With more than $5 million raised as part of the New England Public Radio Foundation's 50th anniversary capital campaign for WFCR, the station will break ground for its new downtown Springfield facility on Feb. 8.
Of the $5,282,500 raised to date, $3,990,000 has been designated for facilities, leaving $1.4 million to be raised to fully fund the Springfield building project.
CEO and general manager Martin Miller said, "We are thrilled with the success of our campaign so far, and that after much planning and hard work, construction is set to kick off.
A new interactive website, the Campus Sustainability Explorer, is allowing students, faculty, staff and the public to click on more than 100 icons to read about “green” buildings, research programs in sustainability, a student farmers’ market and related topics.
A new report, drafted by a national panel that included two Resource Economics faculty members, says the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), should consider several factors in determining whether benefits are adequate. These include time constraints on low-income families and their ability to cook healthy meals, differing food prices across the country and the availability of healthy foods from local food stores.
Just-forming stars, like growing babies, are always hungry and must “feed” on huge amounts of gas and dust from dense envelopes surrounding them at birth. Now a team of astronomers including Robert Gutermuth, a research assistant professor and expert in imaging data from the Spitzer Space Telescope, reports observing an unusual “baby” star that periodically emits infrared light bursts, suggesting it may be twins, that is, a binary star. The discovery is reported this month in Nature.
Women for UMass Amherst (WFUM), a network of alumnae and friends of the campus who have made gifts to support the university, is boosting its impact through a new dedicated, collective fund that is providing awards to worthy projects.
After more than a decade in development, DiscoverText, a cloud-based text analytic software developed by faculty member Stuart Shulman, has been purchased by Vision Critical, a Vancouver-based provider of consumer insight technologies and services.
Gov. Deval L. Patrick this week proposed a $39 million increase for the University of Massachusetts system as part of his $34.8 billion fiscal 2014 state budget bill.
Hampshire Dining Commons in Southwest is closed this semester for a $15 million renovation, reports Chris Howland, purchasing and marketing manager for Auxiliary Enterprises. The building is expected to reopen in August.
In a study published in the January issue of the journal Fathering, associate professor Jennifer Lundquist and professor Joya Misra, along with former School of Education faculty member KerryAnn O’Meara, now of the University of Maryland, examined assumptions that men take unfair advantage of parental leave at universities, using the leave as an opportunity to further their research while shirking the responsibility of childcare.
Paul J. Dauenhauer, assistant professor of Chemical Engineering, has received a five-year, $400,000 grant from the National Science Foundation’s CAREER program to conduct basic research on the chemical reactions that create biofuel from organic matter such as wood.