The UMass Amherst Libraries host “Color Woodblock Prints,” an exhibition by Linda Mahoney ’79.

The Zube Lecture Series, named for former department head of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning Ervin Zube, continues to enrich our community with the thoughts and works of local, national and international academic and professional leaders.

“Emancipating the Past: Kara Walker's Tale of Slavery and Power” from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation.

The Humanities and Fine Arts Student Leadership Board plan field trips and events, and does fun activities.

Learn about keeping yourself, your friends, family, pets, and the community safe with the UMass Medical Reserve Corps (MRC). 

First-Years and Seniors: Have a chance to win one of 175 prizes by completing the National Survey of Student Engagement.

Using textile techniques such as knitting, weaving, and embroidery, Jenine Shereos explores a dialog with the natural world in which threads interact with the landscape or the architecture surrounding it.

Represent UMass Amherst to new and returning students during move-in.

Help current and future alumni land their dream job by participating in our job posting blitz.

Join MaryBeth Kimball, Director of New Business Development & Recruitment for Professional Programs, for an overview of Isenberg's Online MBA admissions process, curriculum overview, and student experience.

This presentation examines common sense ideas of modernity in Ghanaian popular culture.

Studying abroad is an incredible opportunity to see the world, experience new cultures and broaden your perspectives while staying inline with your degree. IPO at UMass Amherst offers over 450 study abroad programs all around. Come and learn how you can study abroad during your time at UMass.  

Join Agustin Lao-Montes (UMass), Oscar Fernandez (University of Havana), Anamary Maqueira (UMass) and Jorge Quesada (UMass) as they debate Cuban Reforms.

Join MaryBeth Kimball, Director of New Business Development and Recruitment for Professional Programs at the Boston Campus, for an in-person event to learn more about the Isenberg MBA.

Come support your Minutemen as they take on Richmond at the Mullins Center.

Hong Yu presents on developing NoteAid, a multi-component, natural language processing (NLP) system that translates medical jargon into lay terms and provides definitions and links to related educational material from trusted resources. 

Valerie Young, internationally-known expert and author on impostor syndrome, will lead an interactive workshop on how to mitigate [your own] impostor feelings in yourself or others, recognize and address it in the classroom, and work to positively affect changes in academic culture that can fuel self-doubt in students and faculty. 

In this lecture, Miriam Ticktin, associate professor of Anthropology and Co-Director of Zolberg Institute for Migration and Mobility, The New School, is concerned by the ways in which border walls and zones come not simply to defend (i.e. certain territories), but to define  -- that is, to shape or alter categories of natural and human kinds. 

The focus of this workshop is reflective writing, group discussion and practical steps to support career exploration. The group is led by contemplative career coach and mindfulness teacher Jennifer Earls, M.Ed., Dance with Life Consulting. 

The goal of the conference is to explore the possible intersections (and divergences) regarding cultural, political, and theoretical interventions by different minorities into German public and political discourses on memory, racism, citizenship, immigration and history. 

Enjoy great conversation with students and UMass community members over free coffee, tea and tasty snacks.

Join fellow architecture and design alumni and friends in celebrating our new home, the Design Building.

Get ready for Spring Break with some Tumbler decorating, another screening of “Moana,” pizza and much more.

The Department of Music and Dance present the UMass Flute Ensemble, directed by Cobus du Toit.

Come learn how to properly prune your fruit trees.  Participants will have the opportunity to conduct actual pruning and gain both experience and confidence in pruning apple trees in order to produce a bountiful crop.

The Department of Music and Dance presents the Recital Choir, conducted by Eric Berthiaume (graduate recital).

Zoe Vandermeer will perform a program titled “Sweeter than Roses, the Music of 17th Century England.” 

The OGJB Quartet is an all-star ensemble: Oliver Lake, sax; Graham Haynes, cornet; Joe Fonda, bass;and Barry Altschul, drums. A rare chance to hear these world-class improvisers for free.

