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
At the 91st Commencement for the Stockbridge School of Agriculture on May 11, speakers told graduates they will become stewards of the world through their chosen professions as well as the latest addition to a long standing family of graduates who support each other. The students in six majors received associate of science degrees and bachelor’s degree of science in Bowker Auditorium.
Under partly sunny skies, 5,500 students received bachelor’s degrees at Undergraduate Commencement on May 10. A crowd of 20,000 heard commencement speaker and American Express CEO Kenneth I. Chenault advise, that in a world permanently disrupted, graduates may not “find” a job but that “21st century technology makes inventing a job much cheaper and easier.”
The Graduate School conferred more than 1,200 doctoral and master’s degrees at May 10 Commencement ceremonies that drew nearly 1,000 graduates, along with family members and friends to the William D. Mullins Memorial Center.
The Massachusetts Gaming Commission (MGC) has selected a School of Public Health and Health Sciences (SPHHS) research team to perform a comprehensive, multi-year $3.64 million research project, believed to be the first of its kind, on the economic and social impacts of introducing casino gambling in Massachusetts. It will focus particularly on problem gambling, but also examine a wide array of social and economic effects of expanded gambling in Massachusetts.
Analyses of the longest sediment core ever collected on land in the Arctic, recently completed by an international team led by Julie Brigham-Grette of the Geosciences Department, provide “absolutely new knowledge” of Arctic climate from 2.2 to 3.6 million years ago and show that with estimated atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) similar to today’s levels, the Arctic was very warm, with no ice sheets.
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.