AMHERST, Mass. - A University of Massachusetts course aimed at teaching students how to study history as historians do will be featured in a PBS satellite broadcast Oct. 7. The PBS project, "Exemplary Models for Web-Based Learning," is aimed at showing how higher education can rely on the World Wide Web in a meaningful way.

AMHERST, Mass - This year''s fall foliage display won''t fail to impress leaf-peepers, despite the summer''s drought and the heavy rains and winds of Hurricane Floyd, says Bernard Rubinstein, a plant physiologist at the University of Massachusetts. Rubinstein researches topics related to the maturity, aging, and death of leaves and flowers. "New England''s foliage displays may well be as beautiful as always," Rubinstein says.

AMHERST, Mass - Three University of Massachusetts climatologists will return this month to satellite-linked weather stations in the Andes, atop two of Bolivia''s highest mountains, Illimani and the extinct volcano Sajama. The group will take snow samples that may offer clues about the effects of El Nino and La Nina on precipitation. The team is led by Raymond Bradley, head of the geosciences department, and includes graduate student Carsten Braun and adjunct assistant professor Douglas Hardy. The project, funded by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, is a collaboration with Ohio State University.

AMHERST, Mass - The University of Massachusetts will award Chancellor''s Medals to 10 distinguished faculty and alumni at a convocation Thurs., Sept. 30 in Bowker Auditorium. The Chancellor''s Medal is the highest honor the campus bestows on individuals and is given for exemplary and extraordinary service to the University.