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鈥
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The Integrated Concentration in Science (iCons) Program this month unveiled an online, web-based 鈥渋nnovation portal鈥 to showcase student research projects into real-world problems as a response to鈥
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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 麻豆视频 Medical Unit in New鈥
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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鈥檚 clear, though, is that COVID-19 is鈥, 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鈥, A:, I think we need to admit that these are just really hard questions, and they might even be questions where there isn鈥檛 one answer. One thing that鈥檚 important is that hospitals already have ethics鈥, Q: Aren鈥檛 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鈥檚 quality of life. Able-bodied people are especially bad at estimating the quality of life of people with disabilities鈥, Q: On the one hand, this pandemic seems like a great equalizer 鈥 everyone is vulnerable. On the other, it does seem to come down to resources. Homeless people, low-income people and people of color鈥, A:, You can鈥檛 shelter in place if you don鈥檛 have a place. Home isn鈥檛 a safe place to shelter for women and children at risk of domestic violence and for many LGBTQ people. Seventy percent of people who鈥, 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鈥檚 going to happen? No. But it鈥檚 possible. I do think many Americans are realizing, 鈥極h, wow! This is why universal鈥, 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鈥, Q: What kind of philosophical advice can you offer students right now?, A:, What I would say to them, if it鈥檚 any comfort, is that if they鈥檙e freaked out or they鈥檙e scared, they鈥檙e tracking. It鈥檚 such a strange time: We鈥檙e all together in this forced aloneness. It鈥檚 really鈥
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AMHERST, Mass 鈥 The university鈥檚 Board of Trustees unanimously voted April 15 to name the UMass Amherst Fine Arts Center (FAC) for the late Randolph W. 鈥淏ill鈥 Bromery, in honor of the former鈥
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AMHERST, Mass. 鈥 To help resource managers in the Northeast meet a climate change challenge 鈥 more than 100 new invasive plant species could expand into the area 鈥 麻豆视频鈥
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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鈥
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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鈥
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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鈥, Q: Why do you write poetry?, A:, Fundamentally, I think I write to examine and make sense of life 鈥 my own life and the life of the world 鈥 and to feel the freshness and grace and oddity of social, natural and inner worlds. Life鈥, Q: Why should people read poetry?, A:, I don鈥檛 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 鈥 these鈥, 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鈥, 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鈥檚 a craft. There are a lot of preconceptions that you have to undo. Poetry isn鈥檛 just writing鈥, 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鈥檓 teaching poetry as part of Intro to Creative Writing, we talk about syntax, line, image, repetition, voice and echo, etc. We鈥檒l look at more fixed forms like villanelles and sestinas, and I鈥, Q: How would you describe your experience as part of UML鈥檚 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鈥
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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鈥, THE 2020 $50K IDEA CHALLENGE WINNERS: , The Rist Campus-Wide DifferenceMaker (sponsored by Brian Rist 鈥77), $7,000: MyGrow Fabrix Significant Social Impact, $4,000: YPG Sutherland Innovative Technology Solution (sponsored by Andrew鈥
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