The Translation Center at UMass Amherst has launched its second workshop series in partnership with the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE). During this seven-week, remote series, over 60 public school employees from across the commonwealth participate in training related to translating school documents and communications and providing interpretation services.

The Resistance Studies Initiative Speaker Series will host Mahmoud Soliman on Thursday, April 8, at 1:30 p.m. for a webinar talk, “Lifestyle as nonviolent resistance: The case of marginalized Palestinian communities.”

James Allan, chair of the faculty at the UMass Amherst College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS), and CICS alum Jamie Callan '93PhD, now a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, have been selected to join the inaugural class of inductees into the ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval Academy. 

The UMass Amherst campus continues to operate in Elevated Risk Posture this week as it keeps numerous public health restrictions in place. The Public Health Promotion Center (PHPC) is closely monitoring COVID-19 test results, and it reports 87 positive cases occurred from testing on Monday and Tuesday this week.