In the spring 2021 semester, the Office of Equity and Inclusion (OEI) will be continuing it’s Learning Community Book Groups with its recently expanded offering of “How to be an Antiracist,” by Ibram Kendi. OEI is continuing prior discussion groups with the books “What if I Say the Wrong Thing?” by Verna Myers and “Braving the Wilderness” by Brene Brown.

A virtual workshop, “Home Orchard Establishment,” is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Feb. 20, as part of UMass Extension’s popular home gardening series presented by Mass Aggie Seminars 2021.

More than one-third of the Corn Belt in the Midwest – nearly 30 million acres – has completely lost its carbon-rich topsoil, according to UMass Amherst research that indicates the U.S. Department of Agriculture has significantly underestimated the true magnitude of farmland erosion.

On the occasion of W. E. B. Du Bois's birthday, the W. E. B. Du Bois Center at UMass Amherst, will host a virtual panel on Tuesday, Feb. 23 at noon, ET. This panel celebrates the centennial of the remarkable and short-lived “The Brownies' Book,” the periodical for Black children edited by Du Bois, Jessie Fauset and Augustus Granville Dill.