A proposal by the Five College Consortium to increase its annual payment to the Pioneer Valley Transit Authority by a total of $250,000 over the next four years has been accepted by PVTA and area municipalities.
PVTA’s costs are covered with a combination of federal and state subsidies,...
John Clark, professor of veterinary and animal sciences, has been elected by the governing board of the Entomological Society of America as a research fellow and was recognized during the society’s joint annual meeting of the Entomological Societies of America, Canada and British Columbia, on...
Anna Nagurney, the John F. Smith Memorial Professor of Operations Management at the Isenberg School of Management, delivered the Omega Rho Distinguished Lecture at the INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) annual conference in Phoenix, Arizona, on Nov. 4.
Her...
A design by Carolina Aragón, assistant professor of landscape architecture, was among the top 50 entries in the International Land Art Generator Initiative Competition held in Melbourne, Australia.
Aragon’s entry, “WeAVES: Energy Harvesting Textiles in Public Space,”...
Fall may not seem like a good time for planting, but cool temperatures and ample soil moisture can help plants settle in, says viticulture expert Elsa Petit at UMass, whose students in the Stockbridge School of Agriculture have been busy planting dozens of cold-tolerant grapes at the campus’s first student-run vineyard.
The following was sent to the campus community on Nov. 1.
We would like to announce the formation of two task forces to advance sustainability efforts on campus. The first is a Climate Resilience Task Force and the second is a Carbon Mitigation Task Force.
The Climate Resilience Task Force will...
Just in time for Halloween, a brand new Trash Monster has moved into the Blue Wall to tackle the monstrous problem of consumer waste. The Trash Monster reminds students and others using the Campus Center’s dining hot spot about the importance of reducing their carbon footprint by using fewer disposables.
Family Weekend returns Oct. 19-21 with a full schedule of informative and entertaining activities, ranging from chocolate classes to tours of the new $100 million Physical Sciences Building. The weekend includes home games for football and men’s soccer, bake shop tours, the Multicolor Mile...
UMass Amherst has again been named to the Princeton Review’s list of Top 50 Green Colleges, which are schools that have “superb sustainability practices, a strong foundation in sustainability education, and a healthy quality of life for students on campus.”
Sewer line construction in connection with the Worcester Dining Commons project will require a series of pedestrian and vehicle detours on North Pleasant Street from the Integrated Sciences Building to the dining commons beginning Tuesday, Oct. 16 through Thursday, Oct. 25.
