Academics

This past Friday marked a proud and exciting moment for students in Professor Monika Schmitter’s Curating Views of Venice course.

Two student artists were commissioned to create a mural for the IASC conference, with HFA financial support

For eight days, from June 22 to June 29, 2025, a team of researchers in the W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies held an institute. 

Each year, students apply to the Poggio Civitate Archaeological Field School and join the dig for the month of July.

Mathematics and German major Arya Gadage ’25 found community, clarity, and confidence through the UMass iCons Program.

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.