Alumna Kyung-Wha Kang is serving as special advisor on policy to United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who took office Jan. 1.
Kang, who earned her Ph.D. and M.A. through the communication department in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, headed Guterres’ transition...
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.
Fourteen graduates were honored Sept. 23 as the inaugural class of the civil and environmental engineering department’s Academy of Distinguished Alumni. The awards recognize their contributions to the engineering profession.
CEE department head Richard Palmer and College of Engineering dean...
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.
Clarence Brooks Jr., an all-conference offensive lineman and assistant coach for UMass Amherst in the 1970s who went on to defensive coaching success in the National Football League and won a Super Bowl ring with the Baltimore Ravens, died Sept. 17. He was 65.
Born in New York City in 1951, he...
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.
Football, friendship, food and scores of activities mark the 2016 UMass Amherst Homecoming, Sept. 29-Oct. 1.
Make your plans to gather with friends and share your UMass pride with the help of the full schedule of Homecoming events posted online by the Alumni Association at UMassAlumni.com/...
The College of Engineering at UMass Amherst will present its seventh annual Outstanding Alumni Awards during Homecoming Weekend. The college’s Homecoming Reception and Awards Celebration will be held Friday, Sept. 30 at 4:30 p.m. in the MarriottRoom on the 11th floor of the Campus Center.
Victor Woolridge, a lifelong Springfield resident whose UMass education propelled him to success as a business and civic leader and to the chairmanship of the UMass Board of Trustees, today was honored by the Council for Opportunity in Education for his accomplishments and for demonstrating the transformative power of higher education.
The College of Education can claim as its own at least three of the 213 recipients of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching announced by President Barack Obama on Aug. 22.
Four teachers from each U.S. state and territory were selected for the award, which...
