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UMass Amherst College of Nursing Celebrates 65th Anniversary
Thursday, October 4, 2018

The College of Nursing at UMass Amherst celebrated its 65th anniversary Sept. 28 with a dinner attended by about 150 alumni, current and retired faculty, students, staff and friends of the college.

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Jackson Katz to Address Men’s Response to Feminism
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Alumnus Jackson Katz, a global leader on issues of masculinities, violence and men’s response to feminism, will speak on “Men and #MeToo: Possibilities and Perils in a Time of Change” on Tuesday, Oct. 2 at 5:30 p.m. in Old Chapel. Katz, who in 1982 was the first man to graduate...
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Alumnus William Hubbard, Tokio-Marine HCC Endow Sport Management Internship Awards Fund
Tuesday, July 31, 2018
Sport management alumnus Bill Hubbard, in conjunction with Tokio-Marine HCC, has established an endowed fund with a $1 million gift that will provide financial support to McCormack Department of Sport Management students who participate in internships within the sport and entertainment industry...
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Student-Led Startup Aclarity LLC Nets $225,000 from NSF Small Business Program
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Aclarity LLC, a startup water technology company founded by civil engineering Ph.D. student Julie Bliss Mullen and Barrett Mully, a spring MBA graduate of the Isenberg School of Management, was recently awarded $225,000 by the National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research grant...
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Alumnus Martin Jacobson Pledges $5.58 Million to UMass Amherst Athletics
Wednesday, June 20, 2018

University of Massachusetts Amherst Director of Athletics Ryan Bamford announced the finalization of a $5.58 million gift commitment by Marty Jacobson ’68 to the University of Massachusetts Athletics Department on Wednesday, June 20. In honor of the gift, UMass Amherst will name its football team facility the “Martin Jacobson Football Performance Center.”

Martin Jacobson
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Geosciences Places Donated ‘Pillow Lava’ on Outdoor Display
Monday, June 11, 2018
After a journey of 20 miles and 450 million years, a 3-ton specimen of pillow lava has found a home on a grassy area just above the Morrill Courtyard steps. The rock, part of what geologists call the Hawley Formation, was donated by the owners of Ashfield Stone in Shelburne Falls, Jerry Pratt...
Pillow lava on display
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14 UMass Amherst Students, Alumni Awarded Fulbright Grants
Monday, May 14, 2018

Fourteen UMass Amherst students and alumni have been awarded Fulbright grants for 2018-19, reports the university’s Office of National Scholarship Advisement (ONSA).

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CNN’s Jake Tapper Calls on Graduates to Embrace the Humanity of Others as UMass Amherst Awards 5,500 Degrees
Friday, May 11, 2018

At Undergraduate Commencement at UMass Amherst, CNN anchor Jake Tapper called on the Class of 2018 to lead the nation out of a dark period, set a moral standard of which they can be proud, and embrace the humanity of others.

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UMass Amherst Faculty Member and MFA Alumna Karen Skolfield’s ‘Battle Dress’ Wins Barnard Women Poets Prize
Tuesday, May 8, 2018

The 2018 Barnard Women Poets Prize has been awarded to Karen Skolfield, a lecturer in the UMass Amherst College of Engineering and a 1998 graduate of the MFA for Poets and Writers program. A U.S. Army veteran who lives in Amherst, Skolfield won the prize for “Battle Dress,” her second collection of poems.

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Land-Grant Homecoming Scheduled in Vermont
Friday, May 4, 2018
The Friends of the Morrill Homestead in Strafford, Vermont—the historic home of Justin Smith Morrill, father of the Land-Grant College Acts and a framer of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution—invite alumni and students of UMass Amherst and all land grant colleges to a free Land-...
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