Conference/Seminar
The Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance
April 17, 2014
4:00 pm
Skinner Hall, 101
This year’s symposium is centered on intergenerational, intertribal, and institutional collaborations that highlight Indigenous history, location, and knowledge.
April 18, 2014
1:00 pm-5:00 pm
Campus Center - Marriott Center, 11th floor
The 2014 Dose-Response, Preconditioning: Adaptive Responses in Biology and Medicine will explore the rapidly emerging area of Preconditioning, its biomedical implications, its dose response features and its underlying mechanisms.
April 22—April 23, 2014 8:00 am-3:00 pm
More than 1,000 students from different public campuses in Massachusetts will deliver presentations showcasing their exceptional projects.
April 25, 2014
8:00 am-5:00 am
Campus Center
The Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies will host its tenth annual symposium on historical European martial arts.
April 26, 2014
9:00 am-4:00 pm
Renaissance Center
The TEDxUMassAmherst team will be hosting a day-long conference, featuring world-renowned speakers on the UMass Amherst campus.
April 27, 2014
9:00 am
Mahar Auditorium
Reverend James Lawson, Jr., Visiting Faculty, Civil Discourse and Social Change initiative, California State University, Northridge, speaks on "Where do we go from here: Chaos or Community?" Visiting Faculty, Civil Discourse and Social Change initiative, California State University, Northridge American Civil Rights Leader Where do we go from here: Chaos or Community?
April 28, 2014
7:00 pm
Goodell Hall, The Bernie Dallas Room
The new Models to Medicine Center of the recently launched Institute for Applied Life Sciences hosts a kick-off symposium on “Models to Medicine: Challenges and Opportunities.” Talks will describe exciting basic biomedical research pursuits that have been translated into therapeutic applications.
May 2, 2014
11:00 am
Student Union Ballroom
Veteran qualitative researchers discuss challenges and opportunities as they arise in designing thoughtful and responsive research; considering purpose, context, potential participants and ethics; modifying the initial design based on emerging understandings of the context; and the conceptual and epistemological assumptions and their implications.
May 12, 2014 9:00 am-3:00 pm
May 13, 2014 9:00 am-2:00 pm
Machmer Hall, W32
This three-morning workshop will get you started using NVivo to code and analyze qualitative data.