The Plainridge Park Casino has created job opportunities for the unemployed and underemployed, among other economic benefits, without an increase in problem gambling, according to UMass Amherst researchers from the Social and Economic Impacts of Gambling in Massachusetts study.
Four projects proposed by faculty members have been awarded Public Service Endowment Grants from a special campus fund designed to boost outreach, extend the campus resources into the surrounding community and enhance the public service mission of the university.
Jedaidah Chilufya, a third-year Ph.D. student from Ndola, Zambia, who studies in professor Dong Wang’s biochemistry lab, was recently awarded an International Peace Scholarship for the 2019-20 academic year from the Iowa-based Philanthropic Educational Organization.
The Amherst Half Marathon is scheduled to take place on Sunday, Nov. 10 starting at 8 a.m. The 13.1-mile course starts and concludes at the Haigis Mall at UMass Amherst.
The Center for Agriculture, Food and the Environment, along with other sponsors, hosted the Massachusetts Ecosystem Climate Adaptation Network’s third annual conference on Tuesday, Oct. 29 at the Mount Ida campus of UMass Amherst.
Arindrajit Dube, professor of economics, has completed and presented a review of the international evidence on the impacts of minimum wages and the implications for future minimum wage policy to end low pay in the United Kingdom. Dube was appointed in March by then-Chancellor of the Exchequer Phillip Hammond to undertake the review, and the presentation of his findings comes after current Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid said in September the government would raise Britain’s minimum wage to two-thirds of median earnings, taking it to 10.50 pounds ($13.58) an hour.
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.
