The 41st Annual Multiband Pops Concert will be Friday, Oct. 16 from 7:30–10 p.m. in the Fine Arts Center Concert Hall. The program will feature 15 music and dance ensembles as part of a musical extravaganza. The perennial highlight is the rousing performance by the Minuteman Marching Band, which comprises nearly the entire second half of the show.
The University of Massachusetts Amherst held its 11th annual Faculty Convocation Oct. 2, with Chancellor Kumble R. Subbaswamy offering his detailed vision for the university’s “surge to national and international prominence.”
Norwood native John F. O’Connell, Jr. and his wife, Donna, have announced a $2 million bequest that will provide permanent scholarships for students from Norwood High School who attend UMass Amherst.
Charles P. McQuaid, a 1974 graduate from the Isenberg School of Management at UMass Amherst, has given the school a $1.5 million gift to establish an endowed professorship in finance.
The UMass license plate is available to the public online and can be mailed to your door – no waiting in line at the RMV. The plate is also available at most local MassDOT RMV branches. Proceeds help support scholarships and programs that advance students, alumni and UMass Amherst. The...
Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen will deliver the annual Philip Gamble Memorial Lecture at UMass Amherst Thursday, Sept. 24, at 5 p.m. in the Fine Arts Center Concert Hall.
Chef Joanne Weir will be preparing a five-course, prix-fixe dinner on Wednesday, Sept. 16 from 5-9 p.m. at the University Club & Restaurant at UMass Amherst and at the University of Massachusetts Club in Boston on Thursday, Sept. 17 from 5-9 p.m. to launch her new cookbook, “Kitchen Gypsy: Recipes and Stories from a Lifelong Romance with Food.”
Eric Beal, an Amherst attorney and former chair of the Amherst Zoning Board of Appeals, has been appointed to the newly created position of neighborhood liaison at the UMass Amherst, effective Aug. 3.
