Retired Faculty Association UMass Amherst

Retired Faculty Association

University of Massachusetts Amherst

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Welcome to the Retired Faculty Association

The aims of the Retired Faculty Association are:

• To facilitate constructive contributions by its members to the University;
• To ascertain the relevant needs of retired faculty and to communicate this information to the administration; and
• To promote social and intellectual interaction among its members.

All retired faculty members and librarians are eligible for Active Membership with full voting rights. Retired faculty members and librarians living outside the Amherst area, retired faculty members and librarians of other colleges or universities, and widows or widowers of persons who were eligible for Active or Associate Membership, may become Associate Members upon payment of Associate Member dues. Spouses of Active or Associate Members qualify as Associate members without payment of dues.

This site aims to provide useful information to retired faculty through the links on the menu at left. If you have suggestions for types of information you would like to find here contact us at retfac@cns.umass.edu

Featured News

March 12, 2014 Meeting Agenda
Campus Center 162

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee, Tea and Cookies

10:30 - 10:40 Business meeting and Announcements

10:40 - 11:00 Prof. Jon McGowan
Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Wind Turbines: The Race Started at UMass

11:00 - 12:00 Prof. Joe Larson
Preserve UMass Preserving the Historic Buildings and Landscape of the Campus

	Jon G. McGowan Professor Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Professor Jon McGowan received his Ph.D. and B.S. degrees from the Carnegie Institute of Technology and his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. He has been at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst since 1967. He holds a joint appointment as a Research Affiliate in the Environmental and Energy Laboratory at MIT. He has technical expertise in a wide area of renewable energy subjects, especially in the area of wind systems analysis, siting, and resource assessment.
	Joseph Larson Professor Emeritus Preserve UMass
Joe Larson is a UMass alumnus, Classes of 1956 and G 1958, majoring in Forestry and Wildlife. After working in Boston and Maryland he earned his Ph.D. at Virginia Tech. In 1967 he returned to UMass on the faculty of Forestry and Wildlife. He also served in The Graduate School as Director of The Environmental Institute, retiring in 2000. In 2007 he was one of the founders of “Preserve UMass” in response to threats to several historic UMass Amherst buildings and landscapes.