A film by Liane Brandon, professor emerita of education, is being as part of the “Tell Me” series on the Criterion Channel. Brandon’s 1972 film, “Betty Tells Her Story,” is a documentary exploring the issues of body image and self-worth in American culture. 

The UMass Amherst Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR) will be presenting a series of online summer methodology workshops throughout June and July. The numerous multi-day workshops will provide registrants with education in various tools and methods used in social science research, under the instruction of faculty members and researchers across the university’s schools and colleges.

Career Development and Professional Connections at UMass Amherst has adapted quickly to the fast-evolving situation resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. From surveying employers who are still hiring to offering students virtual support, the Career Development staff has been working to help prepare students facing an uncertain job market.

Recent correspondence in “Nature Materials” by a team of campus researchers answers a long-time question that experimental physicist Narayanan Menon says is “one of those things you should be able to look up in a textbook, a very basic question. But when you do look into the literature, there’s confusion, and it has been going on for decades. Our work isn’t screaming ‘new discovery,’ but this basic question is what we have clarified.”