The Commonwealth Honors College Residential Complex at UMass Amherst has been awarded LEED Silver certification, a level within the green building rating system developed by the U.S. Green Building Council.
The University of Massachusetts Amherst has risen to 106th among top universities worldwide in 2016 Best Global Universities, a new report by U.S. News & World Report. The rankings also include 22 broad subject areas, where the university is 10th worldwide in agricultural sciences.
The College of Engineering will hold its sixth annual Outstanding Alumni Awards Celebration during Homecoming Weekend on Oct. 16.
The celebration will include two events. The first will be a Leadership Panel Discussion – moderated by Dean Tim Anderson and featuring our 2015 Outstanding...
Kinesiology professor and department chair Catrine Tudor-Locke was inducted as a fellow in the National Academy of Kinesiology during its annual meeting in Philadelphia Sept. 17-19.
Election to the academy is one of the highest honors for a professor in kinesiology. The academy promotes the study...
The University of Massachusetts Amherst held its 11th annual Faculty Convocation Oct. 2, with Chancellor Kumble R. Subbaswamy offering his detailed vision for the university’s “surge to national and international prominence.”
When conversation turns to the topic of quintessential college towns, Amherst consistently earns national accolades. That’s the case again this year, as College Values Online salutes Amherst in its list of the 50 Best Small College Towns in America.
The nomination period for the 2015-16 Distinguished Teaching Awards, the highest recognition of teaching awarded to faculty members and teaching assistants/associates, is open through Oct. 16.
While only current and former students can nominate faculty for the award, faculty are invited to...
Lisa Green, professor of linguistics at UMass Amherst and director of the Center for the Study of African American Language, is one of ten scholars nationally to be named a Linguistics Society of America fellow for 2016.
Dining Services has received the 2015 Marketing Excellence Award given by Produce Business magazine. The award recognizes the university’s dining program for promoting healthy eating and developing a creative marketing campaign around the “Mushroom Mania” event held in February....
UMass Amherst continued its ascent among the nation’s best public universities, moving up to No. 29 in the 2016 Best Colleges guide released Sept. 9 by U.S. News & World Report. The guide also ranked the campus No. 75 among national universities.
