The former 1894 campus horse barn has been rebuilt and relocated to the Stockbridge School of Agriculture’s Agricultural Learning Center, where student farmers are using it to wash and pack the 75,000 pounds of vegetables they produce each year…
The university is undergoing a comprehensive evaluation for reaccreditation by the New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE, formerly the Commission on Higher Education of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, NEASC). A team of nine evaluators from public research...
Five faculty members in the colleges of Education, Natural Sciences and Social and Behavioral Sciences have received a two-year, $299,271 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the components of a successful multi-organizational partnership designed to promote girls’...
The Office of Equity and Inclusion has launched the Learning Community initiative, encouraging the campus community to participate in small discussion groups based on the book, “What if I Say the Wrong Thing?: 25 Habits for Culturally Effective People” by Vernā Myers. Groups will start meeting after Oct. 18.
The former 1894 campus horse barn has been rebuilt and relocated to the Stockbridge School of Agriculture’s Agricultural Learning Center, where student farmers are using it to wash and pack the 75,000 pounds of vegetables they produce each year.
Professor Ramesh Sitaraman of UMass Amherst’s College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) is one of a large team of scientists and engineers who have been honored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) with its SIGCOMM Networking Systems Award for work that “has had a significant impact on the world of computer networking,” the association says.
A celebration of the life of William “Bill” Mellen, professor emeritus of veterinary and animal science who died June 15 at age 94, will be held on Sunday, Oct. 28 in the Dickinson Ballroom of the Lord...
Professor Timothy Randhir of environmental conservation organized and led a daylong online global symposium “Commons without Borders: Global Multiscale Ecosystem Frameworks” on Oct. 10 as part of World...
Nusrat S. Chowdhury, assistant professor of anthropology at Amherst College, will speak on “Paradoxes of the Popular: Crowds and the Ambivalence of Resistance in Bangladesh” on Tuesday, Oct. 30 from 3:30-5:...
Susan M. Sheridan, the George Holmes University Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, will present "The Power of Partnerships: Research Evidence and Strategies for Success...
The UMass Amherst Historic Preservation Program and the New England chapter of Docomomo US will host a tour of the "brutalist" post-war modern architectural designs of Kevin Roche, Marcel Breuer and...
