Do you realize that course design can make a positive difference in the classroom and co-curricular experiences of students with disabilities? Wondering how to shift away from relying on individual accommodation letters to more inclusive approaches? Universal Design for Learning (UDL) offers a framework for designing courses and activities that fully enables all students, regardless of ability, to engage substantively in their learning and demonstrate their knowledge.

The conference includes keynote speaker Wolfram Schultz, Cambridge University, and alumni speaker Graeme Davis. 

“Dave Burrell crams a century of jazz history into every chugging stride episode and churning dissonance,” writes Francis Davis in The Village Voice.   “Encyclopedic as well as eccentric, he’s a living treasure.”

Experience the vast educational, cultural and environmental diversity of the United States, Puerto Rico, Guam or the U.S. Virgin Islands for a semester or year.

The UMass Amherst Libraries host “Of Our Spiritual Strivings: W.E.B. Du Bois at 150” in the W. E. B. Du Bois Library, both on the Lower Level and in Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA), on Floor 25.

Hambrecht is a painter working across media, specifically pen, embroidery and paint; she considers a visual language that investigates the inconsistency of time through space.

A BFA thesis exhibition, "Origins: It Feels Different With You Here," created by senior Eva Lin Fahey, who is currently pursuing a degree in painting with a art history minor, consists of abstracted spaces that create both intimacy with the viewer and self-reflective environments, focusing on the concept of consanguinity and personal origin.