The UMass Amherst Police Department received a national accreditation award on Nov. 17 during the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc. (CALEA) fall conference in Jacksonville, Fla., according to Chief John Horvath.
UMass Amherst is only the fifth police department and the first university or college police department in Massachusetts to attain national accreditation.
The CALEA accreditation process—considered by the public safety community to be the “gold standard” — is a proven modern management tool.
The W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies is being awarded this year’s American Historical Association's Equity Award recognizing success in training and placing nearly 100 percent of its minority historians in academia.
All 45 of the campus's residence halls are now protected with fire sprinkler systems, following a massive, voluntary retrofit to protect students in one of the nation’s largest on-campus housing systems. State Fire Marshal Stephen Coan hailed the achievement as an impressive commitment to public safety.
New research that relied in part on satellite images suggests that cheatgrass, an invasive species brought west by settlers in the 1800s, is one cause for the larger, hotter and more frequent range fires experienced recently in the Great Basin of the American West. The arid region covers about 230,000 square miles (600,000 km) over much of Nevada and parts of Utah, Colorado, Idaho, California and Oregon.
Inside many growing cells, an active transport system runs on nano-sized microtubule tracks that resemble a highway, complete with motors carrying cargo quickly from a central supply depot to growing tips or wherever materials are needed. In spite of the cell’s busy, high-traffic environment, researchers know the system somehow works efficiently, without accidents or traffic jams.