As historic wildfires threaten life, health and property in the West and spread smoke all the way to the East Coast, UMass Amherst environmental health scientist Richard Peltier can shed light on the health hazards of wildfire smoke and some strategies to protect yourself.
Members of the University of Massachusetts and surrounding Amherst area community will broadcast a discussion and Q&A titled “Perspectives on Covid-19 and Anti-Asian Bias and Xenophobia.” The event will take place via zoom on Wednesday, Sept. 23 from noon to 2 p.m.
Assistant professor of horn, Joshua Michal, has just released his first solo CD, titled Ekphrasis, on MSR Classics. The CD’s title is taken from a work of the same name composed by music and dance department chair, Salvatore Macchia, that is featured on the new release.
The public is invited to observe sunrise and sunset live, but remotely online, on the day of the autumnal equinox among the standing stones of the UMass Amherst Sunwheel on Tuesday, Sept. 22 at 6:30 a.m. and 6:15 p.m.
The School of Public Policy will host Brandi Blessett to speak on "The Patterns and Practice of Predatory Policing in Communities of Color" in an online event open to the UMass Amherst community on Monday, Sept. 21, at noon.
Krishna Kumar, the Robert L. Gluckstern Professor in Physics, recently received a three-year, $1.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to support the launch a suite of new experiments at DOE’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport News, Virginia, to measure radii of neutron distributions in heavy nuclei.
UMass Amherst again ranks among the nation’s premier public universities, placing at No. 26 among the 146 national public institutions evaluated in the 2021 Best Colleges guide published by U.S. News & World Report.
Sarah Cornell, senior lecturer in the department of history, Karen Kurczynski, associate professor in the department of the history of art and Architecture, and Garrett Washington, assistant professor in the department of history, have been awarded this year’s UMass Amherst College of Humanities and Fine Arts (HFA) Outstanding Teaching Award.
The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) will be hosting a forum on the range of possibilities and contextual merits for synchronous and asynchronous instructionon Wednesday, Sept. 23 at 11:30 a.m. on Zoom.
Thaddeus Miller, associate professor at the School of Public Policy (SPP), has coedited a special issue, “Urban Techno Politics,” of the journal “Science as Culture,” focused on how science and technology influence political and social structures in cities.
