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Alexis “Lexie” Kamerman’s colleagues and friends shared laughs and tears Monday as they celebrated a life cut short by a suicide bomber in Kabul, Afghanistan, where Kamerman had traveled to help educate women.

Associate Professor Prudence Layne authored a newspaper guest column for the MLK Jr. holiday in which she reflects on the shared legacies of the slain American civil rights leader and his counterpart in South Africa, the late Nelson Mandela.

The former assistant director of Residence Life was one of 21 people killed in Afghanistan on Jan. 17, 2014, when a suicide bomber and gunmen attacked a Kabul restaurant. The service is set for 6:30 p.m.

Students, faculty and staff honored Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy on Jan. 17 by volunteering at the Habitat for Humanity ReStore in Burlington, N.C., and the Blakey Hall retirement home.

The American Red Cross collected donations from 77 people who visited McKinnon Hall on Wednesday for a Winter Term blood drive.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ hosted a photo exhibit Tuesday in Moseley Center as students, faculty and staff gathered for a special College Coffee, part of a series of events this month to commemorate the life of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Professor Pranab Das writes in a newspaper opinion column published across the region about the reasons climate change has subsided from public debate in recent years.

Wear white to Alumni Gym on Saturday night when the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Phoenix hosts the nationally ranked UMass Minutemen in a sold-out game.

Hundreds of students led by dozens of faculty and staff members are studying away from campus this month in nations such as Brazil, India and Ghana, among many others.