In accordance with Massachusetts regulations, strict restrictions are in effect for in-person campus events. Most of the the events listed here are taking place remotely on Zoom and other online platforms. See each listing for details. All times are United States Eastern Time Zone.
Month of April 2019
This is a weekly drop-in group for students who are coming out as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex, or asexual and for students who are already out and looking for a place of support to talk about being LGBTQIA+.
September 5—April 24, 2019, Wednesdays 6:30 pm-8:00 pm
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November 21, December 19—January 16, March 13
Wilder Hall, 102

Through Domestic Exchange, UMass students can study at another college or university, allowing them to live in another geographic area, access courses and facilities not offered at their home campus, and broaden their undergraduate experience.
October 17—May 1, 2019, Wednesdays 4:45 pm
October 18—April 26, 2019, Thu/Fri 2:30 pm
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March 13—March 15
Goodell Hall, 511

Through the group, members will be able to:✓ share concerns and life experiences in a safe environment✓ feel more connected to others✓ hear diverse perspectives from peers✓ explore issues related to being male-identified
January 22—May 3, 2019, Fridays 1:00 pm-2:15 pm
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March 15
Middlesex House

Enjoy great conversation over free coffee, tea and tasty snacks!
January 23, 2019 4:00 pm-5:00 pm
February 5, 2019 4:00 pm-5:00 pm
February 21, 2019 4:00 pm-5:00 pm
March 4, 2019 4:00 pm-5:00 pm
March 22, 2019 4:00 pm-5:00 pm
April 3, 2019 4:00 pm-5:00 pm
April 16, 2019 4:00 pm-5:00 pm
April 29, 2019 4:00 pm-5:00 pm
Campus Center, Blue Wall (Light Court)

When something’s bothering you, talking about it is often the first step toward a solution.
January 30, 2019 4:00 pm-5:00 pm
February 12, 2019 4:00 pm-5:00 pm
February 28, 2019 4:00 pm-5:00 pm
March 11, 2019 4:00 pm-5:00 pm
March 29, 2019 4:00 pm-5:00 pm
April 10, 2019 4:00 pm-5:00 pm
April 23, 2019 4:00 pm-5:00 pm
May 6, 2019 4:00 pm-5:00 pm
International Programs Office, Room 310, Conference Room

Hear from inspiring teachers. Connect with others interested in education. Get involved in service and teaching opportunities. Come join the Education Club at UMass to connect with others passionate about education!
January 30—May 1, 2019, Wednesdays 6:45 pm-8:00 pm
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February 13, March 13, April 10
Furcolo Hall, 102

A leading figure in the art world for four decades, Terry Winters became well-known in the 1980s for his materially-conscious drawings, prints and paintings.
January 31—April 26, 2019, Tue/Wed/Thu/Fri 11:00 am-4:30 pm
February 1—April 28, 2019, weekends 2:00 pm-5:00 pm
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February 18, March 9—March 17, April 15
University Museum of Contemporary Art, 33

Xylor Jane’s hypnotic paintings are rooted in mathematical concepts, numerology, and love.
January 31—April 26, 2019, Tue/Wed/Thu/Fri 11:00 am-4:30 pm
February 2—April 28, 2019, weekends 2:00 pm-5:00 pm
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February 18, March 9—March 17, April 15
University Museum of Contemporary Art, 33

¿Cómo se dice? is a student development program that seeks to examine Spanish idioms in relation to cultural of origin and current experienes within the Diaspora.
February 20, 2019 5:00 pm-6:00 pm
March 6, 2019 5:00 pm-6:00 pm
March 20, 2019 5:00 pm-6:00 pm
April 3, 2019 5:00 pm-6:00 pm
April 17, 2019 5:00 pm-6:00 pm
Latin American Cultural Center, Hampden DC 2nd floor

Members of the campus community are invited to attend one of several open forums on the university’s new information privacy framework and provide critical feedback as a new privacy policy undergoes vetting on campus in 2019.
February 25, 2019 10:00 am-11:00 am
March 18, 2019 2:00 pm-3:00 pm
April 25, 2019 3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Campus Center, 162-75

Angela Zammarelli’s work lives at an intersection of fantasy and reality. By using play in a broad context, she asks how fantastical elements call upon reality to give them meaning, and how observations in reality can slip into the fantastical through certain framing.
March 4—June 1, 2019, weekdays 8:00 am-5:00 pm
March 4—June 1, 2019, Saturdays 9:00 am-12:00 pm
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May 27
UMassFive College Federal Credit Union

