Six schools that earned “Best Campus Food” honors in the 2015 edition of The Princeton Review will be represented at a special Princeton Review Dinner on Tuesday, March 3 from 5-9 p.m. at Hampshire Dining Commons at UMass Amherst.
“Vang” and “Map of My Kingdom,” two plays by Mary Swander, Iowa’s poet laureate and founder of the national organization AgArts, will be performed Tuesday, March 3, and Wednesday, March 4, at 8 p.m. in Bowker Auditorium. The plays tackle urgent social, political and economic issues facing America’s farmers today.
The graduate dean invites all graduate faculty to attend the final oral examinations for the doctoral candidates scheduled as follows:
Sheera Hefter, Ph.D., Education. Tuesday, March 10, 9:15 a.m., 163 Hills South. Dissertation: “Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports in Out-of-...
“Black Power and the Spirit of Student Activism,” a conversation with professor emeritus Ekwueme Michael Thelwell and alumnus Stanley Kinard, will be presented Thursday, March 12 at 7 p.m. at the Augusta Savage Gallery in New Africa House.
Talvin Wilks, visiting artist in residence,...
The Renaissance Center is holding its annual Dakin Pancake Breakfast on Saturday, March 14 from 8 a.m. to noon.
The breakfast features syrup tapped from the center’s own maple trees (a tradition begun by Janet Dakin) and donated by local sugarer Robert McIntyre. The all-you-can-eat breakfast...
Photographs by Liane Brandon, professor emerita of education, will be featured in the Mayor’s Gallery at Boston City Hall during Women’s History Month, March 2-31. The exhibit, “LIFT,”is co-sponsored by the Boston Women’s Commission. A reception will be held Friday,...
Andrew G. Reiter, assistant professor of politics at Mount Holyoke College, will speak on “Fighting Over Peace: Spoilers, Peace Agreements, and the Strategic Use of Violence” on Thursday, March 5 at 1 p.m. in the Commonwealth Honors College Events Hall - 160 East, as part of the Interdisciplinary Seminar on Conflict and Violence.
Nominations are now open for the Rising Researcher student award program. Sponsored by the vice chancellors for research and engagement and university relations, the Rising Researcher program seeks to highlight the campus’ most promising undergraduate researchers and scholars and publicly...
During a Feb. 19 visit to the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru, associate professor Laura A. Valdiviezo of the College of Education gave a lecture on “Interculturality as a Global Challenge in Higher Education for the 21st Century.”
The lecture was attended by the...
The UMass Amherst Stroke Support Group will hold a community awareness event for stroke and aphasia on Saturday, March 7 at 1:30 p.m. at the First Baptist Church, 434 North Pleasant St. in Amherst.
