The Office of Human Resources and the Office of the Chancellor invite all UMass Amherst employees to the annual Lunch on the Lawn, Thursday, Aug. 22 from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Haigis Mall.

Faculty, staff, deans, librarians and other campus leaders are invited to learn how arts-based practices can enrich their own research at two zine-making workshops, to be held Aug. 26 and 27 in the Olver Design Building, room 270.

The UMass Amherst scientists, led by Stephen Rich, also estimate for the first time the number of people in the U.S. bitten by deer ticks each year.

Grace Casselberry, postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Environmental Conservation, was recently awarded the American Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship from the American Association of University Women to support her work in assessing the predator-prey dynamics of tiger sharks and four sea turtle species in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands.

The Office of Career Development and Professional Connections is offering free recruiting tables at its Sept. 6 Amherst Area Job Fair to on-campus departments and programs that hire students each year.

An $11 million award from the program will support seven years of research.