Events
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UMass Amherst Outreach to Honor Outreach Scholarship and Community Impact
UMass Amherst will once again honor outstanding scholarship that has a direct impact on the external community as Vice Provost for University Outreach Sharon Fross presents the 2008 Distinguished Academic Outreach Awards.
The ceremony is being held on Wednesday, April 16, from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. in Campus Center Room 1009. A reception will follow. The event recognizes and encourages superlative individual achievement in academic outreach and community engagement.
UMass Amherst Interim Chancellor Thomas Cole and Provost Charlena Seymour will be on hand to greet the award recipients. In addition, Provost Seymour will present awards to this year’s Community Service Learning Faculty Fellows.
The Distinguished Academic Outreach Awards were established in 1997. This year’s awards reflect the growing depth and importance of Outreach Scholarship on campus, according to Vice Provost Fross. This year the university is honoring outstanding Outreach achievement individually in Research and Teaching. In addition, an outstanding Community Partner is being honored.
UMass Amherst Spotlights Its Founding And Founders
Charter was signed 145 years ago
The University of Massachusetts Amherst will celebrate its first “Founders Day” on Tuesday, April 29, 145 years after the then-Governor of Massachusetts signed the charter that created the first public institution of higher education in the state.
Students, faculty, alumni and community members will gather with state and university dignitaries to note the event with music and dance performances and lunch-with-entertainment under tents outside the university’s Fine Arts Center.
The morning’s performance in the Fine Arts Center Concert Hall will be a fast-moving medley of music and dance from campus talent as well as high-school performers from Springfield and Worcester. It will feature everything from concert band pops to jazz to African dance. The event is open to the public, admission is free of charge and tickets can be reserved in advance by calling the Fine Arts Center Box Office at 413-545-2511 or toll free at 1-800-999-UMAS.
Lunchtime food tents offering barbeque treats for sale will open at 11:30. Diners will get to enjoy wandering student performers while dining.
The celebration culminates when the nationally known UMass Amherst Minuteman Marching Band arrives at 12:30 to herald the ceremonial cutting of a birthday cake in the shape of the campus’ Old Chapel.
Information on the event is available at www.umass.edu/foundersday.
