Five students and a faculty member sponsored by the Department of Public Health attended the Massachusetts Health Policy Student Forum held Jan. 5-6 at the State House.
Talks by Barbara Chung, Microsoft Corporation’s chief security advisor for education, and colleagues will kick off the 2006 Microsoft IT Showcase School Lecture Series on Thursday, Feb. 2.
The Massachusetts Nursery and Landscape Association (MNLA) is giving $100,000 to UMass Extension’s Nursery, Landscape and Urban Forestry Program to establish an endowment to support its work with the “green industry” and the public.
Jean E. (Ward) Stowell, 80, of Amherst, a retired technical assistant II at University Health Services, died Jan. 25 at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton.
"Escaping into the Night," a historical novel for young adults by D. Dina Friedman, lecturer in the Business Communication Program of the Isenberg School of Management, was recently published by Simon & Schuster.
Communication professor Jarice Hanson will moderate a national teleconference called "What''s News? A National Dialogue" from WHYY television in Philadelphia on Friday, Feb. 3.
AMHERST, Mass. – Extension research and education in sustainable and environmentally sound nursery and landscape management is getting a big boost at the University of Massachusetts Amherst thanks to a $100,000 gift from the Massachusetts Nursery and Landscape Association (MNLA).
Alumna Jill Carroll, a freelance journalist who was abducted Jan. 7 in Iraq, remains missing nearly a week after the deadline set by her kidnappers, who threatened to kill her if U.S. forces did not release Iraqi female detainees.