The University Museum of Contemporary Art presents its Twelfth Annual Curatorial Fellowship Exhibition, What’s So Funny? How Humor Makes Us Think.
March 21—April 26, 2019, Tue/Wed/Thu/Fri 11:00 am-4:30 pm
March 23—April 28, 2019, weekends 2:00 pm-5:00 pm
April 4, 2019 11:00 am-8:00 pm
University Museum of Contemporary Art, 33

The University Museum of Contemporary Art (UMCA) is pleased to present Art + Math =, an afternoon Symposium in conjunction with a yearlong series of exhibitions about the intersection of art and math, including: Xylor Jane Counterclockwise; Terry Winters: Facts and Fictions; The Concinnitas Portfolio, curated by Daniel Rockmore; and Pau Atela’s (Re)Creations and MathStudio.
April 1, 2019
1:00 pm-5:30 pm
Olver Design Building, 170

The School of Public Health and Health Sciences will hold its 22nd Annual Research Day on Tuesday, April 2. The School holds this event annually as an opportunity for faculty, staff, and students within the School and across the university, along with interested members from our community, to learn more about the research, instruction and outreach conducted by its students.
April 2, 2019
2:00 pm-5:00 pm
Campus Center, Auditorium

This two-part workshop will help participants understand the concepts of implicit bias, microaggressions, and stereotype threat, how these can manifest, and how they impact learning environments. Participants will also explore strategies to effectively respond to microaggressions. Part 1 Location: Campus Center 805-09Part 2 Location: Campus Center 804-08
April 2, 2019 2:30 pm-4:00 pm
April 9, 2019 2:30 pm-4:00 pm
Campus Center, 805-09

One of the greatest American screenwriters, Ben Hecht was a renaissance man of dazzling sorts—reporter, novelist, playwright, crusader for the imperiled Jews of Hitler’s Europe, and propagandist for pre-1948 Palestine’s Jewish terrorist underground.
April 2, 2019
4:00 pm
Integrative Learning Center, S131

On Equal Pay Day, participate in our webinar on salary negotiation strategies for women to expand your knowledge about the gender pay gap and how you can improve your earning potential. Learn proven techniques that you can put into action to navigate the entire salary negotiation process and achieve results.
April 2, 2019
7:00 pm-8:00 pm
Online

The Art + Math = symposium (April 1) will end with a free, public music performance on Tuesday, April 2 — Art + Math = Music — featuring UMass Department of Music and Dance faculty percussionist Ayano Kataoka and electronic artist Jazer Giles, at 7:30 p.m.
April 2, 2019
7:30 pm
Fine Arts Center Bezanson Recital Hall

We Bring Our Lares With Us:The works in We Bring Our Lares With Us illustrate the connections between time, place, and memory, and, through our embodied experiences with each, we can then perceive a merging of past, present, future.
April 4—April 12, 2019, weekdays 11:00 am-4:00 pm
April 7—April 14, 2019, Sundays 1:00 pm-4:00 pm
Herter Art Gallery

A panel of faculty from on and off campus will reflect on the consequences of dehumanization and the ways in which it can make Muslims vulnerable to violent attacks. This Teach-in will provide the context we need to understand the world around us and the importance of a commitment to fight hate and intolerance in all forms.
April 3, 2019
5:00 pm
Goodell Hall, Bernie Dallas Room

SES and Farm to Institution New England are partnering to present the 2019 Food Systems Career Networking Event. This event is a unique opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students from UMass and other universities to connect with professionals working across the food system.
April 4, 2019
2:00 pm-4:00 pm
Campus Center

Created through interviews with the citizens of Reading, PA, Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Sweat deftly and unflinchingly examines the complicated ways race, class, and gender intersect in a struggling factory town.
April 4—April 6, 2019 7:30 pm
April 11—April 13, 2019 7:30 pm
April 6—April 13, 2019, Sundays 2:00 pm
Curtain Theater

Toxic Ivory Towers is the first book to take a look at the institutional factors impacting the ability of underrepresented minority faculty to be successful at their jobs, and to flourish in academia. In this public lecture, Dr. Ruth Zambrana will address topics covered in her book.
April 4, 2019
4:00 pm
Integrative Learning Center, S131

