AMHERST, Mass. - University of Massachusetts psychology professor Ervin Staub says the violence and ethnic cleansing underway in Yugoslavia’s Kosovo Province stems in part from the Serbian desire for a secure national identity and unhealed wounds from past violence against Serbs. Staub, who has studied mass violence and genocide in Bosnia and Rwanda, also says the international community is correct in trying to stop the killing in Kosovo.

AMHERST, Mass. - Bernd Sahling, an independent filmmaker from Potsdam, Germany, will be the University of Massachusetts DEFA Film Library’s first filmmaker-in-residence from April 21-29, 1999. Sahling will participate in two public events co-sponsored by the University’s Multicultural Film Festival.

AMHERST, Mass. - University of Massachusetts women''s studies professor Janice Raymond has received two prestigious grants totaling $449,000 to study the impact of sex trafficking in the U.S. and abroad. The grants have been awarded to the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, an international human rights non-profit organization that Raymond co-directs.

AMHERST, Mass. - Student volunteers from the University of Massachusetts are offering free tax assistance to local residents at the Hampshire Mall in Hadley and to UMass international students, faculty, and staff at the Isenberg School of Management building on the Amherst campus.