The string program is one example of the close-knit musical community that exists at the department of music and dance. Check out this video to get a sense of the quality of the students, the faculty and their music.
UMass Amherst has named Clem Clay as director of the UMass Extension Agriculture Program, a 110-year old educational outreach program that serves farmers, landscape and turf professionals, fruit growers, arborists, nursery owners, flower growers, service providers, public agencies, non-profit organizations and businesses.
The UMass Fine Arts Center, School of Earth and Sustainability and MFA for Poets and Writers have designed Philip Glass at UMass: Arts and Sustainability Responding to Life Out of Balance – a weekend of thought-provoking events Sept. 20-22, leading upto the live performance by Philip Glass and the Philip Glass Ensemble of Koyaanisqatsi, a1983 experimental film of spectacular images. Free and open to the public, these events usethe film’s exploration of the disconnections between the natural world and the human-built environment as a starting point to discuss how science and the arts can address the threats to our natural world, including climate change.
Plant geneticist Joe Gallagher, a postdoctoral researcher in evolutionary developmental biologist Madelaine Bartlett’s lab, recently received a two-year postdoctoral fellowship from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The U.S. Department of the Interior has renewed its support for the Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center (NE CASC) at UMass Amherst with a five-year, $4.5 million commitment as the host campus for its six-member consortium of universities, says center co-director professor Richard Palmer. The Northeast region ranges from Maine to Wisconsin and Maryland to Missouri.
The University Museum of Contemporary Art is presenting “Leonardo Drew: Cycles” from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation. The exhibition will be on view from Friday, Sept. 20 through Sunday, Dec. 8.
Malcolm Purkey, noted South African playwright and historian of South African theatre, will give the Interdisciplinary Studies Institute's first public lecture of 2019-20.
Goodwin Liu, associate justice on the California Supreme Court, delivered the annual Dean Alfange, Jr. Lecture in American Constitutionalism at UMass Amherst on Thursday, Sept. 19 at 4 p.m. in the Commonwealth Honors College Events Hall. The lecture is free and open to the public.
The department of biostatistics and epidemiology in the School of Public Health and Health Sciences will host a seminar, "Pan-disease clustering analysis of the trend of period prevalence," on Friday, Sept. 27 at 10 a.m. in Life Science Laboratories N210.
