Join the W. E. B. Du Bois Center for a weekly light breakfast and discussion of a text by or about Du Bois. All are welcome.

View a showcase of information about the Institute for Applied Life Sciences (IALS): research, services, artistic images, and materials generated by their work, featuring UMass Core Facilities, IALS centers—Bioactive Delivery, Personalized Health Monitoring, and Models to Medicine—as well as IALS innovation services, the core summer internship program, and a Building Bridges collaboration. New items will be added throughout the semester.

Have a question for law enforcement? Ask Amherst Police Officer Bill Laramee and UMass Police Officer Mark Whelihan at Coffee with a Cop.

For more than forty years, American artist Roni Horn has developed a richly diverse practice that spans drawing, sculpture, photography, installation, and books.

In this Dialogue with a Collection exhibition, Procheta Mukherjee Olson explores the multiple ways in which her work parallels the formal and conceptual concerns of Yun Fei Ji’s “Three Gorges Dam Migration” (2002).

Converstion hour in Portuguese

All members of the UMass Amherst community are invited to submit edible book-inspired creations which will then be displayed, judged, and eaten.

The SFJAZZ Collective concludes their national tour and 50th anniversary celebration of two albums from 1969: In A Silent Way, regarded as Miles Davis' most influential work, and Stand by Sly and The Family Stone, deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."

The Northeastern Regional meeting of the Society for Developmental Biology, to be held at the Marine Biological Labs in Woods Hole, Mass.

In the job market? Need to figure out which companies are best for you? Do you have some leads, but want to impress interviewers with your knowledge of the company? You can learn a lot about companies using Library resources.

The Sensorial Regime of “Second Slavery”Landscape of Enslavement in the Paraíba Valley (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

UMass Men's Lax takes on Hofstra at Garber Field

If you have legal questions about your research or study, from publishing contracts, to threats of defamation or "ag gag" laws, to privacy concerns, come on down. We won't give you legal advice, but we can try to help you sort out the issues and figure out whether you need a lawyer or whether you can relax.

Come hold history in your hands, and encounter W.  E. B. Du Bois through his voluminous archive housed in the UMass Amherst Libraries’ Special Collections. 

Landscape and Infrastructure: reimagining the pastoral paradigm  Meg Vickery Lecturer, Department of Art History, UMass Amherst  “Landscape and Infrastructure: Re-Imagining the Pastoral Paradigm for the Twenty-first Century” is about landscape painting and design in the Netherlands, England, and North America and recent infrastructure projects around the globe.

Historical data sources like maps and aerial photos can be treasure troves for GIS users, especially if they want to map how the world used to look before modern infrastructure was built, or before natural events altered the course of rivers or changed where people could live. This workshop focuses on two sources of historical GIS data: maps and photos.

Wes Autio will present a hands-on workshop on “bench grafting” and “cleft grafting” of apple trees.

Evoking mythography and ancestry, Let the Crows Come depicts crows as messengers for the living and guides for the departed.

Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) is a free, unique, persistent, and universal digital identifier.

Caroline H. Yang is an assistant professor of English at UMass. She is the author of The Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery: The Chinese Worker and the Minstrel Form, which examines the intersecting histories of blackface minstrelsy and representations of Chinese workers in U.S. literature during and after Reconstruction. 

The real power of GIS is that it allows us to interrogate spatial data in new and interesting ways. This workshop is geared toward intermediate users who already have a basic understanding of GIS but are looking to practice running spatial queries.

Native pollinators are an essential resource in our wild and managed landscapes.  Come to this workshop if you're interested in learning more about their biology and conservation.  We'll mainly be talking about different species of bees but other types of pollinators will also be mentioned (flies, birds, bats, etc.).  We'll learn about the different families of pollinating bees ranging from the tiny beautiful sweat bees to the big and endearing bumble bees.  We'll learn about what they need for nesting and foraging habitats and how to create these spaces in our landscapes.

The Massachusetts Soccer School's Spring Break Camp is designed for boys and girls in kindergarten through 8th grade.

Monday class schedule is followed today.

The iNaturalist app is a free tool for engaging with the world around us. Part of a series of workshops to prepare attendees to participate in the City Nature Challenge 2020: Pioneer Valley.

In recognition of his pioneering work discovering prions, the underlying cause of neurodegenerative diseases including Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (or Mad Cow), Dr. Prusiner has also received the Wolf Prize, the Lasker Award, the Potamkin Prize, and the National Medal of Science.

This 1-hour workshop will provide an introduction to the life, work and legacy of W. E. B. Du Bois. It will also describe the work of the Du Bois Center at UMass Amherst.

Indigenous Mind, even though it is always present, still has to be discovered. We attempt to do that with music and art.

Drew Henderson has performed throughout Canada, the U.S., and Italy, bringing a program of both guitar favorites, as well as his own unique arrangements.

This workshop will familiarize you with the iNaturalist species identification process, and the resources available to you for species identification. Part of a series of workshops to prepare attendees to participate in the City Nature Challenge 2020: Pioneer Valley.

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