Study abroad programs in Israel will resume during the spring semester, following a review by the campus’ International Risk Management Committee, which cited a revised travel advisory from the U.S. State Department as a key factor in the decision.
According to Jack Ahern, vice provost for...
Maxim Health Systems is conducting two public flu clinics on campus for those who do not use University Health Services for their primary care.
The clinics are scheduled as follows:
Tuesday, Oct. 14, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in 168C Campus Center
Thursday, Nov. 13, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in 176...
Members of the campus community can protect themselves and others from the flu by attending one of University Health Services’ walk-in or mobile flu clinics for UMass students and other UHS patients, or by stopping by a community clinic at the Campus Center.
University Health Services...
Congresswoman Katherine Clark was the keynote speaker as the UMass Women into Leadership (UWiL) training program hosted a kick-off celebration on Sept. 23 at the UMass Club in Boston.
Based in the department of political science and College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, UWiL seeks to prepare...
Nominations are now open for the Rising Researcher student award program. Sponsored by the vice chancellors for research and engagement and university relations, the Rising Researcher program seeks to highlight the campus’s most promising undergraduate researchers and scholars and to publicly...
Artist Craig Colorusso's “Sun Boxes” public installation is made up of 20 speakers operating independently, each powered by solar panels. There is a different loop set to play a guitar note in each box continuously. The guitar notes collectively make a Bb chord. Because the loops...
Piper Kerman, author of Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison, will bring the experiences described in her memoir to life as part of UMass Amherst’s Common Read program on Wednesday, Oct. 1 at 7 p.m. at the Campus Center auditorium.
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies will host its annual Graduate Conference on Saturday, Oct. 11 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Reading Room.
The keynote speaker is Coppelia Kahn of Brown University.
The $10 registration fee covers all sessions, breakfast, lunch and...
The UMass Madrigal Singers will perform a program titled “Madrigals on Poetry by Petrarch, Dante, Guarini, and Tasso” as the fall First Sunday Concert series begins on Sunday, Oct. 5 from 2-4 p.m. in the Reading Room at the Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies...
UMass Amherst’s new Women’s Health Clinic at University Health Services is hosting its grand opening on Tuesday, Sept. 30 from 3-5 p.m. The event marks an expansion of gynecological and reproductive health services on campus and celebrates the leading role in women’s health UHS has maintained since 1971.
