Swift seeks board's backing for education reform efforts
The leadership of public colleges and universities will be important in the building of a seamless "K through 16" system, Lt. Gov. Jane Swift told the Board of Higher Education at its Sept. 19 meeting in the Mullins Center.

Eight researchers share $5m in IT research grants
Eight campus researchers working on four separate projects are among the recipients of the National Science Foundation's first grants under the new $90 million Information Technology Research (ITR) initiative.

Campus sports legend Lou Bush dead at 88
Lou Bush, '34, the Turners Falls native whose exploits in three sports made him a campus legend and propelled Massachusetts State College to the national spotlight in 1931, died Sept. 16 at Franklin Medical Center in Greenfield.

New Computer Science facility showcased
Nearly a year after moving into its new building on Governors Drive, the Computer Science Department took time last week to celebrate the official opening of the $14.6 million, state-of-the-art research facility.

Hokkaido delegation visits to celebrate longstanding ties
The 125-year-old bonds linking the University and Hokkaido University in Japan were celebrated Sept. 13 during ceremonies at a memorial honoring the leader who forged those ties and led both institutions: William Smith Clark.

From strife-torn homeland to Amherst, Kosovar student
maps new road to future
Continuing Education is an appropriate name for the division in which Kosovar student Neshe Gafuri finds herself studying this semester.

Van Voorst steps down from controller's post for SUNY job
After two years of commuting more than an hour and a half from his Clifton Park, New York home, controller James Van Voorst has decided to drive even farther to work.

Yeskel co-authors book on growing economic divide
The exploits of dot-com millionaires, mega-bank mergers and soaring stocks seem to blur into an endless string of media reports these days, but Felice Yeskel views the current economic boom through the lens of history.

Bernard Spivack Memorial Garden dedicated
The Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies paid homage to one of the campus's foremost Shakespeare scholars last weekend with the dedication of an Elizabethan-style garden to the memory of English professor Bernard Spivack.