Nov. 17, 2009
AMHERST, Mass. – Experiments at the Pioneer Valley Life Sciences Institute (PVLSI) at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Mass., reported in a recent British Journal of Cancer, confirm that University of Massachusetts Amherst chemical engineer Neil Forbes’ delivery and trigger system has for the first time successfully placed TRAIL, a cancer-fighting protein, directly into solid tumors and on cue, turned it on. The treatment improved the 30-day survival time of mice with mammary tumors from 0 to 100 percent. More...
Fluorescent Microscopy is the Topic of First Gupta Lecture at UMass Amherst on November 19
Nov. 16, 2009
AMHERST, Mass. – Christopher Salthouse, the new Dev and Linda Gupta Assistant Professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, will deliver the first Gupta Lecture on Thursday, Nov. 19, at 4 p.m. in the Massachusetts Room of the Mullins Center. A reception follows the talk. The event is free and open to the public. More...
UMass Amherst Psychological Services Center Offers PTSD Program
Nov. 16, 2009
AMHERST, Mass. – The Psychological Services Center (PSC) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is now offering services to veterans suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), focusing on those with experiences living or working in high-risk environments. More...
UMass Amherst Labor Center Hosts Conference on Immigration and the Future of Work in Massachusetts
Nov. 13, 2009
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DATE: Friday, Nov. 20, 2009
TIME: 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
PLACE: Gordon Hall, 418 North Pleasant St., Amherst
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UMass Amherst Breaks Ground for $12.5-Million Police Building
Nov. 13, 2009
AMHERST, Mass. – The University of Massachusetts Amherst broke ground today for a new, $12.5 million police station. The building, located at 585 East Pleasant St. across from the North Fire Station, will be one of the most advanced, energy-efficient structures on campus. More...
Nov. 12, 2009
AMHERST, Mass. – The Environmental Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst holds its final fall 2009 Environmental Lecture Series on Monday, Nov. 16 with “Climate-Change Denial and Conservatism: Exploring the Connections,” a talk by Riley Dunlap, Regents Professor of Sociology, Oklahoma State University. The lecture will be in the Cape Cod Lounge at the Student Union at 3:30 p.m. and is free and open to all. More...
Nov. 11, 2009
AMHERST, Mass. - We are pleased with this outcome. The administration at UMass Amherst has consistently questioned the appropriateness of this speaker in an academic setting. Without equivocation we have condemned his past violent acts and the notion that violence is an appropriate way to accomplish social change. More...
University Administration Statement on Ray Luc Levasseur Talk
Nov. 10, 2009
AMHERST, Mass. - The university administration does not in any way support the presentation by Ray Luc Levasseur and was very clear in supporting the library’s recent decision to cancel its talk. The university administration did not invite this speaker and would not invite him. More...
Next Hillside Salon Will Be Held at the Eric Carle Museum in Amherst on Nov. 17
Nov. 9, 2009
AMHERST, Mass. – The third in a series of monthly Hillside Salons hosted by Sabine Holub, wife of Chancellor Robert C. Holub of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 17 from 6-8 p.m. at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, 125 West Bay Road, Amherst. It will feature one of the museum’s architects, Kevin Chrobak of Juster Pope Frazier, Northampton. More...
UMass Officials to Break Ground for New Police Station Nov. 13
Nov. 9, 2009
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DATE: Friday, Nov. 13, 2009
TIME: 1 p.m.
PLACE: 585 East Pleasant St., Amherst, opposite the Amherst Fire Department North Station.
Officials from the University of Massachusetts Amherst will break ground for a new $12.5 million police station on Nov. 13 at 1 p.m. The 27,130-square-foot complex will serve as the new home of the 76-member UMass Amherst Police Department. More...
New DVD Collection of Last Films from East Germany Released by DEFA Film Library at UMass Amherst
Nov. 6, 2009
AMHERST, Mass. – “The Wende Flicks Collection,” a new, 12-DVD set of feature films and documentaries from the former East Germany is being released Nov. 9 by the DEFA Film Library at the University of Massachusetts Amherst to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. More...
Author of New York Times Best-Seller ‘Look Me in the Eye’ Speaks at UMass Amherst Nov. 16
Nov. 6, 2009
AMHERST, Mass. – John Elder Robison, author of The New York Times best-seller “Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s,” will speak at the University of Massachusetts Amherst on Monday, Nov. 16 at 5:30 p.m. in the Bernie Dallas Room in Goodell Building. More...
