THE COLLEGE CONNECTION

Jennifer Clarvoe’s second book of poems, “Counter-Amores,” appeared in 2011. Her first book, “Invisible Tender,” won the Poets Out Loud Prize and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. J.D. McClatchy writes, “Clarvoe’s canny perspectives, glistening...

Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Professor Laurie Brown March 11, 2013 4:00 pm Mullins Center Room: Massachusetts Room UMass Amherst Campus Professor Laurie Brown of the Department of Geosciences will be presenting the prestigious Distinguished Faculty Lecture.  Her talk entitled,...

The Draft and Other Lessons From Vietnam , Monday, March 11, 4:30 p.m., Neilson Browsing Room Lecture by Tom Weiner, author of Called to Serve: Stories of Men and Women Confronted by the Vietnam War Draft. Author bio: Tom Weiner is married to Susan Dudek and the father of four...

Mary Robinson, the former President of Ireland, will speak about climate change as a human rights issue at Mount Holyoke College on March 9. She will sign copies of her book, Everybody Matters: My Life Giving Voice, following her lecture, which is free and open to the public. Ms....

Afiya S. Zia is a feminist researcher and activist based in Karachi, Pakistan. She has published in scholarly journals and recently written in the Guardian on the topic of her lecture. Presently she is working on a book titled ‘Faith and Feminism’. Afiya Zia will trace the...

Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Professor R. Thomas Zoeller February 25, 2013 4:00 pm Mullins Center Room: Massachusetts Room UMass Amherst Campus Free admission Professor R. Thomas Zoeller, of the Department of Biology will be presenting the Distinguished Faculty Lecture. His...

Professor Calestous Juma of Harvard’s Kennedy School will give the inaugural lecture in the PERI African Development Policy Program’s Speaker Series on “GROWING AFRICA: Agricultural Innovation and Economic Transformation”. Calestous is one of the leading scholars on...

UMass alum Dan Keefe ’10 is a community organizer and resource developer at Out Now, a youth-led, adult-advised queer youth organization in Springfield that works to promote harm reduction, self-determination, and community building through anti-oppression organizing. Prior...