The UMass Amherst Chamber Choir, under the direction of Tony Thornton with guest conductor E. Wayne Abercrombie, fills the newly renovated Old Chapel with the sounds of the Alma Mater and best wishes for a Happy New Year.

In the first study of its kind, environmental health scientist Laura Vandenberg and neuroscientist Mary Catanese at UMass Amherst examined the effects of the compound bisphenol S (BPS) on maternal behavior and related brain regions in mice. They found subtle but striking behavior changes in nesting mothers exposed during pregnancy and lactation and in their daughters exposed in utero.

The Annual UMass Amherst Homecoming Day Parade will step off from McGuirk Alumni Stadium on Saturday, Oct. 1 at 10:30 a.m., featuring the Minuteman Marching Band, numerous floats, Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy and the Town of Amherst Select Board.

The Feinberg Family Distinguished Lecture Series at UMass Amherst continues on Wednesday, Sept. 28 with a talk titled “The Circumference of a Prison: Youth, Race, and the Failures of the American Justice System,” by poet, writer and former inmate Reginald Dwayne Betts at 7 p.m. in the Student Union Ballroom.