Physical  Plant Landscape and Construction Services staff have been working with Michael Smith, program director with the UMass Transportation Center, on introducing the use of salt brine as a roadways anti-icing agent. 

The libraries are launching several new initiatives to support Geographic Information Systems (GIS) across the university and are offering workshops with a GIS librarian. 

An interview with Steven Tracy, Distinguished Professor of Afro-American Studies and Distinguished Overseas Professor at Central China Normal University, has been featured in the Chinese journal, “Shandong Foreign Language Teaching.”

Joel Wolfe, professor of history presented “Globalization under Paleo-Liberalism: The Western Hemisphere in the 1920s” on Wednesday, Jan. 15 at the Edinburgh Centre for Global History at Edinburgh University.