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Sierra Magazine Ranks UMass Amherst No.7 among North America’s ‘Cool Schools’
Monday, August 27, 2018

Sierra magazine, the national magazine of the Sierra Club, has placed the University of Massachusetts Amherst at No. 7 in its 12th annual “Cool Schools” ranking of North America’s greenest colleges and universities. Released today, the 2018 rankings show UMass Amherst jumped into the top 10 from No. 58 last year. A record 269 schools in 36 states, the District of Columbia and Canada submitted applications.

Harvest at the Umass Amherst student farm.
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Xing Honored by Soil Science Society of America
Friday, August 24, 2018
Baoshan Xing, professor of environmental and soil chemistry in the Stockbridge School of Agriculture, has been named recipient of the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) 2018 Soil Science Research Award. Xing was cited for his demonstration of unusual research creativity; excellence in...
Baoshan Xing
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For His Annual Farm Tour, Congressman James McGovern Will Visit UMass Amherst Agricultural Learning Center on Aug. 21
Monday, August 20, 2018

As part of his eighth annual Farm Tour in western Massachusetts, Congressman James McGovern will make a stop at UMass Amherst’s Agricultural Learning Center (ALC), where approximately 30 of its 60 acres are in production this summer. The focus of this season’s tour is farms that produce and sell food and produce to schools and other institutions.

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Tudor-Locke Examines Walking Cadence as Measure of Exercise Intensity
Tuesday, August 7, 2018
Catrine Tudor-Locke, professor of kinesiology and associate dean for research in the School of Public Health and Health Sciences, with members of her Physical Activity and Health Lab and others, is the first author of a new publication examining walking cadence as a reliable, consistent measure of...
Catrine Tudor-Locke
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UMass Amherst Ranks No. 1 in Campus Dining for Third Straight Year
Monday, August 6, 2018

AMHERST, Mass. –  For the third straight year, the University of Massachusetts Amherst ranks No. 1 for campus dining in the nation. The honor was revealed today by The Princeton Review as part of its ranking of the top 20 colleges in 62 different categories. The university will be among the schools featured live on NBC’s “Today Show” on Tuesday, Aug. 7 between 10-11 a.m.

UMass Dining #1
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Krish Thiagarajan Named to Endowed Chair in Renewable Energy at UMass Amherst College of Engineering
Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Krish Thiagarajan, an expert on marine renewable energy and energy-producing offshore structures, has been appointed to the Endowed Chair in Renewable Energy in the UMass Amherst College of Engineering.

Krish Thiagarajan
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Video: West Experiment Station Reborn as Part of New Physical Sciences Building
Monday, July 16, 2018

Cutting-edge when it opened in 1887, West Experiment Station was structurally unsound in 2015 when it was dismantled and its facade reassembled as part of the new, state-of-the-art Physical Sciences Building.

West Experiment Station
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Old Chapel, Design Building Honored by Planners Group
Thursday, July 12, 2018

Two much-celebrated campus buildings were honored again July 11, receiving design excellence awards from the Society for College and University Planning. The John W. Olver Design Building earned a SCUP Merit Award for Excellence in Landscape Architecture – General Design and Old Chapel garnered a SCUP/AIA-CAE Merit Award for Excellence in Architecture for Rehabilitation, Restoration or Preservation.

Old Chapel
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Physicists, Chemists Beginning Move to New Physical Sciences Building
Thursday, July 12, 2018
  After three years of construction, the new $101 million Physical Sciences Building (PSB) is beginning to fill with physicists, chemists and their staffs, equipment and experiments. The 95,000-square-foot state-of-the-art building, which incorporates the reconstructed West Experiment...
PSB from North Pleasant Street
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Graduate Student Awarded NOAA Grant for Marine Doctoral Research
Tuesday, July 10, 2018
Grace Casselberry, a doctoral student in marine science and technology, has been awarded a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Dr. Nancy Foster Scholarship that will provide four years of support for her doctoral studies beginning in September. Casselberry, who works in Andrew...
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