Nov. 5, 2009
AMHERST, Mass. – A forum for candidates running for the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of Edward M. Kennedy will be held at the University of Massachusetts Amherst on Sunday, Nov. 8 at 7:30 p.m. in Bowker Auditorium. The forum is sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts and public radio stations WFCR and WNNZ. It is free and open to the public. More...
UMass Amherst Libraries Cancel Talk by Ray Luc Levasseur
Nov. 5, 2009
AMHERST, Mass. – The University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries has canceled a Nov. 12 talk by Ray Luc Levasseur, a former leader of the United Freedom Front. More...
Nov. 5, 2009
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Event: League of Women Voters of Massachusetts U.S. Senate Candidates’ Forum
Date: Sunday, Nov. 8, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
The event is free and open to the public
Participants:
Democrats: U.S. Rep. Michael Capuano, Alan Khazei, and Stephen Pagliuca; Republicans: State Sen. Scott Brown and Jack E. Robinson have committed to attending.
Attorney General Martha Coakley has not committed due to a schedule conflict More...
Clean Energy Connections Conference and Opportunity Fair is Set for Tuesday, Nov. 10 in Springfield
Nov. 4, 2009
UMass Amherst convenes 2nd annual green economic development event
AMHERST, Mass. – Job coaches say networking is a key strategy for plugging into a new career, and the new green energy economy promises many fresh opportunities. Organizers of the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Clean Energy Connections Conference, set for Tuesday, Nov. 10 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Springfield’s MassMutual Center, say it should provide superb networking opportunities because representatives of more than 50 area businesses, agencies and higher education programs are expected to attend. More...
Nov. 4, 2009
AMHERST, Mass. – As modern systems increasingly rely on networks of small, specialized computers and sensors to operate train and bus systems or monitor weather, for example, testing performance and reliability at scale becomes more important. A group of University of Massachusetts Amherst computer scientists recently joined with 61 other teams nationwide to participate in building and deploying a virtual laboratory funded by the National Science Foundation for experimenting with future Internet architectures, or networks. More...
New Plans for New WORLD Theater to Be Explored
Nov. 4, 2009
AMHERST, Mass. – The Fine Arts Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has engaged theater artist Talvin Wilks to explore the future direction for the New WORLD Theater. Operations at New WORLD Theater were suspended at the end of September 2009 due to budget cuts, even as the theater company received new grant awards from the Ford, Surdna and the Nathan Cummings foundations, totaling $375,000. More...
Nov. 3, 2009
AMHERST, Mass. – The Master of Fine Arts Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is among the best graduate creative writing programs in the country, according to Poets & Writers Magazine. More...
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Nov. 3, 2009
AMHERST, Mass. – Ralph Whitehead, Jr., journalism professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, will participate in a forum with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on the challenges facing the American middle class in the 21st century on Thursday, Nov. 5 at the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C. More...
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M.V. Lee Badgett Gives Distinguished Faculty Lecture at UMass Amherst Nov. 9
Nov. 3, 2009
AMHERST, Mass. – M.V. Lee Badgett, professor of economics and director of the Center for Public Policy and Administration at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, will deliver the first lecture in the 2009-10 Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series on Monday, Nov. 9. The talk will be held in the Bernie Dallas Room in Goodell Hall at 4 p.m. and is free and open to the public. More...
Mount Kilimanjaro’s Ice Fields and Glaciers Continue to Shrink, says UMass Amherst Geoscientist
Nov. 2, 2009
AMHERST, Mass. – Ice fields on Africa’s Mount Kilimanjaro are rapidly shrinking and thinning, according to a research team including geoscientist Douglas Hardy of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with colleagues at Ohio State University. They report in today’s online early edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that “new aerial photo analysis shows that 26 percent of the area covered by ice in 2000 is now ice-free and whereas 79 percent of the area covered with ice in 1912 was ice-free in 2000, 85 percent now is.” More...
Nov. 2, 2009
AMHERST, Mass. – Two decades after the Berlin Wall fell, the University of Massachusetts Amherst is commemorating the historic event that led to Germany’s reunification with a reception, film screening and the opening of a public history exhibit on Tuesday, Nov. 10. More...
Oct. 29, 2009
AMHERST, Mass. – Writing in the latest issue of Physical Review Letters, theoretical physicists Boris Svistunov and Nikolai Prokofiev of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with their student Gunes Soyler, propose a new explanation of certain striking properties of solid helium 4. More...
