Ten “green idea” projects around campus are underway, made possible with grants from the Sustainability, Innovation and Engagement Fund. Launched in 2013, the program aims to foster sustainability by financially supporting students, faculty and staff who propose projects to promote a greener campus.
This November, the Animation Club comes to the Libraries with a collection of collaborative exercises on display in the Science and Engineering Library in Lederle Lowrise and the W. E. B. Du Bois Library.
The department of biostatistics and epidemiology, part of the School of Public Health and Health Sciences, will host a seminar, “Estimating MSM Parameters Using Instrumental Variables: Necessary Conditions and an Application,” on Friday Nov. 15 at 10 a.m.
An interdisciplinary team of students, Arianna Kazemi, Connor Kennedy and Gabri Silverman, undergraduate winners of the American Statistical Association (ASA) Public Health Data Challenge, and their advisor, associate professor of biostatistics Nicholas Reich, have published an article exploring the differences in the death, arrest and reoffending rates for opioid users in the U.S.
AMHERST, Mass. – The simple pleasure of tasting and savoring food is “an important part of anyone’s daily life,” says UMass Amherst sensory scientist Alissa Nolden.
Juliet Schor, professor of sociology at Boston College, will deliver the fifth annual Samuel Bowles lecture presented by the UMass department of economics, in the Gordon Hall Conference Room on Wednesday, Nov. 20, from 4-6 p.m. The lecture, “It’s Beyond the Gig: Work and the Platform Economy,” is free and open to the public, with a reception to follow in the Gordon Hall Atrium.
Alumnus Marcos A. Reyes-Martinez, a materials research engineer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, was honored by the U.S. Department of Commerce for Hispanic Heritage Month in October.
An art installation by Carolina Aragón, assistant professor of landscape architecture, is currently on display in the World Bank atrium. The display is part of “The Art of Resilience” exhibition featuring artists from around the world who are using their art to advance resilience to disasters and climate change.
Distinguished Professor Stephen Clingman, department of English, delivered the 2019 Bram Fischer Memorial Lecture at the University of Oxford in England on Thursday, Oct. 24.
On Monday, Nov. 11, the planet Mercury will pass in front of the sun, an event that will not be visible in North America again until 2049, says Stephen Schneider, professor of astronomy at UMass Amherst.
