.
The grant program...
Doris Ann (Bigwood) Housman, 84, of Athol, a retired dormitory custodian, died May 11.
Born in Orange on Jan. 17, 1933, she grew up in Orange and was educated there. She joined UMass Amherst as a dormitory housekeeper...
By mid-June, undergraduate outreach librarian Annette M. Vadnais will have traveled to Springfield 20 times this school year to help pupils understand that college is an option for their future.
Her efforts, supported...
