Science & Environment

Bee Week

Piti Theatre Co., based in Shelburne Falls, is coordinating a series of “Bee Weeks” to raise awareness of the threats to the honey bee, highlight the significance of bees to worldwide health and well-being, and teach children and adults how to help bees...

UMass Biological Archaeology & Forensics

Ventura R. Pérez, Ph.D., Editor-in-Chief of Landscapes of Violence and Associate Professor of Biological Archaeology in the Department of Anthropology at UMass Amherst, talks about his field school and his class that deals with bio-archaeology and forensic...

Prof. Ray Bradley on Global Warming

Climatologist Professor Ray Bradley, Director of the Climate Research Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst discusses his continuing concerns that not enough is being done to limit the use of fossil fuels and slow the threat of global...

Astronomy Professor Daniela Calzetti

Daniela Calzetti, an astronomy professor from UMass, talks about space in conjunction with this week’s space-themed NOVA programming. A specialist in how galaxies are formed, Calzetti is known worldwide for “Calzetti’s Law,” a tool she developed in the mid-1990s that,...

CISA: Community Farming

CISA Executive Director Phil Korman & producer Dave Fraser explore community farming,  where people from the community get involved with all aspects of farming and get a better understanding of what it takes to be a farmer and where their food comes from.  They...

Connecticut River Water Testing

Anne Capra of the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission and Andrea Donlon, River Steward for the Connecticut River Watershed Council, discuss their water quality monitoring project on the River  and their need for volunteers to assist with this project from now until...