• Chancellor Inaugurated
  • An anthropology class in bizarre foods dispels cultural biases
  • Rising Researchers
  • Sorry, Wrong Numbers
  • Curious About Campus

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The Boston Globe celebrates UMass sesquicentennial.

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Join in this annual end-of-year celebration, May 1.

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Featuring Puccini's Gianni Schicchi and Verdi's La Traviata, Act 1, Apr. 30-May 1.

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Chancellor Inaugurated

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Chancellor Inaugurated

UMass at 150

The Boston Globe celebrates UMass sesquicentennial.

Rising Researchers

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Rising Researchers

Fried Grasshoppers, Anyone?

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An anthropology class in bizarre foods dispels cultural biases

Curious About Campus

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Curious About Campus

Our Sesquicentennial

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Team-Based Learning

A renewed commitment by campus leaders to pedagogy has fueled a pilot project in which 30 faculty members have revamped their roles and now use team-based learning for their courses. For the last three semesters, a 54-seat classroom in Goodell and a 90-seat one in the W.E.B. Du Bois Library have served as incubators for the experiment. So far, the experiment has met with rave reviews and five more team-based classrooms are planned for an academic facility under construction on North Pleasant Street.

Henry Gets Moving

As UMass Amherst tennis players Julia Comas and Gianna Francis read a book about a character who transforms from couch potato to a road race winner, the children in a Head Start classroom in Holyoke, Mass., sat spellbound. Comas and Francis read Henry Gets Moving, which is written in English and Spanish by Pierre Rouzier, a physician at University Health Services, and Chaz Nielsen ’06.

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The 36-hour event launched at noon on Founders Day, April 29, as the campus kicked off its 150th birthday celebration.
Thousands of students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends attended festivities marking Founders Day on the UMass Amherst campus on the150th anniversary of the signing of the campus charter. Among the highlights was the ceremonial cutting of a 150-pound birthday cake created in the shape of the university’s iconic Old Chapel.