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Monday, November 23, 2009

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  • 03/12/2009
    Watch a series of video interviews with UMass Amherst faculty as they discuss the current economic crisis and whether they believe the federal economic stimulus plan will work. This presentation is part Amherst Wire, a student-run project of the journalism department dedicated to covering nat...
  • 03/09/2009
    A new, $5 million University Transit Center and Regional Traveler Information Center has been dedicated at UMass Amherst. The 16,000-square-foot facility features a spacious vehicle garage, driver-training facility and state-of-the-art operations center for the Regional Traveler Information...
  • 02/20/2009
    The new historical documentary, "Model T's to War: American Ambulances on the Western Front 1914-1918," produced by filmmakers from UMass Amherst, will have its premiere television broadcast on WGBY, Channel 57 in Springfield on Thursday, March 5 at 8 p.m. The hour-long documentary film was...
  • 02/05/2009
    For WFCR radio, the station's commitment to Greater Springfield is making a great leap forward this spring with the introduction of its new broadcast center in the city's downtown. The station is preparing to engage Springfield in a new way and take advantage of the latest technologies to ser...
  • 01/12/2009
    WGBY-TV's "Making It Here" features the the new, award-winning Central Heating Plant at the University of Massachsetts Amherst. Ten years in the planning, the facility replaces a coal-fired plant built more than 80 years ago.
  • 11/20/2008
    Cyclops, a new supercomputer at UMass Amherst, provides super-fast processing power for faculty and student research projects. The machine is an array of 608 linked processors with only a single screen, or eye, like the one-eyed monster in ancient myths. (Video by Maia Kushick)
  • 11/17/2008
    George Huber, a chemical engineering researcher at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, is a national leader in the development of "green gasoline," and in fall 2008 fall he was one of three experts invited to speak in Washington at a National Science Foundation briefing on how to make th...
  • 11/07/2008
    Robert C. Holub, UMass Amherst chancellor, was among the featured speakers in a ceremony in downtown Springfield that formalized a new Greater Springfield-University of Massachusetts Amherst Partnership designed to promote collaborations that will lead to the revitalization of Springfield's...
  • 11/04/2008
    View a series of video interviews with UMass Amherst faculty as they assess the presidential race and how the candidacies of Barak O'Bama and Sarah Palin are viewed by voters. This presentation is part Amherst Wire, a student-run project of the journalism department dedicated to covering nati...
  • 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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