The UMass Hotel and Conference Center has achieved One-Stop Shop Certification through the Association of Collegiate Conference and Events Directors-International (ACCED-I).
One-Stop Shop Certification recognizes collegiate operations that deliver one contact, one contract and one bill to meeting planners. This streamlining of conferencing and events coordination is intended to more closely match the practices of convention facilities and finer hotels.
The Association of Collegiate Conference and Events Directors-International was founded in 1980 and currently has a membership of over
Geoscientist Michele Cooke and colleagues take an uncommon, “Earth is lazy” approach to modeling fault development in the crust that is providing new insights into how faults grow. In particular, they study irregularities along strike-slip faults, the active zones where plates slip past each other such as at the San Andreas Fault of southern California.
Phallacies, the Center for Health Promotion’s men’s health theater and dialogue program, is a winner in this year’s White Ribbon Campaign video contest, sponsored by the Northwestern District Attorney’s Office.
The campus community is being asked by Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy to review and comment on a planning document developed by the Joint Task Force on Strategic Oversight (JTFSO) that “sets an agenda for the campus, and will guide subsequent institutional-level and departmental implementation plans.”