As previously announced, the Fine Arts Center has been hard at work shifting its programming online, with the goal of streaming performances, providing interactive virtual gallery experiences, and…
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The Integrated Concentration in Science (iCons) Program this month unveiled an online, web-based “innovation portal” to showcase student research projects into real-world problems as a response to…
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Nancy A. Anoruo, MD, MPH, a third-year resident in the Department of Medicine, has been working over the last three weeks as a medical contributor and journalist for the ABC News Medical Unit in New…
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Rationing health care resources during a pandemic is a complex undertaking, says Assoc. Prof. Hay-Carol Carol Hay of Philosophy landing page Philosophy . What’s clear, though, is that COVID-19 is…, Q: Different states and hospitals have come up with different guidelines for deciding who gets life-saving treatment in case of shortages. Nearly all of the plans prioritize children and pregnant…, A:, I think we need to admit that these are just really hard questions, and they might even be questions where there isn’t one answer. One thing that’s important is that hospitals already have ethics…, Q: Aren’t those front-line doctors the ones with the most information about who has the best chance to survive with a good quality of life?, A:, Research shows that we tend to overestimate our ability to predict other people’s quality of life. Able-bodied people are especially bad at estimating the quality of life of people with disabilities…, Q: On the one hand, this pandemic seems like a great equalizer – everyone is vulnerable. On the other, it does seem to come down to resources. Homeless people, low-income people and people of color…, A:, You can’t shelter in place if you don’t have a place. Home isn’t a safe place to shelter for women and children at risk of domestic violence and for many LGBTQ people. Seventy percent of people who…, Q: As a moral and political philosopher, do you think this represents an opportunity to address some of these inequalities?, A:, It would be great to chip away at some of these inequalities. Am I optimistic that’s going to happen? No. But it’s possible. I do think many Americans are realizing, ‘Oh, wow! This is why universal…, Q: What are our individual ethical responsibilities during a pandemic?, A:, Many of our most pressing obligations right now are obligations of care: take care of yourself; take care of your family; take care of your community by not putting yourself or others unnecessarily…, Q: What kind of philosophical advice can you offer students right now?, A:, What I would say to them, if it’s any comfort, is that if they’re freaked out or they’re scared, they’re tracking. It’s such a strange time: We’re all together in this forced aloneness. It’s really…
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AMHERST, Mass – The university’s Board of Trustees unanimously voted April 15 to name the UMass Amherst Fine Arts Center (FAC) for the late Randolph W. “Bill” Bromery, in honor of the former…
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AMHERST, Mass. – To help resource managers in the Northeast meet a climate change challenge – more than 100 new invasive plant species could expand into the area – University of Massachusetts…
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In a Thursday email to the campus community, Chancellor Kumble R. Subbaswamy thanked on-site campus staff for their continued service and faculty for their swift transition to remote learning. He…
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Everything is pleasant inside the East Campus Greenhouse Rist Urban Agriculture Greenhouse . The air is warm and tranquil, filled with fresh, earthy notes from the spring seedlings of tomato plants…
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Shortly before Assoc. Prof. Lim-Sandra Sandra Lim completed her Ph.D. in English page English literature, she decided to take a chance on her poetry and apply to M.F.A. programs in creative…, Q: Why do you write poetry?, A:, Fundamentally, I think I write to examine and make sense of life – my own life and the life of the world – and to feel the freshness and grace and oddity of social, natural and inner worlds. Life…, Q: Why should people read poetry?, A:, I don’t think poetry should be foisted upon people like a multivitamin or offered up as some sugary treat. It can lend depth of feeling to some people, or a clarity of perception to others – these…, Q: What poems or poets do you find yourself returning to again and again, and what are you reading right now?, A:, I often go back to Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens, George Oppen or Sylvia Plath, to name a few. Right now, it is hard to concentrate, but I have been thumbing through the works of some…, Q: How do you teach creative writing?, A:, One of the first things, especially when you teach younger adults, is to help them understand that it’s a craft. There are a lot of preconceptions that you have to undo. Poetry isn’t just writing…, Q: Much of your work is written in free verse. Do you teach structured forms like the sonnet to students as a way of demonstrating the tools of the trade?, A:, When I’m teaching poetry as part of Intro to Creative Writing, we talk about syntax, line, image, repetition, voice and echo, etc. We’ll look at more fixed forms like villanelles and sestinas, and I…, Q: How would you describe your experience as part of UML’s creative writing faculty?, A:, I feel so lucky to be surrounded by terrific colleagues: fellow Dietz-Maggie poet Maggie Dietz and fiction and nonfiction writers Dubus-Andre Andre Dubus III and Stanton-Maureen Maureen Stanton…
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An impassioned pitch for a business making sustainable, smart textiles and fabric pots for agricultural and horticultural use captured $7,000 and the top Rist Campus-Wide link this for…, THE 2020 $50K IDEA CHALLENGE WINNERS: , The Rist Campus-Wide DifferenceMaker (sponsored by Brian Rist ’77), $7,000: MyGrow Fabrix Significant Social Impact, $4,000: YPG Sutherland Innovative Technology Solution (sponsored by Andrew…
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