Maura Lynn Brown, 46, of Ware, manager of the Morrill greenhouses, died Nov. 20.
Born in 1969 in Hampden, she received her bachelor’s degree in agriculture from the Stockbridge School of Agriculture. For just over a year she had been manager of the Morrill greenhouses, a complex of more than...
Junior Marina Qutab took second place in Turning Green’s Project Green Challenger, a national competition that asked college and high school students to make their lives more sustainable through a month-long series of daily green challenges.
For the final competition held Nov. 20-22 in San...
Graduate students from the Department of Kinesiology won several scholarships and awards at the recent New England Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine (NEACSM) annual meeting in October in Providence.
Cory Greever, a doctoral candidate, was the winning presenter in the “ACSM...
The Office of Religious and Spiritual Life will soon be distributing the “Festival of Light” holiday posters to residence halls, administrative offices and local public schools.
These colorful posters are a longstanding tradition at UMass Amherst, promoting greater awareness and...
AMHERST, Mass. – The University of Massachusetts Amherst is among the top 279 national colleges and universities in the U.S. ranked for their contributions to the public good, according to The Washington Monthly’s 2015 College Guide.
The magazine places UMass Amherst 137th among public...
Chancellor Kumble R. Subbaswamy delivered the following message today in an email to the UMass Amherst campus community.
Dear Campus Community,
This past Friday, I joined members of the university community in a Listening Session focused on campus issues of race, inclusiveness and social...
Teams of aspiring student entrepreneurs at UMass Amherst will compete in the first round of the 2016 Hult Prize Challenge Tuesday, Dec. 8, from 7-9 p.m. at the UMass Amherst Commonwealth Honors College Events Hall.
Marina Qutab of Rutland, Mass., a UMass Amherst junior majoring in both communication and Arabic has been selected as a finalist for Turning Green’s Project Green Challenge.
The University Club and Restaurant is partnering with Fort Hill Brewery of Easthampton to offer a prixe fixe, four-course, beer pairing dinner on Thursday, Nov. 19.
Dinner reservations will be taken for seatings from 5-9 p.m. The cost is $35 per person, not including tax and gratuity.
The first...
Students, faculty and staff are invited to register now for the first annual Tower Run Thursday, Nov. 19 from 7-10 p.m. at the W.E.B. Du Bois Library.
Modeled after the Empire State Building Run-Up, the Tower Run offers the opportunity to run the 440 steps of the Du Bois Library, from the Lower...
