A new research report published by Clare Hammonds and Jasmine Kerrissey of the UMass Amherst Labor Center’s COVID-19 Workplace Project examines the experiences of workers in six states as they were asked to confront the public with mixed feelings about wearing masks and complying with other COVID-19 safety recommendations, such as social distancing.
UMass Amherst is recognized as a top-performing educational institution in the 2020 Sustainable Campus Index (SCI), a publication of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE). It received the 7th highest score among large, public, doctoral-granting universities, based on a UMass analysis of the data.
The Center for Research on Families (CRF) is presenting a talk, “When Disaster Strikes: Response, Research, and Recovery,” by Ivan Rusyn, University Professor in the department of veterinary integrative biosciences in the College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences at Texas A&M University in College Station, on Monday, Dec. 7 at noon.
The UMass Amherst Libraries share news of the publication of “Pen Pal: Prison Letters from a Free Spirit on Slow Death Row” by Tiyo Attallah Salah-El. “Pen Pal” was published in October 2020, and all author royalties will be donated to the Libraries, where Tiyo’s papers are housed in Special Collections and University Archives.
Gretchen Gerzina, professor in the department of English and Paul Murray Kendall Chair in Biography at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, will present a talk for Oxford University’s Nineteenth Century Research Seminar Series on Monday, Nov. 30, 2020.
The graduate dean invites all graduate faculty to attend the final oral examinations for the doctoral candidates. All exams will be held via video conferencing. Contact the department for online meeting information.
Final oral examinations for the doctoral candidates are...