Topics covered will include: the basics of planting fruit trees including site selection, choice of variety and rootstock, planting best practices, tree training and pruning, fertilization and ongoing fruit tree care. (In-depth pest management will be covered in the afternoon session.)
April 6, 2019
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Red Apple Farm

No one is perfect all of the time- even when placed in a leadership position and expected to make tough and significant decisions. Join this session to understand the way that you process feedback and learn strategies to make the most of the feedback that you receive to achieve your goals.
April 6, 2019
10:00 am-12:00 pm
New Africa House, 203

UMass Dining has raised over $39,000 for the Survival Center over the course of the last few years thanks to your help, and our goal is to raise more than $7,000 this year! Register today and help UMass Dining and the ASC reach our goal to help our neighbors in need.
April 6, 2019
11:00 am
Southwest Residential Area

Screenings in the Old Chapel of three films that will be introduced and discussed by Dr. Judith Weisenfeld, author of Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Relgion in American Film, 1929-1949 (2007), followed by a public lecture on her award winning book, New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity During the Great Migration (2016).
April 7—April 8, 2019
Old Chapel

Barbara Ellmann's large grids of encaustic paintings explore the way that we process and catalogue our visual experience of space/place by using varying degrees of abstraction and kinetic juxtapositions of form, color, and pattern to suggest fleeting impressions, connections, and memories.
April 7, 2019
2:00 pm-4:00 pm
Hampden Gallery

In celebration of National Poetry Month, poet and translator Peter Cole will read some of his poetry, including “A Winters Trail,” inspired by the art of artist Terry Winters, whose work is currently on view in the exhibition Terry Winters: Facts and Fictions.
April 8, 2019
6:00 pm
Fine Arts Center, Lobby

MacArthur award-winning poet and translator Peter Cole leads a master class on the translation of poetry and the poetry of translation. Cole illustrates the central place translation holds in our lives and the ways in which it can come to inform both our experience of the world and the making of poems.
April 9, 2019
10:00 am-11:30 am
Emily Dickinson Museum

Associate Professor Laura Valdiviezo, director of the Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies, will discuss language, status, stigma and the paradox of bilingualism at the Enduring Racism Speaker Series 2019.
April 9, 2019
12:30 pm-1:45 pm
Holyoke Community College Public Humanities Center

Are you having trouble with Mendeley (and we don’t mean a room service dispute with a Las Vegas casino)? Drop by the Science and Engineering Library where Mendeley experts can solve whatever challenge you have.
April 10, 2019 12:00 pm-1:30 pm
April 10, 2019 5:30 pm-7:00 pm
Science and Engineering Library, Floor 3 Conference Room

Interested in teaching English or conducting post-graduate research in France on a Fulbright grant next year? Come to the Fulbright France Info Session, led by a French Fulbright Commission advisor, to find out how to apply.
April 11, 2019
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Commonwealth Honors College, 301, 3rd floor

Students and teachers from area local public schools will show their work in a collaborative exhibit organized by the Department of Art at UMass Amherst. This unique exhibit, New Visions, affords the public a window to see the work of K-12 students and their BFA student teachers or MA-Art Ed teachers displaying the multiple ways artists learn and create.
April 11—April 16, 2019 11:00 am-4:00 pm
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April 14
Studio Arts Building, Lee Edwards Gallery

This roundtable features three leading scholars of hate crime, the First Amendment, and law and politics as they discuss their diverse perspectives on rights and responsibilities in a campus community, with the goal of better understanding how to balance this delicate tension.
April 12, 2019
11:30 am-1:00 pm
Integrative Learning Center, S350

Since the 1960s, the most profound and consequential change in the global economy has been the resurgence of Asia, first with the Japanese, East Asian and South East Asian miracles in quick succession followed by perhaps the even more consequential rise of the two giants: China and India.
April 13, 2019 9:00 am-5:30 pm
April 14, 2019 9:00 am-2:30 pm
Gordon Hall, 3rd Floor, Conference Room.

