UMass Amherst again ranks among the nation’s premier public universities, placing at No. 26 among the 146 national public institutions evaluated in the 2021 Best Colleges guide published by U.S. News & World Report.
Sarah Cornell, senior lecturer in the department of history; Karen Kurczynski, associate professor in the department of the history of art and architecture; and Garrett Washington, assistant professor in the department of history; have been awarded this year’s College of Humanities and Fine Arts (HFA) Outstanding Teaching Award.
The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) will be hosting a forum on the range of possibilities and contextual merits for synchronous and asynchronous instruction on Wednesday, Sept. 23 at 11:30 a.m. on Zoom.
Thaddeus Miller, associate professor at the School of Public Policy (SPP), has coedited a special issue, “Urban Techno Politics,” of the journal “Science as Culture,” focused on how science and technology influence political and social structures in cities.
The International Association for Geoscience Diversity recently named Michele Cooke, geosciences, as the recipient of its 2020 International Association for Geoscience Diversity Inclusive Geoscience Education and Research Award.
The graduate dean invites all graduate faculty to attend the final oral examinations for the doctoral candidates. All exams will be held via video conferencing. Contact the department for online meeting information.
Final oral examinations for the doctoral candidates are...
UMass Amherst hydrogeologist David Boutt is available to talk about the relationship between drought, streamflow, and groundwater. New Hampshire and much of New England have seen anomalously low rainfall over the past few months.
To further enhance its asymptomatic testing program for COVID-19, UMass Amherst today announced that free testing will now be available to all UMass students living in the Amherst area.
Scott Auerbach of UMass Amherst’s chemistry and chemical engineering departments will deliver the 2020 Commonwealth Honors College Plenary Lecture on September 21 at 6:30 p.m. The lecture—“Is Racism a Science Problem?” will be presented on the Honors College website. Auerbach is also the Mahoney Family-sponsored executive director of the UMass Integrated Concentration in Science (UMass iCons) program.
Gov. Charlie Baker, in accordance with United States Public Law 107-89, has ordered that the U.S. and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts flags be lowered to half-staff at all state buildings on Friday, Sept. 11, in observance of Patriot Day.
