The campus''s Libraries will host "Education for Our Times: Expertise and Engagement," an EDUCAUSE learning initiative web symposium, on May 24-25 from noon to 4:45 p.m. in 1620 Du Bois Library.
Rep. Stephen Kulik (D-Worthington) will discuss current and future state funding for the University system at the Faculty Senate meeting on Thursday, May 18 at 3:30 p.m. in 227 Herter Hall.
Bina Agarwal, professor of economics at the Institute of Economic Growth at Delhi University, will speak on "Environmental Wealth and Gender Justice: from Paradox to Potential" on Thursday, May 18 at 7:30 p.m. in Gordon Hall.
Graduate and undergraduate students will collaborate on Monday, May 15 at 7 p.m. in Bezanson Recital Hall to perform the final string concert of the academic year.
Aldon Morris, professor of sociology at Northwestern University, will speak on "Sociology of Race and W. E. B. Du Bois: The Path Not Taken" on Wednesday, May 17 at 4 p.m. in 917 Campus Center.
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...
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 Expanding Computing Education Pathways team at the College of Computer and Information Sciences is once again taking part in the annual online “STEM for All Video Showcase” from May 15-22, a week of presentations that highlight cutting-edge work funded by the National Science Foundation and other federal agencies.
Ruth Ferguson Hooke, 90, of Vershire, Vermont, a retired longtime instructor, advisor and program coordinator at University Without Walls (UWW), died May 20.
Born March 12, 1927, in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, she attended...
Merka (Mary Uris Oser) Fletcher, 71, of Shutesbury, a former assistant at the University Day School, died May 18.
Born Oct. 27, 1945, she was raised in Clinton, New York, and earned her bachelor’s degree in...
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...
