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Woodrow Wilson Center Awards Fellowship to Altstadt
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
History professor Audrey Altstadt has been awarded a yearlong fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. Altstadt was one of 20 fellows selected from a field of 330 applicants. Fellowship winners will work with the Woodrow Wilson Center to turn scholarly research into relevant...
Obituary: Virginia Scott, Professor Emerita of Theater
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Virginia Scott, 79, professor emerita of theater and a founding member of the theater department, died March 1 at her home in South Amherst. Born in St. Louis, she began her life in the theater when she played Jo in a production of “The Little Women” at age 14. After receiving a B.A....
Henderson’s Book is Finalist for Lambda Literary Award
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
“Love and Money: Queers, Class, and Cultural Production,” by communication professor Lisa Henderson, is a finalist for the annual Lambda Literary Awards—known as Lammys—in the LGBT Studies category. Finalists for the awards were announced in early March by the Lambda...
Croft Receives IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society this month named Bruce Croft, Distinguished Professor in the School of Computer Science, as a recipient of its Technical Achievement Award for “outstanding contributions to information retrieval and the development...
Urban Bird, Plant Species More Diverse Worldwide than Expected
Tuesday, March 11, 2014

UMass Amherst ecologist  Paige Warren co-leads global survey of urban birds and plants.

Several FDA-Approved Anti-Cancer Drugs Induce Stem Cell Tumors, Perhaps Thwarting Therapy
Monday, March 10, 2014

Using a new approach to systematically test chemotherapy drugs in an unusual animal model, a research team led by University of Massachusetts Amherst molecular biologist Michele Markstein, with Norbert Perrimon at Harvard Medical School, report that several have a serious side effect: Inducing hyper proliferation in stem cells that could lead to tumor recurrence.

New Course Proposal
Monday, March 10, 2014
The following new course proposal has been submitted to the Faculty Senate Office for review and approval and is listed here for faculty review and comment. Comments on any new course proposal should be submitted to Ernest May, secretary of the Faculty Senate, at senate@senate.umass.edu. EDUC...
New Course Proposals
Friday, March 7, 2014

The following new course proposals have been submitted to the Faculty Senate Office for review and approval and are listed here for faculty review and comment.

Armenian Diplomat Teaching Political Science Classes
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Armen Baibourtian from the United Nations office in Armenia is a visiting scholar and professor in the department of political science for the Spring 2014 semester. He is teaching two classes: “At the Crossroads: The Caucasus between the East and the West” and “The Caucasian Knot...
American Forests Names Paul Barten to National Advisory Board
Thursday, March 6, 2014

American Forests, the oldest national nonprofit conservation organization in the country, recently named Paul Barten, professor of forestry and hydrology in Environmental Conservation, to its science advisory board. Barten says his primary motivation is to protect drinking water supplies and aquatic ecosystems.

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