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 scheduled as...
With more staff and students returning to campus for the spring semester, sustainability leaders at UMass Amherst are spreading the word about new guidelines for handling waste.
Researchers in the College of Natural Sciences at UMass Amherst have found that man-made dams built in the Lower Hudson watershed in the northeastern United States do not trap as much sediment from riverways as previously believed.
Martín Espada, professor in the UMass Amherst Department of English and winner of the Poetry Foundation’s 2018 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, published a new collection of poetry titled “Floaters.”Espada’s book “offers exuberant odes and defiant elegies, songs of protest and songs of love from one of the essential voices in American poetry,” according to the Norton publishing website.
Co-directors of the Public Health Promotion Center, Jeffrey Hescock and Ann Becker, provided information on safety measures in place for Spring semester face-to-face classes in an email to faculty and teaching assistants on Jan. 15.
In an email to the campus community, Jeffrey Hescock, executive director of environmental health and safety and Ann Becker, public health director, outline coronavirus testing requirements for faculty and staff who are teaching and working on campus for the Spring semester.
In an email last week, Chancellor Kumble R. Subbaswamy offered an update on the preparations for the start of Spring semester to ensure the health and wellbeing of every member of the campus community.
Samuel P. Hazen, biology, was awarded the Dr. Constantine J. Gilgut Professorship in Plant Biology for a term of three years following approval by the Board of Trustees at its Thursday, Dec. 10 meeting.
The Lotta Agricultural Fund, a loan fund established in 1924 in the Stockbridge School of Agriculture, is expanding its criteria and making the opportunity to apply for a substantial, no-interest loan to any UMass Amherst graduate to support agricultural activities.
Tricia R. Serio, dean of the College of Natural Sciences (CNS), has been named associate chancellor of strategic academic planning by Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy. Serio will dedicate 20 percent of her time to the new role while continuing to lead CNS in her position as dean.
