A virtual celebration for the class of 2020 on Friday, May 8, the day commencement would have occurred, has been announced. Details will follow, and individual schools and colleges are expected to announce virtual activities and events to commemorate seniors’ years at UMass Amherst.
This online event is not a substitute for an on-campus celebration, which will still take place sometime after restrictions on large gatherings are lifted.
The UMass Amherst Libraries recently raised more than $5,300 for the campus’s Student Care and Emergency Response Fund (SCERF) with a unique campaign featuring Annette Vadnais, student success and outreach librarian.
AMHERST, Mass. – UMass Amherst will join nationwide tributes to honor COVID-19 pandemic frontline workers beginning Wednesday, April 15, by illuminating two top floors of the W. E. B. Du Bois Library with blue lights as well as offering complimentary pansies to on-site campus employees.
AMHERST, Mass. – A type of damage in soft materials and tissue called cavitation is one of the least-studied phenomena in physics, materials science and biology, say expert observers. But strong evidence suggesting that cavitation occurs in the brain during sudden impact leading to traumatic brain injury (TBI) has accelerated interest recently, say materials scientist Alfred Crosby at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and his team.
Ten UMass students were recently awarded fellowships through the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). With an average acceptance rate of 16%, these competitive fellowships provide financial support for graduate education in sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields.
BOSTON – Although the course of the coronavirus crisis may be difficult to predict, University of Massachusetts President Marty Meehan today said that students and their families can count on the campuses of the UMass system being “on duty” this fall.
Mayor Marty Walsh recently established the COVID-19 Health Inequities Task Force—a 24-member panel that includes UMass Boston professors Paul Watanabe and Lorna Rivera—to review data and provide guidance on addressing imbalances in minority representation among those affected by the disease.
Dear campus community,
The University of Massachusetts Boston recently selected Quito Swan to be the new director of the William Monroe Trotter Institute for the Study of Black Culture. Swan, who joined UMass Boston this past September as a tenured full professor of Africana Studies, succeeded Barbara Lewis five months later, after she retired.