21 5 / 2013
We’re proud to be offering the first MOOC at UMass Amherst, a course called “Building a Basic Website.” Check out the course page if you’re interested!
15 5 / 2013
Via doree, here’s a list of 65 Books You Need To Read In Your 20s from Buzzfeed if you’re looking for some summer reading!
14 5 / 2013
Check out photos of Journalism and Communication graduates at the SBS Graduation Ceremony on May 11. Photo above by Brian McDermott.
14 5 / 2013
Here’s a picture from the archive of the campus pond before the bridge and the Fine Arts Center lobby. Photo posted by f***yeaumass.
09 5 / 2013
In most states, the highest paid state employee is a sports coach– but not in Massachusetts, where the Chancellor of the Medical School has that distinction. The graphic is via Deadspin.
(via statographics)
06 5 / 2013
Here’s a Watergate Video Game, where you play Bob Woodward. It’s 8-bit and a little bit nuts.
(via poynterinstitute)
29 4 / 2013
Check out this week’s Monday Memo, with information on Commencement. And seniors, join us Thursday, May 2, a noon for the Senior Lunch, with Bub’s BBQ and free t-shirts! Photo of UMass cake by girlwithatruck.
24 4 / 2013
Check out UMass Amherst Economics graduate student Thomas Herndon on The Colbert Report last night. Herdon’s paper debunked a study by two Harvard economists often cited by those who wanted austerity government policies– in part because he found a spreadsheet error.