Oct. 29, 2009
AMHERST, Mass. – The sometimes bitter conflicts over the right to possess and interpret archaeological and human remains from the world’s political and cultural hotspots are the focus of an upcoming workshop hosted by the newly established UMass Amherst Center for Heritage and Society. More...
‘No Butts About It Day’ at UMass Amherst on Nov. 8
Oct. 28, 2009
AMHERST, Mass. – The fourth annual “No Butts About It Day” at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, when members of the community with gloves and trash bags hunt for and dispose of cigarette butts littering the campus, takes place Sunday, Nov. 8 from noon – 3 p.m. More...
Oct. 28, 2009
AMHERST, Mass. – A forum for candidates running for the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of Edward M. Kennedy will be held at the University of Massachusetts Amherst on Sunday, Nov. 8 at 7:30 p.m. in Bowker Auditorium. The forum is sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts and public radio stations WFCR and WNNZ. It is free and open to the public. More...
Oct. 27, 2009
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Oct. 27, 2009
AMHERST, Mass. – Most of the 5 million annual visitors to the Grand Canyon leave with plenty of photographs of the 2-billion-year-old northern Arizona landmark, but with little knowledge of its geologic history. Mike Williams, a geoscientist at University of Massachusetts Amherst, is aiming to change that by creating a walkable trail that teaches visitors about the vastness of geologic time. More...
Walking Tours Focus on Campus Safety at UMass Amherst
Oct. 26, 2009
AMHERST, Mass. – The annual “Walk for Light” tour series led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst Police Department and residence hall security will begin Wednesday, Nov. 4, at 6 p.m. on the front steps of the Student Union. This is the first of several prearranged walking tours around different areas of campus where the UMass police department works with faculty, staff and student groups to identify safety related maintenance concerns, as well as dark areas on campus that could benefit from additional lighting. More...
UMass Conference Urges Young Women to Seek Engineering Careers
Oct. 23, 2009
AMHERST, Mass. – More than 250 women students, teachers and guidance counselors from high schools in 50 Massachusetts towns and cities will gather in the Campus Center Auditorium at the University of Massachusetts Amherst on Thursday, Oct. 29 at 8:30 a.m. for the annual Women in Engineering Career Day Conference. More...
UMass Amherst Ranked a 'Top Producer' of Fulbright students
Oct. 23, 2009
AMHERST, Mass. – The University of Massachusetts Amherst was a “Top Producer of Fulbright Students” among research universities for the 2008-09 academic year, according to a ranking published Oct. 19 in the Chronicle of Higher Education. More...
Oct. 23, 2009
AMHERST, Mass. – Beth Noveck, director of the Obama administration’s Open Government Initiative, will give a talk on “Open Government Transparency, Participation, and Collaboration” on Friday, Oct. 30 from noon to 1:30 p.m. in room 108 of the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The event is open to the public. More...
Oct. 23, 2009
AMHERST, Mass. – Hydrogen fuel, because its only byproduct is steam, should be the ultimate in green alternatives to fossil fuels, but it hasn’t delivered on its promise yet because of one enormous stumbling block, storage. Now a team of chemical engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has developed a computational model that shows that carbon nanotubes may offer a surprising solution. Results are presented in the current online issue of the journal, Applied Physics Letters. More...
UMass Amherst Resurrects Edgar Allan Poe for Halloween
Oct. 22, 2009
AMHERST, Mass. – To mark the birth of Edgar Allen Poe in Boston 200 years ago, the University of Massachusetts Amherst is hosting a Halloween weekend conference, “Poe and the Writers and Artists of New England,” to examine and celebrate the writer’s influence on the region’s culture. More...
UMass Amherst Innovation & Entrepreneurship Day on Saturday, Oct. 24
Oct. 21, 2009
AMHERST, Mass. – Business and technology experts will discuss what the current economic crisis means for business entrepreneurs as well as building a “high impact” business during the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Innovation & Entrepreneurship Day on Saturday, Oct. 24, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Room 201 of the Isenberg School of Management. More...
Medicine Panel, Including UMass Food Scientist, Recommends New Standards for School Meals
Oct. 20, 2009
AMHERST, Mass. – The National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program should adopt a new set of nutrient targets and standards for menu planning, says a new expert report released today by the Institute of Medicine (IOM). Yeonhwa Park, assistant professor of food science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, was the only food scientist on the 15-member national Committee on Nutrition Standards for National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. More...
Vacant Apartment Complex at UMass Amherst to Be Razed
Oct. 20, 2009
AMHERST, Mass. – Demolition of the long-vacant University Apartments complex at the University of Massachusetts Amherst will begin next month, according to campus officials. More...
