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The aesthetic and function of UMass Amherst has changed dramatically since its establishment as a land-grant college in 1863. , students from the department of landscape architecture and regional planning (LARP) examine these changes, and what they mean for campus architecture, landscapes, and eco-friendly buildings.

There is a little-understood realm inside cells that cell biologist Tom Maresca likes to think of as the cell's dark matter, something like the largely unknown stuff that is so abundant in space.

Maresca recently received a four-year, $1.3 million grant renewal from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to use specialized tools to learn more about this less-studied inner universe of the cell.

“It’s a pretty good metaphor,” he says. “We know there’s a lot of it out there, but it’s difficult to study and defining its functions inside cells is complicated.”

����ӰԺ Amherst Chancellor Kumble R. Subbaswamy was joined by Greenfield Community College President Yves Salomon-Fernandez and Southern New Hampshire University President Paul J. LeBlanc for a panel discussion titled “Higher Education in a Time of Social Change” in the Carney Family Auditorium in Furcolo Hall on Monday, March 2.

Gloria DiFulvio, senior lecturer and the undergraduate program director for the Public Health Sciences major, attended a workshop, “Integrating Experiential Learning in Global Health and Public Health,” held in January in Costa Rica. The faculty development workshop, a collaboration of seven organizations, including the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) and the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), aimed to have its participants gain essential "how-to’s" of integrating experiential learning experiences into coursework and programs.

On September 9, 1919, 1,177 Boston police officers went on strike in hopes of gaining long-promised improvements in wages and working conditions. None of the strikers ever worked as Boston police officers again. Some were so ashamed that they spoke very little about their former jobs to their family, if at all.

On Sunday, March 29th, 2020, the Claire T. Carney Library Associates will be presenting its 14th annual authors' brunch at the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 151 Martine Street, Fall River. Please note the change of venue from previous years. Parking is available on site. Reservations are required no later than Wednesday, March 25th. The cost of the brunch is $45 with a 10% discount for reservations for tables of eight. Tickets may be purchased from Library Associates members or .

The stock ticker hanging in the Pulichino Tong Business Center atrium has been a blur of uncertainty in recent weeks, as fears of the coronavirus outbreak have sent global financial markets into a tailspin.

In the last week of February, as coronavirus cases began appearing in the United States, the Dow Jones industrial average plunged 12 percent, its worst week since the 2008 financial crisis. The Standard & Poor's 500 stock index and the Nasdaq composite index also suffered double-digit losses in a week that saw trillions of dollars in value erased from global markets.

Kira Tait, Ph.D. candidate in political science, has been named the winner of the 2020 Three Minute Thesis competition. Organized by the Graduate School, the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) challenges graduate students to describe their research in an engaging manner, using non-technical language, all in three minutes or less. Tait's presentation, "Roadblocks to Access: Perceptions of Law in Post-Apartheid South Africa," was also voted the People's Choice winner by audience members at the 3MT Campus Final on Feb. 28.

On Wednesday, March 11 at 6 p.m., historian and author Erika Lee will deliver the history department's 2020 Distinguished Annual Lecture. The lecture, titled "Xenophobia in America: How We Got Here and What's At Stake," will explore the history of nativism in the U.S. from the colonial era to the present day, explaining how xenophobia works, why it has endured and how it threatens America.

Sonya Atalay, associate professor in the department of anthropology, has edited the new book “Archaeologies of the Heart.”

Inspired by calls for a different way of doing archaeology, Atalay and co-editors Kisha Supernant, Jane Eva Baxter, and Natasha Lyons make a case for a heart-centered archaeological practice.

Heart-centered practice emerged in care-based disciplines, such as nursing and various forms of therapy. In archeology, it involves not studying the subject from an objective view but studying the world with the mind, body, heart and sprit.