Academics

The Juniper Summer Writing Institute’s weekly public readings return June 15–20 at Old Chapel.

DEFA Film Library to host Summer Film Institute and public film festival exploring space, justice, and environment in East German cinema.

Art and science come together to protect wildlife, create beauty, and build community. 

The Cundill Prize-winning UMass historian Stephen R. Platt published his fourth book, The Raider.

Ayesha Mukherjee is a sophomore English major and current Gillespie Curatorial Fellow in Shakespeare & the Book.

Professor Sonja Drimmer was interviewed by Artforum about Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI). Watch the video interview here or on Artforum.

Ogilvie’s contribution, “Natural History in the European Renaissance,” examines the origins of the field of natural history.

Dr. Hannah Pollin-Galay named Pen Tishkach Chair and Director of the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies at UMass Amherst.

HFA celebrates Opportunity Scholars Skylar Broadway Burnett and Hector Martinez, among the first to complete the full arc of the program. 

Evan Owens conducts linguistics research to uncover the workings of languages and studies biases people may hold against certain languages or ways of speaking.

Lindsay Forauer ‘25 marries linguistics and theater research to inform her work as a dialect coach.

Students in Professor Charmaine A. Nelson’s course created illustrated children’s books about slavery in the U.S. and Canada.