During the next year, the Office of Information Technologies is introducing a new set of e-mail, calendar and collaboration tools through Microsoft Exchange and Apps at UMass Amherst, Google’s suite of collaboration tools for educational institutions, according to John Dubach, chief information officer.
In e-mails sent May 1 to the campus community, Dubach said, “By moving to Microsoft Exchange and Google Apps, we hope to meet the campus’s growing needs for collaboration and communication tools, while also providing our faculty, staff and students with access to innovative technologies and
A new, more powerful web camera on the roof of the W.E.B. Du Bois Library is giving viewers a close-up look at the newest brood of peregrine falcon chicks in their nest box.
Sophomore Jonathan Floyd was the winner of a new iPad for participating in a campus survey on the mission of University Health Services.
In the end-of-semester frenzy in the Pioneer Valley, the Massachusetts Review is offering Five College students a potential distraction. The magazine has launched a project its calling “MR Nomads.” With the help and assistance of each of the Five College libraries, over 100 free copies of MR’s best recent issues will be left for the taking. As a sticker on each magazine cover announces, “This Book is Owned by its Reader,” so students should feel free to take the issues home and keep them as long as they like.
During the next academic year, Rizo Lenshyn will conduct research on the stars and star culture in the cinema of socialist East Germany.