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Career Services will be holding virtual workshops on Wednesday, March 22 for BDIC students on Handshake:
Where are the internships? 4pm
Where are the jobs? 5pm
Want to design your own major?
Meet with a peer advisor or BDIC academic advisor to discover if BDIC can help you achieve your academic goals.
Find out more: BDIC Fall Majors Week Info...
One of the poems often recited or referred to at commencements is Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken,” with special emphasis on the final lines: “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I/I took the road...
BDIC Alumnus Greg Smokler '03 wins Academy Award for: SCIENTIFIC & TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENTS, on February 13, 2021
Awarded to: Nicolaas Verheem, Greg Smokler and Ilya Issenin for the development of...
Homecoming 2021
Class of 1970 Celebration Toast & Trivia Night
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BDIC Peer Advisors are a team of undergraduate student advisors who work collaboratively to provide skilled guidance and support for fulfilling the BDIC curriculum requirements along your academic...
Congratulations to each of you in the BDIC Class of 2020. Each of you includes you the students of BDIC, but also congratulations to your families, friends, and colleagues. We know that they have...
Faculty, staff, students and alumni will mix and mingle for the first of three events celebrating 50 years of Bachelor's Degree with Individual Concentration! Current majors will present posters...
Bachelor's Degree with Individual Concentration will be offering a diverse array of classs online for Spring 2020! In addition to student favorites like The Paranormal: Ways of Thinking About the...
The department is proud to announce that our fall 2022 junior year
writing course will be taught by award winning author Molly B. Burnham.
A native of Washington DC, Molly grew up in the early...
Yulia Suvorova ’20, Sustainable Fashion
Suvorova’s mother taught her how to sew when she was young, and Yulia immediately developed a love for creating clothing. When she applied to colleges, the...
Julie Mahdavi recently earned her master’s degree in fashion studies at Parsons, The New School for Design, in New York City. Her graduate research included issues surrounding faith-based dress when...
Alex Bienvenue, Viticulture and Oenology, has accepted a position as vineyard manager at Thousand Islands Winery in Alexandria Bay, New York. He is also featured in the alumni section.
Eli Briskin,...
Dempsey Award: The Dempsey Award was established many years ago by BDIC alumnus, John Dempsey, for the purpose of enhancing the scope of BDIC students’ educational experiences. The awards are made on...
Check out this article by Machaela Johnston about our savvy BDIC students and their new startup!
http://dailyfreepress.com/2016/03/24/feat-socks-boston-startup/
Will Sylvester graduated with a BDIC Concentration in Cultural and Social Filmmaking in 2011. Listen to what he has to say about how BDIC prepared him!
http://bcove.me/f046a1n7
On October 21st, 2015, BDIC sponsored a lecture by two UMass Amherst graduates who shared their stories with BDIC students. Kate Cessna, 2008, and Erica Mattison, 2003, are both currently practicing...
MassLive reports on the entrepreneurship conference that was held in Springfield, MA on November 7, 2014. Three BDIC students highlighted their company, Feat Socks. Owners Stephen Chan (BDIC,...
Peter DiGiammarino '75, a BDIC alumnus and Commonwealth Honors College Advisory Board member was interviewed on October 14th for the radio show Critical Mass, geared to providing peer-level learning...