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Brandon’s Powerlifter Photos Going on View at Boston City Hall
Thursday, February 26, 2015
Photographs by Liane Brandon, professor emerita of education, will be featured in the Mayor’s Gallery at Boston City Hall during Women’s History Month, March 2-31. The exhibit, “LIFT,”is co-sponsored by the Boston Women’s Commission. A reception will be held Friday,...
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Valdiviezo Gives Lecture to Education Faculty at Peruvian University
Thursday, February 26, 2015
During a Feb. 19 visit to the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru, associate professor Laura A. Valdiviezo of the College of Education gave a lecture on “Interculturality as a Global Challenge in Higher Education for the 21st Century.” The lecture was attended by the...
Laura Valdiviezo
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Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Examines Shakespeare and Aging
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Susan Whitbourne, professor of psychological and brain sciences, will present a Renaissance Wednesday Lecture on Shakespeare and aging on March 11 at 4 p.m. at the Renaissance Center, 650 East Pleasant St. Refreshments are co-sponsored by the Amherst Woman’s Club.    
Susan Whitbourne
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Francis to Address Racialized Tracking in High Schools at CPPA Colloquium
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Dania Francis, assistant professor of economics, will present a talk titled “Why Don’t More Black Students Take AP Courses? Examining Racialized Tracking, Social Isolation and the ‘Acting White’ Hypothesis” on Monday, March 2 at 12:15 in 620 Thompson Hall. Francis...
Dania Francis
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UMass Amherst Researcher Partners with Chinese Inventor to Develop New Antibiotics
Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Margaret Riley, an evolutionary biologist at UMass Amherst and pioneer in fighting antibiotic-resistant bacteria, announced this week that she is partnering with a Chinese scientist to develop a new drug platform, pheromonicins

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UMass Press Publishes Laurie’s Book on Northampton Abolitionists
Monday, February 23, 2015
“Rebels in Paradise: Sketches of Northampton Abolitionists” by Bruce Laurie, professor emeritus of history was published last month by the UMass Press. Laurie profiles five rebellious figures who launched Northampton’s abolitionist movement—Sylvester Judd Jr., John Payson...
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Brigham-Grette Lectures at Austrian Academy of Sciences
Thursday, February 19, 2015
Geosciences professor Julie Brigham-Grette, last month gave an invited lecture, “Tracing Arctic Climate Evolution: From a Forested Arctic to the Present,” as part of the Eduard Suess Lectures at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna.  In her Jan. 21 talk, Brigham-Grette...
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UMass Amherst Chemical Engineer Neil Forbes Receives Grant to Study Using Safe Salmonella Bacteria to Attack Cancer Cells
Thursday, February 19, 2015

Neil Forbes, a chemical engineer at UMass Amherst, has received a five-year, $1.56-million grant from the National Institutes of Health to create nontoxic Salmonella bacteria that deliver cancer-killing agents inside tumors.

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Freedson Keynotes American College of Sports Medicine Regional Meeting
Thursday, February 19, 2015
Patty Freedson, professor and chair of the kinesiology department, delivered the keynote address at the annual meeting of the Southeast Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine (SEACSM) held Feb. 12-14 in Jacksonville, Fla. Freedson, who is an expert in measurement of physical activity...
Patty Freedson
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Whitmal to Discuss ‘Care and Feeding of the Human Ear’
Tuesday, February 17, 2015

“The Care and Feeding of the Human Ear: An Informal Guide” will be presented by Nathaniel A. Whitmal, associate professor of communication disorders, on Thursday, Feb. 26 at 5 p.m. in 917 Campus Center. The talk is part of the Diversity Speaker Series in the School of Public Health and Health Sciences.

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