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IBM collaborates on open source software training

With financial and in-kind support from IBM, the campus recently hosted two open source software training sessions for faculty, staff and students.

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Campus crime story denounced by UMass officials

An ABC News report on campus crime scheduled to air tonight is inaccurate and badly flawed in its methodology, University officials say. In fact, violent crime, as reported to the federal government, declined by more than 50 percent at UMass Amherst in 2004, but ABC did not use that data.

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Maryland Sen. Paul Sarbanes to receive honorary degree

U.S. Sen. Paul Sarbanes (D-Maryland), principal author of the landmark Sarbanes-Oxley Act, will be awarded an honorary degree during a visit to the Isenberg School of Management on Monday, Nov. 21.

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Two faculty appointed to named professorships

Two faculty members were appointed to named professorships by President Jack M. Wilson following the Nov. 16 meeting of the Board of Trustees at the Mullins Center.

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Classics to honor outstanding students

Undergraduates Katherine Hofmann and Curt Bellemer will be honored as this year''s recipients of the F. Bulger Award in Classics on Nov. 18 at the University Club.

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NY Times columnist to introduce Enron film

The acclaimed documentary, "ENRON: The Smartest Guys in the Room," will be shown Monday, Nov. 21 at 6:30 p.m. in the Flavin Family Auditorium, 137 Isenberg School of Management. Joseph Nocera, a New York Times business columnist and former editor of Fortune magazine, will introduce the documentary and participate in a discussion following the screening.

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Nagurney leads translation of influential transportation planning paper

Professor Anna Nagurney of the Isenberg School of Management is the leader of a team that has translated a 1968 paper on the Braess paradox that states that within some types of transportation networks, the addition of a new road may not improve travel time, and instead may make everyone worse off.

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Learning Commons to open 24/5 after Thanksgiving

Starting Sunday, Nov. 27, the Learning Commons on the main floor of the Du Bois Library will be open 24 hours a day, five days a week.

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Renewable energy lab to study wind-powered desalination

The U. S. Bureau of Reclamation has awarded $100,000 to the Renewable Energy Research Laboratory to investigate operating a desalination plant that is partially powered by wind energy.

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Fair trade coffee introduced on campus

The campus has joined the Fair Trade coffee movement by adopting Pura Vida, a fair trade coffee provider, as one of its coffee suppliers in the dining commons and other retail outlets like the Blue Wall Eatery in the Campus Center.

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