The Massachusetts History Alliance honored Interim Dean of University Libraries Joanne Riley with the 2019 Bay State Legacy Award at its conference in Worcester on Monday. The award honors individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the interpretation and presentation of Massachusetts history.
The 28 members of the Junior Faculty Development Program Class of 2019 were honored for their achievements during a graduation ceremony at UMass Medical School on May 23. The celebration recognized completion of the year-long program as well as progress on individual projects under the guidance of senior faculty mentors, who were also recognized at the event.
The weather was perfect for gardening on Monday, July 1, when dozens of UMass Medical School students planted four newly built raised beds with a variety of vegetables, herbs and flowers. The launch heralds new growth for nutrition-focused, wellness-oriented initiatives that will be cultivated through the student-run community garden.
Crushed or pulverized eggshells have dozens of practical uses – as a natural calcium supplement, a coffee sweetener, a treatment for minor skin irritations, a nontoxic abrasive cleaner, or for garden compost and pest control, just to name a few.
Each year, the Russell Sage Foundation invites a small number of scholars to its New York headquarters to investigate topics in social and behavioral sciences. Starting in September, Assistant Professor of Sociology Sofya Aptekar will be one of the foundation’s 15 visiting scholars.
This year's UMass For the Kids (FTK) Dance Marathon has recently been recognized for being in the top 10 colleges and universities for fundraising monetary growth by the Children's Miracle Network.
The FTK Dance Marathon raised over $280,000 for Baystate Children’s Hospital on Saturday, April 13 in the Mullins Center. That is almost $70,000 more than last year, adding to the $490,000 the event has raised over the past four years.
BOSTON – Eight University of Massachusetts students have been awarded $5,000 scholarships from the James J. Karam Scholarship Fund, in recognition of their academic achievements and campus involvement.
The scholarship awards were celebrated at a private Thursday night dinner hosted in the students’ honor.
AMHERST, Mass. – Maple syrup production, one of New England’s cultural icons and a key economic component of the region, will shift northward during the next century due to rising temperatures that will drastically change the tapping season and reduce the quality of the sap, a new study says. The report, from researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the U.S.
AMHERST, Mass. – A newly identified genus and species of worm-like, freshwater clam, commonly known as a shipworm, eats rock and expels sand as scat while it burrows like an ecosystem engineer in the Abatan River in the Philippines.
A UMass Dartmouth scientist contributed to research recently published in Nature Climate Change, indicating that many east coast fishing communities face risks due to changing ocean temperatures that are altering the location of fish populations.