Tricia R. Serio, dean of the College of Natural Sciences (CNS), has been named associate chancellor of strategic academic planning by Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy. Serio will dedicate 20 percent of her time to the new role while continuing to lead CNS in her position as dean.
This spring, the UMass Fine Arts Center takes full advantage of the virtual world to engage and inspire audiences with over 40 online events featuring renowned artists like visual artist Alison Saar and the South African choral icons Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
Professors James Allan and Brian Levine of the UMass Amherst College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) have been named Fellows by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society.
A multidisciplinary team of researchers at UMass Amherst’s Institute for Applied Life Sciences (IALS) have developed a technique to replicate bone tissue complexity and bone remodeling processes. This breakthrough could help researchers further their study of bone biology and assist in improving development of drugs for osteoporosis.
Merle G. Willmann, 86, professor emeritus in landscape architecture and regional planning, died at home in South Deerfield Friday, Jan. 8. Willmann spent 34 years teaching in the landscape architecture and regional planning program and is founder of the Boltwood Project, the largest and longest continuously running community engagement program at UMass Amherst.
In partnership with Gov. Charlie Baker’s administration, UMass Amherst today announced that it will expand its role in distributing COVID-19 vaccines, providing vaccinations for the foreseeable future in concert with the criteria and timeline of the state’s phased vaccination plan.
Drawing upon the work of political scientists, legal theorists and activists in the streets, Zuckerman offers a lens for understanding civic engagement that focuses on efficacy and the power of seeing the change you make in the world in his new book.
UMass Amherst will participate in the COVID-19 National Day of Remembrance Tuesday, Jan. 19 at 5:30 p.m., by illuminating the W.E.B. DuBois Library and ringing the Old Chapel bells at the start and end of the hour.
As UMass Amherst readies itself for the spring semester, operations at its COVID-19 testing center and early COVID-19 vaccination continue to succeed due in large part to the nearly 90 student workers who play a significant role in daily operation, including test collection, contact tracing and vaccine administration.
Scientists may have explained a phenomenon that seems to contradict the laws of physics. For the last decade or so, astronomers have been puzzled by the “weird behavior” of some jet-like X-ray features observed around bubbles of charged particles ejected from very fast-moving pulsars. These jets shoot out at super high speed into interstellar space at odd, unexpected angles, says Daniel Wang at UMass Amherst.
