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White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council Catherine Coleman Flowers recently delivered a powerful keynote address highlighting the intersectional nature of climate change.
In HFA, student learning expands far beyond the classroom. Take a peek inside Collecting 101: Acquiring Art for the University Museum of Contemporary Art, where students learn the inner workings of museum acquisition—and conclude the semester by choosing a piece of artwork to purchase for the museum’s permanent collection.
This year, HFA has the distinct honor of celebrating not one but two faculty members selected as part of the Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series: Department of Music and Dance faculty members Jeffrey Holmes, professor of piano and trumpet, and Ayano Kataoka, professor of percussion. For this achievement, the two have received the Chancellor’s Medal, the highest recognition bestowed upon faculty by the campus.
Aretha Miller ’92 has a legacy of lifting others up. Born in Jamaica, Miller enrolled at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and it immediately became her second home. Now, she continues her work to make education more accessible for the next generation.
For me, the work of Slavery North is teaching people about slavery in these specific regions, making this field more accessible to scholars doing the work, and asking the question: Which countries and regions have been allowed to forget their participation in slavery?
Music Historian Emiliano Ricciardi has been named a 2024 UMass Amherst Spotlight Scholar.
Three students in the Department of Architecture received top honors in the 2024 Metal Building Manufacturers Association (MBMA) Student Design Competition.
The inaugural Sara Lennox Lecture in Black German Studies will take place on Tuesday, April 2, at 4.30 p.m. in the Hadley Room of Campus Center.