This year’s Building Bridges Virtual Showcase provides a variety of opportunities to come together online and participate in one of several live sessions and to view digital galleries beginning Tuesday, June 30.
Jenny Adams, Sonya Atalay, Chrystal George Mwangi and Christiane Healey have been appointed Chancellor’s Leadership Fellows for the 2020-21 academic year.
Better data on marijuana use in the U.S. is needed to support critical public health research, according to a review of relevant surveys conducted by UMass Amherst researchers.
To avoid crowds during the coronavirus pandemic, there will be no presentations at the UMass Amherst Sunwheel marking the start of summer. However, the public is invited to visit the site for sunrise and sunset to celebrate the longest days of the year. Visitors should wear masks, employ social distancing, and be prepared for the possibility of wet footing and mosquitoes.
Nicholas Reich, director of the UMass Influenza Forecasting Center of Excellence and associate professor of biostatistics and epidemiology in the School of Public Health and Health Sciences,is available to discuss the updated projections, four weeks out, for number of COVID-19 deaths nationally and by state.
UMass Amherst microbiologist Derek Lovley has been awarded the Mahoney Life Sciences Prize for his research on protein nanowires, a new electronic material with unique properties that is produced with bacteria to avoid the harmful environmental effects associated with man-made materials.
Teresa Ramsby, associate professor of classics, recently received the annual award for Excellence in College Teaching from the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.
UMass music faculty Eric Berlin, trumpet; Gregory Spiridopoulos, trombone; and Ludmila Krasin, piano; are featured on the CD, “Along the Continuum,” which MSR Classics released earlier this spring.
Jane Kent, professor and chair of the kinesiology department, has been named a 2020 UMass Amherst Spotlight Scholar. Kent studies mobility and aging. She recently received a five-year, multimillion-dollar grant from the National Institutes on Aging for research that builds upon her 20-plus-year studies of muscle fatigue and aging.
