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Distinguished Faculty Lecturers announced

Oct. 8, 2008

Faculty members from Economics, Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Psychology have been selected to present this year’s Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series. More...



79 new faculty join teaching ranks

Oct. 8, 2008

Seventy-nine new, tenure-track faculty are joining the professorial ranks during the 2008-09 academic year, according to data from the Provost’s Office. More...


Kevin Fu

NSF awards $449k to Fu to improve cardiac device security

Oct. 7, 2008

Computer scientist Kevin E. Fu, who earlier this year showed that an implantable heart defibrillator is vulnerable to hacking, has received a three-year, $449,000 National Science Foundation grant to improve future security in implanted cardiac devices without compromising safety and effectiveness. More...



Study pushes appearance of Northern Hemisphere ice sheets back 22 million years

Oct. 3, 2008

Climatologist Robert DeConto of the Geosciences Department and colleagues at four institutions reported in the Oct. 2 issue of the journal Nature that their latest climate model of the Northern Hemisphere suggests conditions would have allowed ice sheets to form there for the last 25 million years, or about 22 million years earlier than generally assumed. More...


Architect's rendering of band building

With $500k pledged, Marching Band steps up fundraising for new building

Oct. 2, 2008

More than $500,000 has been pledged towards the construction of a new permanent home for the Minuteman Marching Band, according to director George N. Parks. More...


Charlena Seymour

Seymour stepping down as provost

Oct. 1, 2008

Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Charlena Seymour today announced that she will resign from her post at the end of the academic year. More...

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People

Obituary: Elizabeth Tedford, clerk in Controller's Office

Elizabeth (Kelly) Tedford, 61, of Hadley, a clerk IV in the Controller’s Office, died Oct. 6 at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton. More...


Kevrekidis study published in Physical Review Letters

Panos Kevrekidis, associate professor of Mathematics and Statistics, and colleagues report in the journal Physical Review Letters that they have confirmed the mathematical prediction of oscillations and interactions of dark solitons behaving like particles at the coldest temperatures in the universe, a few billionths of a degree Kelvin. More...


Mental Health Services adds Shanky to staff

Christopher Shanky, a licensed independent clinical social worker, has joined the Mental Health staff of University Health Services. More...


Campbell's work exhibited at Leverett Library

“Trees!,” an exhibit of photos, paintings and woven paper by Elisa Campbell is on view at the Leverett Library through Nov. 4. More...


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Looking Back

Hurricane of '38 tested mettle of Massachusetts State College

If there is a yardstick to measure hurricanes against, old-timers say it is the fabled Hurricane of ’38, the ferocious storm that ripped through New England and the Massachusetts State College campus 70 years ago this month. More...


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Weekly Bulletin

Economics writer David Warsh speaks Oct. 17
Author and former Boston Globe economics journalist David Warsh will present a talk titled “Economics in the Current Crisis” on Friday, Oct. 17 from 1:30-3 p.m. in 210 Isenberg School of Management. More...


UPride reception at University Club is Oct. 22
UPride, a network for LGBTQ faculty and staff, is hosting a reception on Wednesday, Oct. 22 from 4:40–6:30 p.m. at the University Club. More...


Graduate student conference at Renaissance Center
A graduate student conference is being held Saturday, Oct. 18 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies. More...


34th annual Multiband Pops concert is Oct. 17
The 34th annual Multiband Pops at the Fine Arts Center Concert Hall will take place on Friday, Oct. 17 at 8 p.m. More...


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