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AMHERST, Mass. – The University of Massachusetts Amherst will kick off a year-long sesquicentennial celebration of its founding in 1863 with Founders Week, April 22 -29, an expansion of the university’s annual Founders Day celebration.

 

Students, faculty and staff have the opportunity to demonstrate their commitment to a healthy, sustainable campus on Earth Day, April 22. The full day of activities celebrating Earth Day features an afternoon student fair and concert on Goodell Lawn, a Trashion Show featuring student-designed outfits made from recycled materials, and an evening keynote

AMHERST, Mass. – Two University of Massachusetts Amherst alumnae are recovering from injuries sustained during the April 15 terrorist bombing in Boston.

 

Brittany A. Loring of Ayer, a 2006 graduate, remains hospitalized but her condition has been upgraded from critical to serious, according to the Ayer News. Longmeadow native Ryan C. McMahon, 33, of Boston, a 2002 graduate, received a fractured vertebra and two broken arms when she fell as the crowd in the viewing stand fled the scene after the blasts, according to the Republican.

 

A recovery fund has been established for Loring.

AMHERST, Mass. – Media reports today incorrectly identified one of the Boston Marathon terror suspects as a University of Massachusetts Amherst student. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is not a UMass Amherst student and was never a UMass Amherst student. The university is notifying media outlets about the error to clarify the situation for the public and the campus community.

AMHERST, Mass. – A sport management student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is organizing a 2.62-mile run on the Amherst campus to raise money for victims of the Boston Marathon bombing. The event is being held tonight, April 18. The runners are to gather at 6 p.m. on the plaza between the Mullins Center and the practice skating rink with the run starting off at 6:30 p.m.

 

Lead organizer Christopher J.

AMHERST, Mass. – University of Massachusetts Amherst Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy recently accepted from his environmental advisory committee an updated Climate Action Plan that outlines ambitious goals for the campus, focused not only on energy efficiency and reduced emissions, but on raising sustainability literacy, student participation and integrating green principles into all of campus life, notably academic courses.

 

The 60-page report updates the campus’s first action plan released in 2010, which identified strategies for reaching carbon neutrality over the next 37 years, by 2050.