News
The Commonwealth Honors College has announced the winners of its annual awards, and BDIC students are well represented on their list.
Aram Bedrosian and Julian Gensler were both awarded "Class of 1941 Humanitarian Awards."
Recipients of this award are selected from among junior and senior Honors...
We are very proud of six of our BDIC Students who have been selected as 2013 UMass Amherst Alumni Association Scholarship and Award Recipients:
Karina Lopez '14 has been awarded the Michael W. Morris Scholarship
Emma Mulvaney '15 has been awarded the Alumni Merit-Based SAA Scholarship
Sarah Walsh...
Click here to read about our 3rd Annual BDIC Alumni Networking Event
In March of 2013, the BDIC Program was fortunate enough to send a cohort to Denver, CO to partake in the Fifth Annual Individualized Major Program National Conference hosted by Metropolitan State University-Denver. Director Michael Sugerman and Professor Susan Ware, along with five of the BDIC...
UCAN is a student-run community service network that was founded by two BDIC students, Kurt Schultz, concentration: Cognitive Neuroscience and Sam Mardell, concentration: Science, Technology, and Society. It connects UMass students to volunteer opportunities in the Amherst public schools. There...
After two years of serving with AmeriCorps VISTA in both Springfield, MA at Greater Springfield Habitat for Humanity, and one in Anchorage, AK working with a rural village energy education program (and a brief stint traveling across the country and giving dog sled tours at Mt. Bachelor in Oregon...
Erica Rothschild (BDIC 2012, concentration "Social Justice Education and Conflict Resolution") was one of 13 graduating seniors to receive this year's University's 21st Century Leader Award (the highest undergraduate honor awarded by UMass Amherst).
Erica writes about the goal of her studies...
The BDIC Student Advisory Board held its 2nd Annual BDIC Alumni Networking Night at the Marriott Center on the 11th floor of the Campus Center. The idea for the night is to get current BDIC students together with alumni in a social setting about how their BDIC degrees have transported into...
Megan Kolb (BDIC 2010, concentration "Performing Arts Management") returned to campus recently for BDIC's alumni networking night. Megan is Associate Producer and cofounder of the All For One Theater Festival in New York City with offices near Times Square.
From the All For One website ...
"All...
Adam O'Neill (BDIC 2010, Concentration "Environmental Economics & Entrepreneurship") is engaged in the active entrepreneurial scene in the Boston area. Adam writes that "I love the entrepreneurship world. While at UMass and since, I've been involved in various capacities in 5 different...
Pete Merzbacher (BDIC 2011, Concentration “Globalization & Entrepreneurship”) has recently taken a job at the newly renovated Lord Jeffrey Inn in Amherst as a chef and sustainability manager. While at UMass Pete founded the education-oriented New Growth Gardens in Springfield, a project that...
Having moved from UMass to a job as event organizer and eventually on air reporter with ESPN, Jenny Dell (BDIC 2008, Concentration “Sport Event Marketing & Operations”) has now been hired by NESN as a prominent part of their Red Sox Broadcasting Team. At UMass, Jenny was a freshman in 2004...
BDIC congratulates Rose Weiss (BDIC 2010, Concentration “Food Studies”) for winning the 2012 Bocuse D’Or USA Comiss competition, which carries the prize of a 3 month apprenticeship in France at the Michelin 3 start restaurant of her choice. Rose is now a student at the International Culinary...
News
The Commonwealth Honors College has announced the winners of its annual awards, and...
We are very proud of six of our BDIC Students who have been selected as 2013 UMass...
Click here to read about our 3rd Annual BDIC Alumni Networking Event
Of Interest...
BDIC students might be interested in this - especially those interested in sustainability, the...
Storytelling is a theme that has been explored by a number of BDIC students over the years. ...
