University of Massachusetts Amherst

March 27, 2009

Mini-Writing Retreat for Faculty
The Office of Faculty Development will hold monthly mini-writing retreats for all faculty.
Lecture: Competing Globally, Allying Locally
Prof. Mohan Subramaniam from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College will be the guest speaker at this week's Marketing Seminar.
Lecture: Supply Chain Disruptions
Professor June Qiong Dong '94 PhD of the State University of New York at Oswego will deliver this lecture as part of the Spring 2009 Operations Research / Management Science Seminar series.
BDIC Information Session
An information session on creating your own major through interdisciplinary studies.
Finance Lecture with Prof. Anurag Gupta of Case Western
Professor Anurag Gupta of the Case Western Reserve University will be the guest speaker at this week's Finance Seminar.
Emergent Research Colloquium #3
"Astro-Blues and Cosmo-Spirituals: Sun Ra the Traditionalist", an essay by Jim Carroll.
Talk: FDIC Chair Sheila Bair
FDIC Chair Sheila Bair will speak on the mortgage crisis and its implications for financial regulatory policy.
Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood
Join us for the Valley premiere of the Media Education Foundation's powerful new film Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood.
Late Night Movies: Twilight
This week's Late Night Movie is Twilight, the love story of the high school girl Bella and the dark and mysterious vampire Edward.
Trinity Irish Dance
This event has been canceled.
Softball vs. St. Bonaventure
Head coach Elaine Sortino leads the University of Massachusetts softball team into action against St. Bonaventure.
Exhibit: Natural History Prints
An exhibit of photographs by John Green consisting of 14 photographic prints taken with a film camera using natural light.
Exhibit: New WORLD Theater's 30th Anniversary: A Retrospective Exhibit
The exhibit commemorates 30 years of New WORLD Theater’s unique contributions to the campus and the surrounding Pioneer Valley as an innovative cultural institution dedicated to presenting and producing theatrical works by artists of color.
Exhibit: Sheron Rupp: Dialogue with a Collection
The University Gallery presents "Sheron Rupp: Dialogue with a Collection," in which we invited photographer Sheron Rupp to curate an exhibition from our holdings and to integrate their own works in direct dialogue within the exhibition.
Exhibit: Miroslaw Balka: Gravity
The University Gallery is pleased to premiere recent video works by the internationally acclaimed Polish artist Miroslaw Balka.