Matt Naegar, a senior trumpet major, recently performed as part of this year’s Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Jazz Orchestra (MACJO) in Rockville, MD. Seniors Jacob Kaplan, saxophone; Ben Powell; guitar, as well as freshman Coleman Hover, piano, were chosen as alternates for the prestigious event.

On Tuesday, Feb. 25, the UMass Amherst Department of Music and Dance will present its third annual Bezanson Legacy Concert featuring works by composers with ties to the university’s music program. The event is held each year to recognize the legacy of acclaimed composer and former department chair Philip Bezanson. The concert will take place at 7:30 p.m. in Bezanson Recital Hall, and is free and open to the public.

AMHERST, Mass. ­– In a new paper, climate scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution propose that massive amounts of melting sea ice in the Arctic drained into the North Atlantic and disrupted climate-steering currents, thus playing an important role in causing past abrupt climate change after the last Ice Age, from about 8,000 to 13,000 years ago. Details of how they tested this idea for the first time are online now in Geology.

AMHERST, Mass. – Exposure in the womb to phthalates, a group of endocrine-disrupting chemicals present in cosmetics and other common household products, was associated with autistic traits in boys, ages 3 and 4, but not in girls, according to a new study led by a University of Massachusetts Amherst environmental epidemiologist.

The researchers also found that this link between phthalates and autistic traits was not apparent in children whose mothers had taken the recommended dose of folic acid during the first trimester of their pregnancy.

The University of Massachusetts Boston’s chapter of the NAACP honored Charles Desmond, a Bronze and Silver star recipient and long-time champion for underprivileged students, with the MLK Living Legacy Award at the Salute to Those Who Served event. Also presented by the William Joiner Institute for the Study of War and Social Consequences, Salute to Those Who Served celebrated Black History Month and the value of serving one’s country, both as a soldier and a civilian.

The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth will undergo a comprehensive evaluation visit on March 22-25 by a team representing the New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE). NECHE was formerly the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC). The New England Commission of Higher Education is one of seven accrediting commissions in the United States that provide institutional accreditation on a regional basis.

During the Ebola epidemic that killed more than 11,000 people in western Africa from 2014 to 2016, Asst. Prof. of Philosophy Nicholas Evans began researching ethical and effective public health responses to life-threatening infectious diseases.

What’s the first thing you should do when sitting down for a meal with business associates? If your job interview includes a lunch or dinner, who picks up the check? And what do spaghetti and cherry tomatoes have in common with politics and religion?

Career Services answered these important questions and more for a capacity crowd of 72 students at “Dine, Dress and Network Like a Pro,” its popular annual event held recently at Saab ETIC’s Perry Atrium.

Albert “Albie” Sherman, the longtime vice chancellor for university relations at UMass Medical School whose service to the commonwealth inspired the Massachusetts legislature to name a building on campus in his honor, died on Monday, Feb. 17, at the age of 81.

Cori Bargmann, PhD, head of science at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), head of the Lulu and Anthony Wang Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior, and the Torsten N. Wiesel Professor at The Rockefeller University, will serve as speaker of the 47th Commencement Exercises at UMass Medical School on May 31, according to Chancellor Michael F. Collins.