The office of Civic Engagement and Service-Learning (CESL) has a new website at a new URL: www.umass.edu/cesl/.
Developed by University Communications, the site is designed to provide students, faculty and community members an easier way to learn about CESL’s programs and courses.
The new...
Jonathan Skolnik, associate professor of German and a core faculty member in film studies, presented a lecture titled “‘Two pages must have got hanged together…’: German Exiles, Hollywood, and Race in America,” on Sept. 8 at Howard University in Washington D.C.
His...
Walter B. Denny, Distinguished Professor in the history of art and architecture, is one of the organizers of an exhibition of woven bags from the Middle East and the Caucasus opening Sept. 25 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
“Portable Storage: Tribal Weavings from the...
The Stockbridge School of Agriculture’s Sustainable Food and Farming program presents “Women Entrepreneurs in the Food System,” a lecture series taking place on three Tuesdays: Sept. 26, Oct. 24, and Nov. 28, from 5:30-6:45 p.m. in 202 Paige Laboratory.
The series is intended to...
Epidemiologist Susan Hankinson at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has received a five-year, $4.2 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to build upon and advance her research group’s earlier work to identify and validate hormonal markers to better predict the risk of invasive breast cancer in postmenopausal women.
At the invitation of the Organization of American Historians, history professor Christian Appy has written a series of articles about the new 10-part, 18-hour documentary "The Vietnam War" by Ken Burns and his colleague Lynn Novick, which premieres on PBS Sept. 17.
The first of Appy...
As Massachusetts prepares to begin sales of recreational marijuana in 2018, researchers at the UMass Amherst School of Public Health and Health Sciences, in collaboration with the UMass Donahue Institute and staff at the state Department of Public Health, have begun a one-year baseline study to assess the level of marijuana use before legal, recreational sales go into effect.
The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded $216,849 to Skyler Arndt-Briggs and Barton Byg of the DEFA Film Library, the German and Scandinavian sudies program and the interdisciplinary program in film studies to support an interdisciplinary summer institute for college-level teachers and...
Prashant Shenoy, professor of computer science and associate dean in the College of Information and Computer Sciences, has been named a 2017-2018 Fulbright Specialist Scholar. He will travel to Mumbai, India, to work with researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay on water and energy challenges in Indian cities.
Cognitive neuroscientists Rosie Cowell and David Huber at UMass Amherst recently received a four-year, $2.36 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a new computational tool that will help researchers in interpreting functional magnetic resonance images (fMRI) of the brain and improve accuracy in relating fMRI data to neural responses in the brain.
