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10/01/2008
Want some insight from leading economic thinkers about the nation's financial crisis? Then head to Market Meltdown 101, a primer featuring video clips from UMass Amherst professors, compiled by journalism students at the university's flagship campus. The project is part of Amherst Wire, a stu...
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09/15/2008
UMass Amherst alumnus and former GE CEO Jack Welch and his wife, Suzy, popular columnists for BusinessWeek magazine, took questions and offered their observations on current topics in business in an open question-and-answer session with UMass Amherst students Sept. 15 at the Isenberg School o...
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09/12/2008
Chancellor Robert C. Holub used the platform of the Faculty Convocation on Sept. 12 to sketch his plans to move UMass Amherst into the top ranks of public universities nationally. Holub told an audience that the campus "must make progress, sometimes substantial progress" in eight key areas: r...
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09/11/2008
Alumnus Kenneth R. Feinberg, who directed the $7 billion fund created by Congress to assist the families of those killed or injured in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, spoke to an overflow crowd in the Bernie Dallas room of Goodell Hall on the seventh anniversary of the attacks.
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08/15/2008
K9 unit members Max, an 8-year-old Belgian Malinois and Dutch shepherd mix, and Kaila, a 9-year-old chocolate Labrador retriever, are officially off-duty after a combined seven years of service with the UMass Police Department. Newcomer Bosco is joining the force to follow in his predecessors...
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08/14/2008
More than a dozen girls from the Holyoke chapter of Girls Incorporated visited UMass Amherst for a day in August to tour information technology workplaces and learn about computer-related careers. The girls are participating in a national program called "Build IT," which is designed to tap in...
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08/14/2008
UMass Amherst is completing a $19 million renovation of Skinner Hall this summer, which will be the new home of the School of Nursing. The refurbished facility, initially constructed in the 1940s, will include classrooms, breakout rooms and a clinical lab that simulates a hospital environment...
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08/13/2008
University of Massaschusetts Press Director Bruce Wilcox discusses the UMass Press and its 45 years of publishing history. The press is the subject of a special exhibit in the W.E.B Du Bois Library at UMass Amherst through Aug. 31.
(Video by Rosie Walunas)
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08/01/2008
UMass Amherst faculty are in the midst of moving into the new Studio Arts Building, which will be open for business this fall. A video tour of this outstanding new facility is led by Jim Cahill, director of facilities and campus planning.
The $26 million facility bring together a variety o...
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08/01/2008
The new central heating plant at UMass Amherst should be in operation this fall, following the final stages of testing. The $127 million co-generation facility, fueled by natural gas and oil, will replace an obsolete, coal-burning facility built in the 1940s, and it will significantly reduce...
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