Celebrating recent promotions were Devin Mackey, Michael Williams and James Sullivan, while Karl-Heintz Alcide, Garrett Antosz, Kyle Greene, Joseph Isabelle, Fernando Montalban and Bryan Williams joined the department.

The new program builds on the university’s rich tradition of interdisciplinary research between nursing and engineering to ensure new technologies are designed around the realities of patient care.

Faculty and staff can claim complimentary tickets to see UMass football kick off its 142nd season on Saturday, when first-year head coach Joe Harasymiak leads the team onto the McGuirk Stadium turf to face Temple at 3:30 p.m.

UMass Amherst researchers Paul Collins and Tim Komatsu have found that Federalist Society-affiliated justices are more reliable, more consistent conservative votes.

A joint collaboration between UMass Extension, UMass Amherst’s Stockbridge School of Agriculture and the College of Natural Sciences, the event, held biannually at UMass Amherst’s Joseph Troll Turf Research Center at the base of Mount Sugarloaf, draws hundreds of professionals from throughout New England.

The Class of 2029 hails from 43 U.S. states and some two dozen countries.

Zecchi, director of the Interdepartmental Program in Film Studies, was invited to co-lead “Reframing the Argument: Videographic Criticism as Graduate Research Practice,” a graduate workshop hosted at the University of Notre Dame in June.

The retreat will take place from 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. in the East and West rooms of the Hitchcock Center for the Environment, located at 845 West Street in Amherst.