Seven UMass Amherst undergraduates, graduate students and an alumna have received Fulbright U.S. Student Program grants to travel abroad as English teaching assistants or to perform research projects they designed.
Transportation Services has announced temporary closures for the transit bus garage yard and fleet services garage, as well as the beginning of summer hours for the fleet services garage.
UMass Amherst will award more than 6,500 graduate and undergraduate degrees during commencement ceremonies scheduled for Thursday and Friday, May 13 and 14.
UMass Boston’s Camp Shriver will relocate to the Mount Ida Campus of UMass Amherst in Newton for summer 2021. The change of location was prompted by significant construction activity on the UMass Boston Campus.
On May 25 at 8 p.m. in a free virtual stream, the UMass Amherst Fine Arts Center will join with a group of arts institutions across the nation to premiere the short film, “They Still Want To Kill Us,” about a new aria by composer and activist Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR).
The UMass ADVANCE Program has announced the third round of a seed grant program to foster the development of innovative and equitable collaborative research projects among UMass Amherst faculty.
Bridget Hynes, director of UMass Amherst Upward Bound, has been awarded a grant from the Council for Opportunity in Education to develop an internship program for pre-college and undergraduate students in science, technology, engineering, the arts and mathematics fields.
A first-of-its-kind nationwide survey of urban tree planting initiatives (TPIs) across municipal scales finds potential gaps in stewardship investments and institutionalization that raise questions about the programs’ long-term viability. In a study recently published online by the journal Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, researchers led by Theodore Eisenman at UMass Amherst examined the traits that are typical of urban TPIs in the United States.
Two ensembles and one solo musician from the jazz and African-American music studies program in the department of music and dance have been selected to receive Student Music Awards from “DownBeat” magazine, widely recognized as the top publication devoted to “Jazz, Blues, and Beyond.”
Media passes will be required to gain access to the field at the Warren P. McGuirk Alumni Stadium for coverage of Undergraduate Commencement ceremonies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst on Friday, May 14.
