The former UMass Amherst campus horse barn on Grinnell Way, now part of the Stockbridge School of Agriculture’s Agricultural Learning Center, will be officially unveiled to the public with a ribbon cutting and opening celebration.
The department of biostatistics and epidemiology, part of the School of Public Health and Health Sciences, will host a seminar, “Pharmacoepidemiology, mental health, and older adults,” Friday, Oct. 4 at 10 a.m. in Life Science Laboratories N210.
The Resistance Studies Initiative fall speaker series will feature a talk from Mandy Carter, “Why Are Intersectional Resistance Alliances So Difficult to Build? Examples from Our LGBTQ+ Movement,” on Thursday, Oct. 10 from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Integrated Science Building, room 145.
This week, representatives of 195 member governments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are meeting at the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco with dozens of climate scientists who have prepared a draft “Summary for Policymakers” of their “Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC).”
The department of the history of art and architecture will celebrate the master’s program’s 50th anniversary on Saturday, Oct. 5. Founded in 1969, the master of art program in the history of art and architecture is the only graduate degree in the field at a public university in New England.
UMass Amherst today announced the acquisition of the papers of Daniel Ellsberg, one of the nation’s foremost political activists and whistleblowers. Following a decade as a high-level government official, researcher and consultant, Ellsberg distributed the top-secret Pentagon Papers in 1971, exposing decades of deceit by American policymakers during the Vietnam War.
The Digital Life team at UMass Amherst led by evolutionary biologist Duncan Irschick and other colleagues today released the world’s first accurate, publicly available three-dimensional (3D) model of the rare Southern white rhino in collaboration with Perth Zoo in Australia.
A diverse group of faculty have been named recipients of a 2019-2020 Sustainability Curriculum Fellowship, an interdisciplinary program that includes a $1,000 professional development grant and monthly brainstorming sessions to learn about best practices.
The Graduate Dean invites all graduate faculty to attend the final oral examinations for the doctoral candidates scheduled as follows:
Kevin Winner, Ph.D., College of Information and Computer Sciences, Monday, Sept. 30, 11:30 a.m., A311 Lederle Graduate Research Center. Dissertation: “...
