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Flags Lowered for Attleboro Sailor
Friday, April 13, 2018
Gov. Charlie Baker has ordered the United States and Commonwealth flags lowered to half-staff at all state buildings from sunrise until sunset on Tuesday, April 17, the day of interment, in honor of AOSR Ryan William Wainright, USN, of Attleboro, who died March 29 in Bremerton, Washington.
Flags Lowered for Attleboro Sailor
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Flags Lowered for Yarmouth Police Officer
Friday, April 13, 2018
Gov. Charlie Baker has ordered the United States and Commonwealth flags lowered to half-staff at all state buildings until sunset on Wednesday, April 18, the day of interment, in honor of Officer Sean Gannon of the Yarmouth Police Department, who died in the line of duty April 12.
U.S flag
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Landscape Management Improving Habitat for Eastern Bluebirds, Bats
Friday, April 13, 2018
Landscape Management and partners are installing six bluebird nesting boxes and six bat houses as part of continuing efforts to improve wildlife habitat on campus. A popular and beneficial species, the eastern bluebird experienced a drastic decline in numbers during the late 1800s through the...
Bluebird on nesting box
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Doctoral Oral Exams for April 23-27
Friday, April 13, 2018
The graduate dean invites all graduate faculty to attend the final oral examinations for the doctoral candidates scheduled as follows: Mohammad Reihaneh, Ph.D., Isenberg School of Management, Monday, April 23, 2 p.m., 219 Isenberg School of Management. Dissertation: “Integrated Routing...
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Medical Cannabis Expert to Deliver 30th Annual Virginia A. Beal Lecture
Friday, April 13, 2018

Laura Lagano, registered dietitian/nutritionist and co-founder of the Holistic Cannabis Academy, will deliver the 30th Annual Virginia A. Beal Lecture, “Medical Cannabis: Are You Ready for the New Frontier of Healthcare?,” on Wednesday, April 25 at 6 p.m. in the Student Union Ballroom. Lagano’s keynote will highlight advances in medical cannabis care, an area that can be poorly understood by consumers and health care professionals alike.

Laura Lagano
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UMass Amherst College of Nursing to Celebrate Major Investment in Springfield Center
Thursday, April 12, 2018

Officials from UMass Amherst’s College of Nursing will join UMass Amherst Chancellor Kumble R. Subbaswamy, Spacelabs Healthcare President Sujit Kumar and Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno to open a newly expanded College of Nursing laboratory that will enhance nursing education at the UMass Center at Springfield. The Springfield center is an important pipeline for UMass Amherst to train nurses for the region’s healthcare sector.

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UMass Amherst Geoscientist on NASA Mission to Improve Astronaut Experience
Thursday, April 12, 2018

Geoscientist Will Daniels, a postdoctoral researcher at UMass Amherst’s Climate System Research Center, is set to embark on the trip of a lifetime this month as part of an experiment for NASA, spending 45 days away from Earth as he knows it, without ever leaving the ground.

Will Daniels at NASA HERA
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Tibetan Monks Return to Campus to Construct Sand Mandala
Thursday, April 12, 2018
For four days, April 17-20, the public will be able to watch as seven Tibetan monks working in Old Chapel create a unique and colorful sand mandala, considered a tool for re-consecrating the earth and its inhabitants. Painstakingly formed from millions of grains of sand placed on a flat platform...
Mandala from above
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Mosselson to Serve on INEE Education Policy Working Group
Thursday, April 12, 2018
Jacqueline Mosselson, associate professor of educational policy, research and administration, has been invited as a representative of the College of Education to serve as a member of the Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies’ (INEE) 2018-2020 Education Policy Working Group (EPWG...
Jacqueline Mosselson
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Wier Competing in War of the Words Benefit in West Hartford
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
English professor Dara Wier will be competing April 14 in Webster’s War of the Words, a word-based game show to benefit the Noah Webster House and West Hartford Historical Society. Wier and teammates Rob Kyff of the Hartford Courant and Kristina Newman-Scott, director of culture for the...
Dara Wier
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