Geoscientist and Arctic research expedition leader Julie Brigham-Grette will be the featured speaker for a screening of the documentary, “South: Ernest Shackleton and the Endurance Expedition,” at the Amherst Cinema on Monday, March 16 at 7 p.m.
She will introduce the film with a...
The UMass Amherst Police Department celebrated White Ribbon Day with Northwestern District Attorney David Sullivan on March 2 by hosting a breakfast for department personnel as well as Amherst police and firefighters.
Sullivan said that law enforcement and emergency medical technicians are often...
The graduate dean invites all graduate faculty to attend the final oral examinations for the doctoral candidates scheduled as follows:
Seanegan Sculley, Ph.D., History. Thursday, March 19, 2 p.m., 601 Herter Hall. Dissertation: “ ‘We Began the Contest for Liberty Ill Provided’:...
Distinguished Professor Raymond Bradley, director of the Climate System Research Center, has won a 2015 national “Texty” award for excellence for his book, “Paleoclimatology: Reconstructing Climates of the Quaternary.”
As part of a 20th anniversary celebration of the men’s basketball 1995-96 Final Four team, the department of athletics has announced plans to retire a jersey in honor of John Calipari during the 2015-16 season. The retired jersey will be hung in the Mullins Center alongside UMass’ five...
The Joint Task Force on Resource Allocation (JTFRA) has posted a second draft report and invites comments from the campus community before submitting its final report to Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy later this spring.
The task force co-chairs, Elizabeth Chilton, associate vice chancellor for...
Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito will deliver the keynote address for the UMass Women into Leadership weekend workshop on Friday, March 6 at 7:20 p.m. in the University of Massachusetts Amherst Campus Center.
The College of Natural Sciences invites graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to apply for Manning Inventor Fellowships, which provide stipends of either $30,000 (graduate fellows) or $50,000 (postdoctoral fellows) in order to pursue commercialization of discoveries made in UMass Amherst...
The Faculty Senate will hear a presentation from the Joint Task Force on Resource Allocation at its meeting on Thursday, March 12 at 3:30 p.m. in 227 Herter Hall.
The task force recently posted a second draft report and has invited comments from the campus community before submitting its final...
New research from a UMass Amherst sociologist has found that white straight men and lesbians are much more open to online interracial dating than are white gay men and straight women.
