Call it recycling 2.0. This month, the campus is moving to single stream, in which paper, along with clean plastic, glass, aluminum and steel containers and bottles, can be placed in one bin for pick-up by the Office of Waste Management.
The change also means that faculty and staff can put all of their recyclables in a single deskside bin and have it collected by custodial staff on Tuesdays and Thursdays, according to John Pepi, the campus’ solid waste manager.
In addition, deskside trash pick-up will take place on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
“We’re hoping single stream leads to a
Professor Max Page of the Art, Art History and Architecture Department, is one of three scholars nationally named to receive the Rome Prize for Historic Preservation and Conservation, awarded annually by the American Academy in Rome to honor “the highest standard of excellence in the arts and humanities.”
Richardson, doctoral student Wanette Vargas, and others at the Neurobiology of Stress and Addiction Laboratory use an adolescent rat model to reflect the typical teen experience with alcohol, which includes individual variability and intermittent exposure.
Tuition and fees at the University are on average a much smaller percentage of median family income than they are at the state’s private universities and other New England public universities, and one in four Massachusetts residents enrolled as a first-time freshman in a four-year public or private school in the state attends UMass, according to a new report released Sept. 7 by President Robert L. Caret.
Campus chefs have again set a new Guinness World Record, this time by cooking a 6,656-pound seafood stew at a Labor Day barbecue that celebrates the return of students for the new academic year.