Challah for Hunger is a non-profit organization bringing people together to bake and sell challah with the purpose of raising money and awareness about the issue of food insecurity among college students.
The 2019-20 Gerald F. Scanlon Student Employee of the Year committee is seeking nominations for outstanding student employees. Nominations are due by Friday, Feb. 28.
The W.E.B. Du Bois Center is now accepting applications for post-doctoral and graduate fellowships to assist scholars in conducting research in the W. E. B. Du Bois Papers housed in the UMass Amherst Libraries’ Special Collections and University Archives.
Five food science Ph.D. students have been honored with 2020 student awards from the American Oil Chemists’ Society (AOCS) for their outstanding contributions to science. The AOCS is a century-old international scientific and professional organization serving the field of fats, oils and...
The School of Public Policy recently hosted 47 students from across campus who spent a day tackling the crucial question of how to create sustainable cities during a beta test of the NASPAA-Batten Student Simulation Competition.
UMass Amherst civil engineering student Alyssa Ryan has been named a 2020 Traffic Safety Scholar (TSS) and awarded a $1,000 scholarship to attend the 38th annual Lifesavers National Conference on Highway Safety Priorities, March 14 through 17 in Tampa, Florida.
I-Corps @ UMass Amherst has several upcoming events and calls for applications for its programs to help faculty, students and postdoctoral fellows apply research and technology to real-world problems.
The Graduate Dean invites all graduate faculty to attend the final oral examinations for the doctoral candidates scheduled as follows:
Bryan Elliott Sharkey, Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Thursday, Feb. 6, 1 p.m., N410 Life Science Lab. Dissertation: “Development and Characterization of...
The UMass Amherst Libraries have introduced PolicyMap, a map creation tool for visualizing data about communities across the United States, including income, housing, quality of life and even federal guidelines.
Five Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning (LARP) students were recently awarded the Jury Prize in the 2020 Edmund N. Bacon Urban Design Awards Student Competition. The interdisciplinary team of graduate students was one of four winning teams out of 2,500 registered teams from all over the world.