University of Massachusetts Amherst

College of Social and Behavioral Sciences




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OF NOTE

SBS Senior Celebration participants

SBS Senior Celebration
The Mullins Center was packed and spirits were high as the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences congratulated the Class of 2012 on May 12 at its annual Senior Celebration. Blue skies, balmy breeze, 75 degrees—who could ask for better weather for the graduates' last day on campus. View Photo Album... View slideshow, featuring members of the senior class, shown to audience prior to the processional. Facebook users, tag yourselves (and friends) and comment on images posted there.

Garrett StoneUrban Design Project in Rome Brings Insights and Recognition
Garrett Stone ’12 (landscape architecture) spent three years as an owner and operator of a small café in Cambridge, MA, with his father before enrolling at UMass Amherst. Admitting that he “kind of fell into the food service industry,” Stone discovered landscape architecture one day walking through the student design gallery at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Read more...

Jane FountainFountain Named to New Commonwealth's Council for Innovation
Professor Jane Fountain (political science and public policy), a member of the World Economic Forum Global Advisory Council on the Future of Government, has been named by Governor Patrick to the newly established Commonwealth’s Council for Innovation. Read more...

Lynn Phillips and Nicholas McBrideSBS Outstanding Teaching Awards Recognize Faculty
This year’s Social and Behavioral Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award goes to Lynn Phillips, chief undergraduate advisor and lecturer in Communication, and Associate Professor of Journalism Nicholas McBride ’76 (political science). Read more...

Thanks to Ben Barnhart for many of the images on this site.
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