AMHERST, Mass. - University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers surveyed over 2,500 essential workers in Massachusetts between April 24 and May 1 about their working conditions. Six weeks into the COVID-19 shutdown, they found that large numbers of essential workers felt stressed, unsafe, and financially insecure.
To the UMass community,
I share my thoughts today not just as the leader of the University of Massachusetts system, but as a human being stunned and deeply saddened by the brutal murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.
Lee Pelton, the president of Emerson College, is a valued colleague. We recently served together on a forum examining the future of higher education. During these recent days, many have expressed pain, sorrow and outrage in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd, but few have done so as powerfully as Dr. Pelton has in this statement.
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The UMass Amherst Counseling and Psychological Health Center (CCPH) is offering several online support groups and community conversations for members of the campus community over the summer.
Screening is currently open for support groups and they will begin once a large enough group has been screened. Community conversations are now underway and registration is open.
Available support groups:
Women's Graduate Support Group
Wednesdays 3:30-5 p.m.
AMHERST, Mass. – Public wireless service is now available in a new outdoor location in the southwest area of the UMass Amherst campus. Anyone with a wireless-ready device can connect to the unrestricted UMASS-OPEN network in Lot 11 near McGuirk Alumni Stadium.
BOSTON — Rebecca Herst, director of the Sustainable Solutions Lab (SSL) at the University of Massachusetts Boston, has been awarded the 2020 Zuckerberg Endowed Leadership Prize for her work in climate adaptation, preparing marginalized communities for the effects of climate change and developing sustainable and equitable solutions that prioritize their needs.
An entrepreneur who started a plastic-free product shop while a student at UMass Boston has received the top two honors a graduating undergraduate at the university can receive: the John F. Kennedy Award for Academic Excellence and the “29 Who Shine” award.
Maria Vasco, 22, is an environmental studies and sustainability major in the School for the Environment and a political science minor. Born in Cali, Colombia, she’s lived in East Boston since she was four. She’s in the Honors College and she has a 3.8 GPA.
Signs of sex trafficking aren’t hard to find if you know where to look. Massage parlors are tucked into urban and suburban strip malls. Escort services advertise online. Internet porn is just a click away.
But sex trafficking is just part of the problem. Labor trafficking is even more prevalent, although less understood, because victims are working out of view on farms and in factories, as domestic servants or on construction sites.
For nearly three hours on the last night of spring semester’s finals, current and former students of the Music Department gathered online with faculty and friends to cut loose in song. Even the department head chimed in.