UMass Amherst Breaks Ground for New Marching Band Building
Oct. 17, 2009
AMHERST, Mass. – The University of Massachusetts Amherst broke ground today for a $5.7 million Minuteman Marching Band Building. The new, energy-efficient facility will serve as the permanent home for the 300-member band known as “The Power and Class of New England.” It is one of only 27 collegiate marching bands nationally to receive the Sudler Trophy given by the John Philip Sousa Foundation. More...
UMass Amherst Researcher Seeks to Save the Eastern Hemlock Forest, One Glade at a Time
Oct. 16, 2009
AMHERST, Mass. – Eastern woodlands in the United States are under siege, according to experts, from an insect called the hemlock woolly adelgid, which has already laid waste to hemlock trees in the Southern Appalachians and is now threatening hemlock stands farther north, in Pennsylvania, New York and New England. More...
Groundbreaking for New Minuteman Marching Band Building Set for Saturday, Oct. 17 at 1 p.m.
Oct. 15, 2009
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DATE: Saturday, Oct. 17, 2009
TIME: 1 p.m.
PLACE: 151 Grinnell Road, off Commonwealth Avenue and adjacent to the UMass Amherst police station.
Officials from the University of Massachusetts Amherst will break ground for a new $5.7 million Minuteman Marching Band Building, which will serve as the permanent home for the band known as “The Power and Class of New England.” George N. Parks, band director, says in addition to the nearly 400 members of the band who will be at the event, he expects a significant number of band alumni and friends to be at the ceremony. More...
Oct. 15, 2009
AMHERST, Mass. –The Environmental Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst continues its fall 2009 Environmental Lecture Series with “Reading and Conserving New England: Insights from History and Ecology,” a talk by David Foster on Tuesday, Oct. 27 at 3:30 p.m. in the Student Union’s Cape Cod Lounge. The lecture is free and open to all. More...
Oct. 15, 2009
AMHERST, Mass. – Though elements of the economy are stabilizing after the recent downturn, unemployment remains high and many people are looking into second or third careers in the new green energy economy. A practical day-long event, the “Clean Energy Connections Conference and Opportunity Fair,” organized by the University of Massachusetts Amherst and set for Tuesday, Nov. 10 at the MassMutual Center in Springfield, will provide green energy career and business development information. More...
Oct. 15, 2009
AMHERST, Mass. – Baby boomers may be popularly portrayed as whiners, complainers and narcissists, but a new study by a University of Massachusetts Amherst psychology professor says the 50-somethings are getting a bad rap. More...
UMass Amherst Announces Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series for 2009-10
Oct. 14, 2009
AMHERST, Mass. – The University of Massachusetts Amherst has announced its 2009-10 Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series. The first talk will be held in the Bernie Dallas Room in Goodell Hall, with the other three in the Massachusetts Room of the Mullins Center. All lectures are at 4 p.m. and are free and open to the public. More...
Second ‘Hillside Salon’ Art Gathering Will Include Dance at UMass Chancellor’s Home
Oct. 14, 2009
AMHERST, Mass. – The second in a series of monthly Hillside Salons at the campus home of Sabine and Robert Holub, chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, will be held on Tuesday evening, Oct. 20. Organized in cooperation with the University Gallery, the arts gathering will be from 6 to 8 p.m. More...
Oct. 13, 2009
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DATE: Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009
TIME: Starting at 8 a.m.
PLACE: Parking lot at Bertucci’s restaurant on East Pleasant Street in Amherst and walking to Wildwood Elementary School
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German Filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger to Attends Screenings During Oct. 17 Visit to Five Colleges
Oct. 9, 2009
AMHERST, Mass. – German filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger will attend the screenings of two of her films Oct. 17 as the Five Colleges host a film series devoted to her work. More...
Commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall Begins at UMass Amherst
Oct. 9, 2009
AMHERST, Mass. – A semester-long series of events marking the historic fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 is being presented at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. More...
UMass Amherst Alumna and NASA Astronaut Cady Coleman to Speak Oct. 13
Oct. 8, 2009
AMHERST, Mass. – NASA astronaut and University of Massachusetts Amherst alumna Catherine “Cady” Coleman will give a public talk, “International Space Station Bound: A Day in the Life of a Scientist Astronaut,” on Tuesday, Oct. 13 at 4 p.m. in Room 119 of E Lab II on the Amherst campus. The event is free and open to the public and a reception follows the talk. More...
