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 Trustees of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation have approved a grant of $225,000 dollars to UMass Amherst to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled “Race and Visual Culture in the Americas, 20th to 21st Centuries.”
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.”
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UMass Amherst Offers Online Webinar and Q&A on ‘AI Analysis of Racism in Sports Journalism & College Coaching’
WHO: Assistant professor Mohit Iyyer, UMass Amherst College of Computer and...
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.
Astronomers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst are marking an especially meaningful event this month, as a team led by Professor Peter Schloerb recently received a three-year, $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to provide support for the Large Millimeter Telescope in Mexico and to offer – for the first time – access to it for astronomers from any U.S. institution.
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.
The Digital Life Project directed by Duncan Irschick, biology, has partnered with the marine science nonprofit ANGARI Foundation and underwater camera pioneer Casey Sapp for a research expedition to Bimini, The Bahamas, to create an accurate 3D model of a great hammerhead shark to share with scientists, educators and storytellers.
The Graduate Dean invites all graduate faculty to attend the final oral examinations for the 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...
On Thursday, Sept. 17, the Office of the Provost sent an email announcing a revised academic calendar for spring 2021, including a two-week delay in the start of the semester, the elimination of a week-long spring break and two Wellbeing Wednesdays replacing traditional long weekends.
