AMHERST, Mass. - More than 30 senior electrical engineering students at the University of Massachusetts will exhibit their research projects at Senior Design Day on Thurs. April 23, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., in the Gunness Student Center in Marcus Hall at UMass.
AMHERST, Mass. - Eighty-two University of Massachusetts seniors will be honored and several of them will receive awards at the 24th annual graduation and awards banquet of the Bilingual Collegiate Program (BCP) Fri. May 1 at 6 p.m. in the Student Union Ballroom.
AMHERST, Mass. - A group of University of Massachusetts engineering students will launch a concrete canoe onto the Campus Pond at approximately 5 p.m. on April 15.
AMHERST, Mass. - Five current or former University of Massachusetts students have won prestigious Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation (NSF). One is a senior in physics; three are graduate students in linguistics; and one is a 1997 graduate who majored in linguistics and philosophy. A total of 766 fellowships were awarded this year.
AMHERST, Mass. - Student volunteers from the University of Massachusetts are offering free tax assistance to local residents at the Hampshire Mall in Hadley and to UMass international students, faculty, and staff at the School of Management building on the Amherst campus.
AMHERST, Mass. - Fergus Clydesdale, head of the department of food science at the University of Massachusetts, has been asked to serve as a member of the National Academy of Sciences food safety oversight commission.
AMHERST, Mass. - Midnight Madness is going to strike this weekend for a University of Massachusetts team that has been training for months, preparing for a championship competition. But these three players aren’t on the University’s basketball team; rather, they’re participants in the annual Mathematical Contest in Modeling.
AMHERST, Mass. - The work of several University of Massachusetts faculty and students will receive awards from the Boston Society of Landscape Architects (BSLA) at the society’s annual awards banquet Feb. 11 in Boston. The BSLA is the regional branch of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA).
AMHERST, Mass. - The UMass Amherst Minuteman Marching Band has been selected to receive the 1998 Louis C. Sudler Trophy, the nation’s top marching band award.