Torrey Trust and co-authors were selected for the 2020 AECT Annual Achievement Award for the article “The Difference Between Emergency Remote Teaching and Online Learning” published in EDUCAUSE Review on March 27.
On Tuesday, Dec. 1, from 4 to 5:15 p.m., Daniela Calzetti, department of astronomy, will present the final talk in the Fall 2020 Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series. Her talk, “Stars are not ‘Spherical Cows,’” will be delivered via Zoom webinar. Registration is now open.
On Sunday, Nov. 22, at 3 p.m. EST, the UMass Fine Arts Center premieres a family-friendly, virtual, film screening of “Rock the Boat” by Sandglass Theater. “Rock the Boat” aims to get young audiences thinking about relocation, displacement and the interconnectedness of racial, climate and social justice.
Gov. Charlie Baker has ordered that the U.S. flag and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts flag be lowered to half-staff from sunrise until sunset at all state buildings on Thursday, Nov. 19, the day of interment, in honor of Warrant Officer 2 Marwan Sameh Ghabour, U.S. Army, a native of Arlington,...
The Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) at the UMass Amherst Libraries has acquired the collection of Upton Bell. The life and work of Bell, 83, who has been immersed in professional football since he was a child, is documented in an extraordinary collection of artifacts that will be made available to scholars and the public. SCUA has developed a public exhibition and website to share a selection of items from the collection.
Barbara Osborne, veterinary and animal sciences, and a small team of her colleagues involved in the startup medical research firm HasenTech recently were awarded two grants to advance their investigation of an exopolysaccharide (EPS), a sugar found on the surface of the bacterium Bacillis subilis.
Stephen de Bruyn Kops, mechanical and industrial engineering, and a team of researchers recently received an award of supercomputer access from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science through its Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program.
Luc Rey-Bellet and Markos Katsoulakis, mathematics and statistics, recently were awarded a three-year, $370,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to build new mathematical tools that will lead to more reliable and predictive models for extreme events, in particular for machine learning or artificial intelligence algorithms.
Professors Brenda Bushouse, Juniper Katz and Viviana Wu represented the School of Public Policy at the 2020 Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) annual conference, “From Climate Change to Social Justice: How Citizens are Re-Shaping Nonprofits and Philanthropy in an Age of Disruption and Transition,” last week.
Among seismologists, the geology of Alaska’s earthquake- and volcano-rich coast from the Aleutian Islands to the southeast is fascinating, but not well understood. Now, with more sophisticated tools than before, a UMass Amherst first team reports unexpected new details about the area’s tectonic plates and their relationships to volcanoes.
