MEDIA ADVISORY

DATE: Monday, Sept. 15, 2008
TIME: 11 a.m. to noon
PLACE: Case Study Room 108
Isenberg School of Management, UMass Amherst

AMHERST, Mass. – Alumnus Kenneth R. Feinberg, who directed the $7 billion fund created by Congress to assist the families of those killed or injured in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, will give a talk on the seventh anniversary of the attacks at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He will speak on Thursday, Sept. 11 at 4:30 p.m. in the Bernie Dallas room in Goodell Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

AMHERST, Mass. – William L. Mitchell, an alumnus who earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees in landscape architecture from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has been named the new director of the Stockbridge School at the university.

AMHERST, Mass. – Graduates of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of Massachusetts Amherst are actively involved in the creative economy of Western Massachusetts through their jobs and as volunteers and financial supporters of cultural organizations, according to a recent survey. Almost half of these alumni report they’d not be living in the Pioneer Valley had they not attended UMass.