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UMass Amherst Professors Helping to Evaluate Plan to Keep New York City Water Pure
Thursday, November 13, 1997

AMHERST, Mass. - Two University of Massachusetts professors are helping to evaluate a long-term plan to keep the largest water system in the world pure. Rutherford Platt, a geographer in the geosciences department, and Paul Barten, a hydrologist in the forestry and wildlife management department, are serving on a panel responsible for determining the best way to keep New York City’s water clean, as it travels from upstate New York to metropolitan kitchen sinks. The committee, called the Committee to Review the New York City Watershed Management Strategy, was named by the National Research Council (NRC).

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Multi-religious Campus Organization Created at UMass Amherst in Response to Student Interest in Spirituality
Thursday, November 13, 1997

AMHERST, Mass. - The University of Massachusetts has begun a new and innovative Inter-Religious Project for students who are "spiritually searching."

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UMass Amherst Management Expert Extols Superleadership, a Model Based on Teams
Monday, November 10, 1997

AMHERST, Mass. - Charles C. Manz, author, researcher, and Nirenberg Professor of Business Leadership at the University of Massachusetts, says management methods that focus on leaders at the expense of followers are obsolete. In today’s fast-moving world economy, business leadership has to come from all parts of a successful organization, Manz says, because, "Ultimately, the best and probably the only real leadership comes from within each person."

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UMass Amherst Professor Wins $1.4 Million NSF Grant to Research Linking of Computer Systems
Wednesday, November 5, 1997

AMHERST, Mass. - George Avrunin, professor of mathematics and statistics at the University of Massachusetts, has received a $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation for research on the effective linking of computer systems. The grant will fund a four-year project Avrunin is working on in conjunction with UMass computer science professors Lori Clarke and Leon Osterweil. The group’s research could eventually be used in the development of computer systems used in areas such as air traffic control, airline reservation systems, and the monitoring of hospital patients.

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UMass Amherst Sociology Department Inaugurates New Criminal Justice Concentration
Wednesday, November 5, 1997

AMHERST, Mass. - The University of Massachusetts sociology department is inaugurating a new criminal justice concentration with a meeting and reception Thursday Nov. 6 at 6 p.m. in the Faculty Club. In attendance will be numerous city and state officials who make up the program’s advisory board. Elizabeth Scheibel, district attorney for Hampshire and Franklin counties, and advisory board chairperson, will welcome board members and outline the objectives of the program.

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UMass Amherst Professor Ray Kinoshita Aspires to Create an Architectural Renaissance
Monday, November 3, 1997

AMHERST, Mass. - When people ask architect Ray Kinoshita why she’s chosen to become the new art professor at the University of Massachusetts, she says it’s because she wants to redesign the way we make buildings from the ground up.

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UMass Amherst Professor Says Food Supply in Iraq Improving, but Malnutrition Still Serious
Wednesday, October 22, 1997

AMHERST, Mass. - Food supplies in Iraq are increasing under the United Nation’s 1996 agreement allowing the sale of oil to purchase basic food, but widespread malnutrition continues to be a serious problem, according to Peter Pellett, a University of Massachusetts nutrition professor.

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Book by UMass Amherst Professor Shows How Politics Guides Selection of Federal Judges
Saturday, October 18, 1997

AMHERST, Mass. - A new book by University of Massachusetts political science professor Sheldon Goldman offers an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at how nine U.S. presidents shaped the federal judiciary through their selection of lower court judges. Goldman’s book, Picking Federal Judges: Lower Court Selection From Roosevelt Through Reagan (Yale University Press), reveals for the first time in great detail factors that affected the selection process. Special attention is given to the struggle to diversify the bench by gender and by race in the period between 1932 and 1988 covered by the book.

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Vive La Pop: UMass Amherst Professor Explores French Love of Pop Culture
Thursday, October 16, 1997

AMHERST, Mass. - How can those lovers of wine, painting, and haute couture we know as the French be the same people whose government honors Jerry Lewis and Sylvester Stallone?

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Book by UMass Amherst Professor Challenges Myths About Sources of Corporate Creativity
Wednesday, October 15, 1997

AMHERST, Mass. - A University of Massachusetts professor argues in a new book that most creative acts in business are unplanned and unexpected, come from ordinary people, and aren''t triggered by reward-based programs or familiar suggestion-box methods.

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