The 2021 UMass Garden Calendar is now available for purchase. It continues UMass Extension's tradition of providing gardeners with practical information, including daily tips for Northeast growing conditions.

The UMass Amherst history department’s 2020-21 Feinberg Series will host nine major public events featuring internationally renowned scholars and movement leaders speaking on the theme, “Planet on a Precipice: Histories and Futures of the Environmental Emergency.”

The University of Massachusetts Amherst was named among Sierra magazine’s “Top 20 Coolest Schools 2020,” a list of the greenest colleges and universities in North America. For its strong environmental ethos and wide-ranging sustainability efforts, UMass Amherst jumped to No. 15 on the 14th annual list from the Sierra Club’s national publication, up from No. 27 in 2019. Sierra received a record 312 submissions for this year’s survey.

Professor Greg Grason, a theoretical polymer scientist in polymer science and engineering, has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society by its Council of Representatives this month as recommended by the society’s Division of Polymer Physics.