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The Boston Globe celebrates UMass sesquicentennial.

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One Breath/One LineOpening Reception: One Breath/One Line
Reception for Theresa Antonellis's MFA thesis exhibition, May 2.

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Commencement BallCommencement Ball
The year's theme: Bright Lights, Big City, May 3.

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Opening Reception: One Breath/One Line

Reception for Theresa Antonellis's MFA thesis exhibition, May 2.

Commencement Ball

The year's theme: Bright Lights, Big City, May 3.

Sorry, Wrong Numbers

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Sorry, Wrong Numbers

Chancellor Inaugurated

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Chancellor Inaugurated

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The 36-hour event launched at noon on Founders Day, April 29, as the campus kicked off its 150th birthday celebration.
Thousands of students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends attended festivities marking Founders Day on the UMass Amherst campus on the150th anniversary of the signing of the campus charter. Among the highlights was the ceremonial cutting of a 150-pound birthday cake created in the shape of the university’s iconic Old Chapel.