The School of Public Policy (SPP) will kick off its Spring 2017 Faculty Colloquium series with a talk by Meredith Rolfe, associate professor of political science.

The Department of Music and Dance presents a Symphony Band Performance: “Ceremonies,” conducted by Matthew Westgate.

This 3-hour reading series explores the represnetation of the black body in literature by writers from the Global South.

The University Women's Network (UWN) is presenting “Safety on Campus.” 

Karma Chávez, will present on the election of President Trump as it relates to undocumented immigrant students.

Join us and those across the globe, nation and local community in celebration of women's achievements for International Women's Day.

To kick off Patagonia's Worn Wear College Tour at UMass Amherst, we will be screening “The True Cost,” a documentary film about about the clothes we wear, the people who make them and the impact the industry is having on our world.

Open Call for Art Submissions for exhibit to be held during the week of April 3. Deadline for submissions is March 14 at 5 p.m.

Patagonia's Worn Wear College Tour will be traveling to college campuses around the country and tell the story of the Student-Led Zero Waste Movement, highlighting campuses that are leaders in sustainability and zero-waste initiatives.

Alex Bryan of the USGS and the NE CSC will talk about “A Sticky Situation: When Maple Syrup Producers Receive Conflicting Guidance from Different Climate Models.”

Speakers will discuss foreign policy under the Trump administration. 

Join MaryBeth Kimball, Director of New Business Development and Recruitment for Professional Programs at the Shrewsbury Campus for an in-person event.

The Department of Music and Dance, in association with the Interdepartmental Program in Film Studies and the Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival, presents the UMass Amherst Symphony Orchestra performance of  “Decasia,” conducted by Ng Tian Hui.

Bryan Harvey, associate chancellor and chief planning officer, will make a presentation on “Demographics of College Age Population.”

The Department of Music and Dance presents the 36th Annual Jazz Showcase Concert, coordinated by Jeffrey W. Holmes.

Wes Autio will present a hands-on workshop on ‘bench grafting’ and ‘cleft grafting’ of apple trees.  Other grafting techniques will be discussed.  

Spring recess begins.

Join alumni and friends for a tasty BBQ and great baseball at Jet Blue Park; an incredible replica of Fenway Park on a smaller scale.

Men's Lacrosse vs. UMass Lowell

Adam Hall of UMass Amherst will teach a class that will explore some of the central ideas of Renaissance Humanism and will include reading “Romeo and Juliet” as a class in depth.

WWE is making its Amherst debut at Mullins Center this March with WWE LIVE ROAD TO WRESTLEMANIA! Experience the live action thrill up close and in person as WWE makes one of its final stops in Amherst before Wrestlemania 33.

This event is being postponed until the fall.

This event is sold out. Bring your family and friends to join the Greater Boston Alumni Network to cheer on the Boston Celtics as they take on the Washington Wizards at TD Garden.

Jon Woodruff, associate professor, Department of Geosciences, presents his talk titled “Depositional Evidence of Severe Typhoons and Tsunamis from Kyushu and Shikoku, Japan.”

This program will benefit participants interested in learning more about Islam and Islamophobia while highlighting what we can do to confront challenges we face in the months and years ahead.

The Community, Climate, and Social Justice Committee presents a free screening followed by a panel-led discussion of “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry,” the feminist revolution that shaped our world today.

David Gruender of the Boston Symphony Orchestra will be presenting a Renaissance Wednesday Lecture titled “Music Printing in Elizabethan England: Madrigals and Ayres from Thomas Tallis and William Byrd to Thomas Morley.”

The Interdisciplinary Studies Institute (ISI) is delighted to welcome Daniel Kanstroom as our distinguished Resident for 2016-17.  Professor Kanstroom will deliver a public lecture entitled ‘Global Deportation: The Rise of a Dangerous New Phenomenon.’

A debate hosted by the University Union, student run debate club.

This event provides an opportunity to look for employment, network, ask questions and make connections for practica, internships and career opportunities.

Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances, The 11th Annual Writer in Residence Lecture featuring Allyson Hobbs has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience. In this talk, Hobbs argues that the national fraternity of American motorists excluded African Americans during the early to mid-20th century despite the ostensibly democratic nature of the “open road.” Providing a textured account of the emotional lives of black drivers including the sense of pride, the seduction, and the exhilaration that owning a car offered, this talk also considers the fears and anxieties that arose once African Americans motorists got behind the wheel.

Come and learn about a Nipmuc perspective on what it means to be a Water Protector, Past, Present and Future.

A workshop featuring Don Ogden, author of Bad Atmosphere. A free copy of Ogden’s book will be given to the first 20 participants to arrive.

7 Doigts invites you into their kitchen for this multi-sensory marvel.

Come learn about CICS’s new graduate certificate program in Information Security Management.

The Graduate School is hosting its inaugural Three Minute Thesis Competition (3MT).

UPC will be showing the movie Moonlight.

This workshop will provide information on all types of raspberries and an opportunity for hands-on pruning for participants to gain confidence in pruning their own plants at home.

Softball vs. St. Bonaventure (DH)

Women's Lacrosse vs. Marist

The Department of Music and Dance presents the Saxophone Symposium Concert II,  featuring guest artist, Arno Bornkamp presenting Bach in Beeld, his solo saxophone Bach arrangements with video projections.

This information session will cover FAQ's about the admissions process, curriculum overview and student experience.

In 23/7, legal scholar Keramet Reiter tells the history of an original "supermax," California's Pelican Bay State Prison, where extreme conditions sparked statewide hunger strikes in 2011 and 2013—the latter involving nearly 30,000 prisoners.

The English Department is pleased to announce its 2017 Troy Lecture featuring playwright, actor and professor Anna Deavere Smith.

The Magic Triangle Jazz Series continues its 28th season with a performance by Mary Halvorson’s Reverse Blue, featuring Mary Halvorson, guitar, Chris Speed, saxophone, clarinet, Eivind Opsvik, bass and Tomas Fujiwara, drums.

Do gender dynamics drive drive women away from science?  Does studying science put women on equal footing with men? What roadblocks do women scientists face in promotion in academia? Join us in discussing these and many other issues for women in science as we celebrate the release of Pathways, Potholes, and the Persistence of Women in Science: Reconsidering the Pipeline, written by 21 scholars and edited by faculty advisor to the chancellor for diversity and and inclusive excellence Enobong (Anna) Branch.

Baseball vs. Northeastern 

Join MaryBeth Kimball, Director of New Business Development and Recruitment for Professional Programs at the Springfield Campus for an in-person event.

Practical informational sessions on accommodating students and staff on campus.

Toni Lyn Morelli of the USGS and the NE CSC will speak about "Using decision tools to assess vulnerability and inform management of the wildlife in the Northeast".

Jim Freeman of UMass Amherst will be presenting a Renaissance Wednesday Lecture titled “The Angel of Hadley.” 

The Department of Music and Dance presents the All-University Orchestra, conducted by Ng Tian Hui.

New works are the lifeblood of the American theater.

Manuel Pastor presents his talk titled “Progressive Economics, Metro Strategies, and Social Movements in Uncertain Times.”  

UMass hosts VCU in the A-10 opener.

The Department of Music and Dance presents a Guest Artist Concert featuring David Shifrin, clarinet, with Gilles Vonsattel, piano and Romie de Guise-Langlois, clarinet

Visiting Writers Series presents emerging and established writers of poetry, fiction and non-fiction.

The UMass Student Chapter of INFORMS hosts a talk by Özlem Ergun, professor, mechanical and industrial engineering, Northeastern University.

The Scandinavian Studies program will hold an interdisciplinary two-day symposium with guest scholars from the U.S. and Scandinavia, who will address the topic “Managing Multicultural Scandinavia.”  

Come celebrate Shabbat and Jewish life at UMass with Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy.