Ken Toong, executive director of auxiliary enterprises, will be a featured speaker during the exploratory seminar “Mediterranean Diet: Promotion and Dissemination of Healthy Eating,” on Monday, Sept. 16 at Harvard University.
“Fielding: Goldenrod, An Exploration of Connections,” curated by Emily Tareila, a 2019 master of fine arts graduate, is the first pop-up exhibition organized by the University Museum of Contemporary Art and the Natural History Collections.
The University of Massachusetts Amherst will soon move ahead with plans to seek proposals from private developers to construct new undergraduate housing and graduate family housing after receiving approval to proceed from the UMass Board of Trustees. Proposals will be sought for a public-private partnership (P3) to provide high-quality, affordable graduate student family residences and to meet the growing demand for undergraduate student housing.
As a new academic year begins, Chancellor Kumble R. Subbawamy extends warm greetings to the newest members of the campus community and a welcome back to all returning students, faculty and staff.
Judy LaDuc, biological safety officer with the environmental health and safety department, has been appointed to serve as a council member on the New England Biosafety Association for a three-year term from 2020 to 2023.
The Massachusetts Health Policy Forum, in partnership with The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation and support from RIZE Massachusetts, Baystate Health and UMass Amherst School of Public Health and Health Sciences, will discuss a new report that examines the disproportionate impacts of opioid use disorder on the small, rural communities of Western Massachusetts.
The Minutemen football team will kick off its six-game home slate at McGuirk Alumni Stadium on Saturday, Sept. 7 against Southern Illinois at 3:30 p.m. The team will debut their new clasically-themed maroon uniforms for the game as they look to tally the first career win for first-year head coach Walt Bell, and UMass Athletics will introduce fans to a number of experiential updates surrounding gameday at McGuirk Alumni Stadium.
Lora McNeece Barrett, senior lecturer in art education, has been chosen as the recipient of the Higher Education Art Educator of the Year 2020 by the Massachusetts Art Education Association.
The UMass ADVANCE Program is accepting proposals through Tuesday, Sept. 17 for seed grants to foster the development of innovative and equitable collaborative research projects among UMass Amherst faculty.
Lieutenant Colonel David A. Lemery has been named the University of Massachusetts Amherst Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFROTC) Detachment 370 Commander.
