Football, friendship, food and scores of activities mark the 2016 UMass Amherst Homecoming, Sept. 29-Oct. 1.
Make your plans to gather with friends and share your UMass pride with the help of the full schedule of Homecoming events posted online by the Alumni Association at UMassAlumni.com/...
“The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition,” a new book by historian Manisha Sinha, has been nominated for the 2016 National Book Award in nonfiction.
Sinha, a member of the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies and history department faculties since 1994, recently...
The Massachusetts Archaeology Month poster for 2016, which promotes the state’s annual October celebration of archaeology in Massachusetts, features a photo of the UMass Amherst archaeological field school working at the Emily Dickinson Museum.
Begun in 1992 as Archaeology Week,...
The UMass Amherst Community Campaign will launch on Monday, Sept. 26 with a Charity Fair from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the student Union Ballroom.
UMACC is an employee benefit that allows faculty, staff and retirees to donate to any nonprofit organization, and none of the funds stay on campus.
Last...
“Archeophonics,” a new book of poems by English professor Peter Gizzi, has been nominated for a National Book Award.
Gizzi’s is one of 10 books nominated for the poetry award, for which five finalists will be named on Oct. 13. Winners will be announced on Nov. 16.
Gizzi will...
At a brief ceremony on Sept. 15 attended by campus and town officials, Five Colleges Inc. broke ground for its Library Annex on a site it owns in Hatfield.
When complete, the 35,000-square-foot building will provide shelving for up to 2.5 million items from the libraries of the campuses of the...
Yasu Morita, microbiology, has been awarded a renewable $40,000 biomedical research grant from the American Lung Association for a project, “Cell wall biogenesis in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: towards identifying druggable cell envelope proteins.”
He explains, “Developing new TB...
UMass Amherst researchers are developing a multi-disciplinary framework for offshore wind research, focusing on increasing innovation within projects and reducing costs by examining risks, finances and regulations associated with the industry.
The UMass Amherst Class of 2020 – 4,600-plus strong – gathered after their convocation on Sept. 5 to form the shape of the Commonwealth and create a memorable class photo.
Banu Subramaniam, women, gender and sexuality studies, has been awarded the 2016 Ludwik Fleck Prize for the book “Ghost Stories for Darwin: The Science of Variation and the Politics of Diversity” (2014...
Evan Ray, a postdoctoral researcher in biostatistics, recently attended a workshop on forecasting outbreaks of influenza at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta.
Ray, who attended with...
Thomas Huf, senior program manager for Facilities and Campus Services, will introduce a program on U.S.-Iran engagement sponsored by the Atlantic Council on Monday, Sept. 26 in Washington, D.C.
Called “Ties that...
Michael Knodler, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the UMass Transportation Center (UMTC), will speak on “The Intersection of Transportation and Public Policy” on...
Michael Greenberg, Nathan Marsh Pusey Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, will deliver the Sinauer Associates Distinguished Scientist Fall Lecture on Wednesday, Oct. 5 at 4 p.m. in 151 Integrative...
The graduate dean invites all graduate faculty to attend the final oral examinations for the doctoral candidates scheduled as follows:
Pratisha Joshi, Ph.D., Economics. Friday, Oct. 7, 9:30 a.m., 10th Floor Reading...
