Stolen or lost property can often be hard to trace because owners don’t record serial numbers or other identifying information, but a new initiative by the UMass Police Department’s Community Outreach Unit is making it easier for student and campus employees to register their valuables.
Through Project Protect, community members can register anything from bicycles and cell phones to electronics, computers and musical instruments in an online database that police can use to trace recovered items.
Hundreds of items are lost or stolen on campus annually, said UMPD officer Brian Kellogg.
The broadcasts can be heard, with one exception, on Sunday afternoons starting at 1 p.m. on WFCR, and will feature conversations on each selection between conductor Kevin Rhodes and New England Public Radio music director John Montanari.
A new $85 million physical sciences building for the campus is among the projects funded through a $607 million bond package for the UMass system announced this week by Gov. Deval Patrick.
Shelly Peyton, assistant professor of Chemical Engineering, says scientists know that breast cancer will spread to many different types of tissues in the body, and that this migration is the key reason the cancer is deadly. What they don’t know is why some forms of the cancer move to the brain, while others seek out bone or lung tissues.
President Robert Caret is planning a four-day, 500-mile bus tour next week to visit alumni start-ups, business incubators and UMass research centers to highlight 150 years of the University’s academic excellence and economic contributions since the signing of the Morrill Land Grant Act.
The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) announced Sept. 26 the approval of a $308,000 capital grant to support a research project titled “Life Sciences Research & Innovation: Growth Strategy for UMass Amherst in the Massachusetts Bioeconomy.”