The Office of Research in the College of Nursing is pleased to present the next talk in its 2019 Spring Seminar Series, "Analysis of Restricted Mean Survival Time for Length-Biased Data", to be given by Chi Hyun Lee, Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
April 16, 2019
12:00 pm-1:00 pm
Skinner Hall, 101

Ileana Vasu, Mathematics, Holyoke Community College. The Holyoke Community College (HCC) STEM Scholars Program has as its goals to recruit, retain, and encourage academically talented, financially needy, and underrepresented STEM students to complete their degrees, and continue their education.
April 16, 2019
5:00 pm
Hasbrouck Hall, 242

The HFA Student Leadership Board presents the HFA Student Showcase – a platform for all majors to display their creative work! Most mediums are accepted; in the past there has been art, short stories, photography, and spoken word, among others.
April 17, 2019
11:30 am-4:30 pm
Fine Arts Center, Atrium

Sharp, funny, and searing, Baltimore is about racism on college campuses and how we learn to talk to each other. Join us for a play that sparks a timely conversation.
April 17—April 18, 2019 7:30 pm-8:30 pm
April 24—April 25, 2019 7:30 pm-8:30 pm
April 27, 2019 2:00 pm-3:00 pm
New Africa House, Theater

Interested in law school? Come talk with Professor Katie Young about her new book How to Sort of be Happy in Law School and learn how to approach law school on your own terms: how to tune out the drumbeat of oppressive expectations and conventional wisdom to create a new breed of law school experience altogether.
April 17, 2019
6:00 pm
Herter Hall, 601

Each year, UMass Amherst holds a festival where various sustainability-related organizations on campus and in the greater Pioneer Valley showcase the awesome projects they are working on to make our community more socially, economically, and environmentally just!
April 18, 2019
12:00 pm-4:00 pm
Goodell Hall, Lawn

In honor of Chancellor Randolph Bromery, this event aims to encourage interdiscplinary collaboration, reflect on his legacy of championing diversity within STEM fields, and provide perspectives from diverse academic fields to help us understand the urgency of considering Environmental Justice as central to both Geosciences and Black Studies.
April 18, 2019
5:00 pm-7:00 pm
Life Science Lab, Rm 330

Alex Huckstepp, VP of Business Development at Digital Alloys, will be presenting their metal "Joule Printing" technology. It's a wire-fed printing technique that uses resistance heating and can deposit material at a very high rate with very low energy input.
April 19, 2019
12:00 pm-1:00 pm
Life Science Laboratories, N610

Every year, The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans supports 30 New Americans, immigrants, or the children of immigrants, who are pursuing full-time graduate degrees in the US. Learn about this post-graduate fellowship for the 2020-2021 academic year. Applications are open in April 2019.
April 23, 2019
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Commonwealth Honors College, 301, 3rd floor

The annual Data Science Research Symposium brings together data science researchers across industry and academia to showcase research collaborations, encourage technical exchange and professional networking, and facilitate new efforts to tackle emerging challenges.
April 24, 2019
9:00 am-5:00 pm
Campus Center, Auditorium

The Jones Library in Amherst is proud to announce that the Sixth Annual Samuel Minot Jones Awards for Literary Achievement — the Sammys — will honor poet Richard Michelson and The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. A special Centennial Sammy will be given to author Bruce Watson.
April 25, 2019
6:00 pm-9:00 pm
Converse Hall at Amherst College

Commonwealth Honors College hosts the 25th Massachusetts Undergraduate Research Conference with more than than 1,200 students from 24 Massachusetts public higher education institutions exhibiting their findings in fields ranging from art history to public health to veterinary science.
April 26, 2019
8:00 am-5:30 pm
Campus Center

Jerusalem, We Are Here is an interactive documentary that digitally brings Palestinians back into the Jerusalem neighborhoods from which they were expelled in 1948. Director Dorit Naaman will guide a virtual tour of Palestinian Jerusalem, weaving together pre-1948 memories and documents, with contemporary space politics.
April 26, 2019
4:30 pm
Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, event hall

Chorale repertoire includes Abbie Betinis' Lumen, Alessandro Scarlatti's Exultate Deo, Craig Hella Johnson's choral arrangement of Eliza Gilkyson's Requiem and spirituals by Moses Hogan: Hear My Prayer and William Dawson: Ain'a That Good News Opera Workshop students perform famous ensemble arias from Bizet's Carmen, Rossini's La Cenerentola, Puccini's La Bohème, Verdi's Falstaff, Strauss' Die Fledermaus and others
April 28, 2019
5:00 pm
First Congregational Church
