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09/15/2008
TechCast at UMass: Two microbiologists are examining the role that the common bacteria chlamydia plays in a host of serious diseases such as asthma. This episode includes interviews with Wilmore Webley and Elizabeth Stuart, microbiology, and their work redefining the role that bacteria can pl...
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07/08/2008
TechCast at UMass: The development of a portable hug vest is a new invention that promises to help people suffering from a wide range of problems become calmer, more focused and more grounded. This episode includes interviews with Sundar Krishnamurty, professor of mechanical and industrial en...
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07/03/2008
Parents who want to raise their young children to speak more than one language have a new guide in the book, Raising a Bilingual Child, by Barbara Zurer Pearson, a research associate and adjunct professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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06/12/2008
Belize is an unforgettable mix of tropical waterfalls, ancient Mayan ruins and deep limestone caves, making it one of the world's most popular destinations for ecotourists. Peter Kumble of the University of Massachusetts Amherst is working with the government of Belize to limit the environmen...
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06/02/2008
TechCast at UMass: OWL, an online, Web-based learning system, is helping students across the country understand chemistry and a variety of other subjects. Listen to interviews with Peter Lillya, an emeritus professor of organic chemistry, and David M. Hart, director of the Center for Educatio...
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05/24/2008
UMass President Jack M. Wilson congratulated the graduates and their supporters at McGuirk Alumni Stadium on Saturday, May 24. He is introduced by UMass Amherst Interim Chancellor Thomas W. Cole Jr.
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05/24/2008
Student speaker Katie Huston of Royal Oak, Mich., addressed a crowd of about 20,000 at undergraduate commencement at McGuirk Alumni Stadium on Saturday, May 24. She is introduced by Interim Chancellor Thomas W. Cole Jr.
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05/24/2008
Thomas W. Cole Jr., interim chancellor, addresses the audience at undergraduate commencement ceremonies held at the University of Massachusetts Amherst on Saturday, May 24.
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04/24/2008
TechCast at UMass: More than 80 percent of the world's population depends on rice as a staple food, but production is dropping in the rice paddies of Bangladesh, parts of India and South and East Asia due to toxic levels of arsenic in the topsoil. Om Parkash of the University of Massachusetts...
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03/04/2008
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst are developing interactive computerized tutors that sense a student's emotional and motivational state of mind at the same time it presents information designed to appeal to a person's intellectual curiosity. Special sensors are used to h...
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