STEM Ed Announcement: 2009-2010 Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series

[Morton Sternheim <mort@k12s.phast.umass.edu>]

The University of Massachusetts Amherst is pleased to announce its 2009
- 2010 Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series.  All lectures will begin at
4 p.m. and will be held in the Massachusetts Room at the Mullins Center,
with the exception of the first lecture on November 9, which will be
held in the Bernie Dallas Room in the Goodell Building.  A reception
immediately follows each lecture.

Additional information on the lectures, including abstracts and
biographies, are available at
http://www.umass.edu/umhome/future/faculty.html.

This year's lecturers, who will each be presented with a Chancellor's
Medal at the conclusion of their talk, are:

M.V. Lee Badgett, Department of Economics
?From I Can?t To I Do: When Gay People Get Married?
Monday, November 9, 2009

Bret E. Jackson, Department of Chemistry
?How Catalysts Make It Happen?
Monday, December 7, 2009

Roderic A. Grupen, Department of Computer Science
?Programming Robots to Live Among Us: A Developmental Approach?
Monday, March 1, 2010

Catherine Portuges, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
?After the Wall Came Down: Post-Communist Cinemas in East-Central Europe?
Monday, April 26, 2010