Approximately 5,500 candidates received bachelor’s degrees as a crowd of 20,000 heard internationally renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson deliver the commencement address.
UMass Amherst will present awards to distinguished citizens and superlative students at its Undergraduate Commencement ceremony on Friday, May 8. Neil deGrasse Tyson, the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, will be the featured speaker and will receive an honorary degree.
Jack Welch, retired chief executive officer of GE, and his wife Suzy, a noted business journalist, brought their direct, no-nonsense message for success in business to an appreciative crowd of about 300 students, alumni and admirers on campus Tuesday night.
Best-selling business authors Jack and Suzy Welch will be giving a talk and signing copies of their new book, “The Real-Life MBA: Your No-BS Guide to Winning The Game, Building a Team, and Growing Your Career,” in 160 Commonwealth Honors College at UMass Amherst on Tuesday, April 21 at 7 p.m.
The UMass Amherst Alumni Association will recognize Sonia Nieto ’79 Ed.D., of Amherst, with a 2015 Distinguished Alumni Award on April 23 at the Massachusetts State House.
The UMass Amherst Alumni Association will recognize Sally Powers of Pelham with its 2015 Distinguished Faculty Award on April 23 at the Massachusetts State House.
The UMass Amherst Alumni Association has announced the 2015 recipients of its most prestigious recognition for alumni, faculty and friends: the Distinguished Alumni Awards.
Current and former students will have new and faster ways to get copies of their transcripts beginning April 20, says University registrar John Lenzi.
The university has contracted with Parchment, a company that provides credential management services, to simplify ordering and speed delivery of...
Rabbi Edward Feld and alumnus Hussein Ibish will discuss their career paths in Jewish campus work and Middle Eastern political policy analysis on Tuesday, April 14 from 5-7:30 p.m. in 301 Herter Hall.
Ibish is a senior research fellow at the American Task Force on Palestine in Washington, D.C....
The School of Public Health and Health Sciences (SPHHS) has planned a week’s worth of events in honor of the 2015 National Public Health Week, April 6-12, to highlight the message of education, research, outreach and practice.
At its 18th annual Research Day on Monday, April 6 from 2-5 p.m....
