Summer Seminars at UMass Downtown

Description

UMass Downtown and the UMass Amherst Graduate School invite you to the Summer Seminar Series, a new public speaker series connecting campus research with the community. Each Wednesday evening, UMass graduate student presenters will share their research, ideas, and work in an engaging and approachable format designed to spark conversation, curiosity, and connection. Each session offers a chance to hear directly from emerging scholars doing meaningful work across disciplines, with opportunities for discussion and community engagement.

Wednesdays | June 17–August 5 6:00–7:30 PM
Free and open to the public

July 1 | Rozy Bathrick & Sebastian Moreno From Flyway to Feeder: The Science Behind Bird Migration, Habitat Stewardship, and Public Engagement Have you ever wondered where your birds go when they leave your backyard? Billions of birds migrate every spring and fall, flying thousands of miles through human-altered landscapes to chase resources and raise young.

Join Rozy and Sebastian, two UMass ornithologists, as they discuss scalable conservation from your backyard to the remote reaches of migration corridors.rs of some of the most pressing questions of the day, such as: When would the end times begin, and what would they be like?