UMass Amherst has been recognized for demonstrating leadership in innovative decarbonization by the Leading by Example (LBE) program, run by the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources.
As part of the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 20, the LBE program honored the sustainability accomplishments at state agencies and campuses over the past decade in a series of email newsletters.
Continuing its digital offerings, the UMass Amherst Fine Arts Center has announced a live family-friendly bedtime reading on Facebook featuring Australia-based Monkey Baa Theatre Company. Monkey Baa will join the Fine Arts Center on its Facebook page Tuesday, May 5 at 7 p.m. to read “Diary of a Wombat,” the iconic children's book that the theater company was meant to present as a live stage production at the FAC.
On Friday, May 1 at 7:30 p.m., the Magic Triangle Jazz Series, a program of the UMass Fine Arts Center, presents a virtual performance and talk by the renowned percussionist and singer Román Díaz. This virtual event will be in mostly in Spanish, with English subtitles. Román Díaz and his Rumba Ensemble was originally scheduled to perform at UMass Amherst on March 26.
Earlier this month, four UMass Boston students each virtually received $5,000 from the Krystle Campbell Scholarship Fund. These scholarships honor the legacy of Krystle Campbell, the alumna from Medford who was killed in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, providing support to undergraduate College of Management students.
Earlier this April, UMass Boston alumnae, College of Management students, and Boston executives took part in the first event of the Women Beacons of Business Program: a virtual book club featuring Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In for Graduates.
Sai Patel loves WUML.
So when the junior computer engineering major got a call from Tom Tiger, operations manager for the university’s student-run radio station, he didn’t hesitate to help.
WUML (91.5 FM) needed to shift its operations online as the campus shut down in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. Patel was ready to jump in.
It started small. Molly Teece and David Barry, co-presidents and founders of the UML 3D Club, decided to make face masks using the 3D printers that they own. In the early days of the COVID-19 quarantine, they produced eight masks in their apartments in Lowell.
It was slow going. Each mask took four hours to print, but the students, both junior plastics engineering majors, were not discouraged.
Duy “Jeremy” Cung is in limbo.
The senior mechanical engineering major is about to graduate – and he had planned to return home to Vietnam to interview for jobs.
Graduate student Sam Codyer ’14 doesn’t have a lot of bandwidth at the moment. On top of working full-time from home in Fitchburg while finishing his final two courses for his master’s degree in public health, he is about to become a father.
But when Codyer heard that the commonwealth of Massachusetts was looking for public health students to volunteer with its COVID-19 contact tracing efforts, he made the time.
From doubling the number of electric vehicle charging stations on campus to increasing incentives for energy-efficient infrastructure projects, the university is working with its utility provider, National Grid, on new and innovative ways to advance its sustainability and cost-saving goals.
In February, the university and National Grid entered into a strategic energy management partnership, a three-year agreement that earmarks more than $500,000 in incentives for campus projects that help save electricity and natural gas.