The UMass men’s basketball team has launched a flash sale for tickets to their game against Dayton at the Mullins Center on Saturday, Feb. 15 at 12:30 p.m. Value tickets are on sale for $10 from noon Wednesday, Feb. 12 through noon, Friday, Feb. 14.

The campus will conduct a test of the UMass Amherst Alerts Emergency Notification System (ENS) on Wednesday, Feb.19 after 12:10 p.m., according to Jeff Hescock, executive director of environmental health and safety and emergency management.

The UMass Amherst history department welcomes historian, author, and public intellectual, Vijay Prashad as the 2020 Writer-In-Residence.

Sally Campbell Galman, professor of children, families and schools at the College of Education, has published a cartoon in the Feb. 12 Daily Hampshire Gazette Home Magazine. The autobiographical cartoon entitled, “The Lifeboat: A Story About Improving More Than Just a Home,” centers around her experiences buying and rehabilitating a local home.