Climate scientist and educator Casey Thornbrugh, a Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal member who also serves on the UMass Amherst Native Advisory Council, and his colleagues have received the 2020 Climate Adaptation Leadership Award from the National Fish, Wildlife and Plants Climate Adaptation Network.
Assistant professor Mohit Iyyer of the College of Computer and Information Sciences will conduct an online webinar and Q&A offering an analysis of racism in sport journalism and coaching from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 30. The public is invited, but space is limited and registration is required.
The Mark Roskill Symposium is an interdisciplinary symposium annually organized and hosted by the graduate cohort in the history of art and architecture department. This year’s symposium, “Reduction, Regeneration, Restoration: Art as Agent in the Age of Climate Crisis,” will be held on Saturday, Oct. 3, from 1 to 4:30 p.m. through Zoom.
The Office of Faculty Development has announced Christiane Healey, senior lecturer in biology, is this year’s Chancellor’s Leadership Fellow, while recognizing the work of last year’s inaugural group of Fellows; Angela C. M. de Oliveira, Karen Helferand Jenny Ross.
The new book, now available from publisher Verso Books, maps out the catastrophic consequences of unchecked climate change and presents what the authors say is a realistic blueprint for change: the Green New Deal.
On the eve of National Voter Registration Day, the five elected UMass student trustees released the following joint statement in support of the UMass Votes campaign, which encourages all UMass students to vote in the upcoming national election.
The University of Massachusetts Amherst is a launch partner for The Collective Think Tank, a global consortium of some of today’s greatest academic minds and industry leaders focused on gender parity and improving diversity. A first of its kind, this group will share data, insights and information to promote more opportunity for women to succeed in sports.
Five researchers from campus have been selected to receive a one-year, $100,000 grant from the National Science Foundation’s “10 Big Ideas for Future NSF Investments” series to conduct a series of national workshops to identify research challenges associated with transitioning to an equitable and sustainable energy system.
John Gibbons, food science, this month begins the search for Fungal Domestication Syndrome, supported by a five-year, $729,900 National Science Foundation (NSF) faculty early development (CAREER) grant.
A collaboration of seafood processing firms, lobstermen and others in the Gloucester area, with fish ecologists and food science researchers on campus, have launched a new socio-economic study to look at developing and evaluating a sustainable alternative bait for use in the Gulf of Maine lobster fishery.
