Consider kicking off Black History Month tonight with the Worcester County Poetry Association, who are hosting a reading of Langston Hughes' work by UMass Med School's new Assistant Vice Chancellor for City and Community Relations, Che Anderson. Honoring Langston Hughes, February 1 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Langston Hughes, an early adopter of what we now [...]
Join the conversation with health experts Dr. Jaime Vallejos (Health Sciences) and Dr. Laura Kane (Philosophy) on "Our Public Health Crisis." This event will run on Zoom this Tuesday, February 2, from 1-2pm. https://worcester.zoom.us/j/91572328630
Join the Student Activities Office as we invite Asia and Jareed to host one of their podcast episodes, Done With Adulting, for WPI Students! Asia and Jareed will be joined by two WPI NSBE Students, Kristophe Zephyrin and Noelle Morgan, to talk about the student perspective when it comes to performative allyship and how we [...]
Facing History and Ourselves uses lessons of history to challenge teachers and their students to stand up to bigotry and hate. About this Event Please join us on Thursday, February 18th from 9:30-10:45 am via Zoom for the second in our series of presentations for those in Worcester’s education ecosystem on engaging in conversations with young [...]
As we jump start our Spring 2021 semester programming, we want to offer you the opportunity to engage with the Petey Greene Program community members and social justice practitioners striving for a more just world. Please join us for the first of three webinars in our Spring 2021 Justice Education Series. On Thursday, February 18 at [...]
The Kennedy Institute is excited to announce that Jeff Goodell, 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, author, and contributing editor at Rolling Stone, will serve as moderator for the upcoming Stone Social Impact Forum program featuring Catherine Coleman Flowers, the acclaimed environmental activist, MacArthur “genius grant” recipient, and founding director of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice.
Join us for this free, three part, interactive, Teagle Foundation-supported faculty development series exploring topics related to the science of learning in the time of COVID. You can attend one or all of these sessions. Previous topics have included: strategies to address lack of motivation and engagement, effective methods for teaching and learning remotely, strategies for teaching [...]
The first program in the series will be published on Monday, Feb. 22, across our Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube accounts. Lizzy Gallagher, an environmental scientist and science communicator, will talk about her how her guide work and science have interacted. She has led adventure excursions in numerous National Parks including the Everglades, a one-of-a-kind natural [...]