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School of Nursing Receives $892,559 to Recruit and Retain Minority and Disadvantaged Students

AMHERST, Mass. – The School of Nursing at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has received a $892,559 grant to boost an ambitious and wide-ranging three-year program to draw future nurses from minority and disadvantaged communities.
 
The grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Bureau of Health Professions will allow the school to fully implement a program called Achieving Diversity: A Comprehensive Approach to Nursing Workforce Diversity.
 
Program director Jean Swinney said the school has been increasingly active in Springfield and its public schools, promoting and

Springfield Ready to Host Key U.S. Senate Debate Between Sen. Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren on Oct. 10

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – The two candidates for the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts will debate at Springfield Symphony Hall at 34 Court St. on Wednesday, Oct. 10 from 7-8 p.m. Incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown and Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren face off in the only televised debate from western Massachusetts.
 
The Massachusetts Senate race is one of the highest profile contests in the country in this election cycle and its outcome could have a huge influence on whether Republicans or Democrats control the U.S. Senate beginning next January.

UMass Amherst Program to Explore 1980s Afro-American Spark of Afro-German Poetry and Culture

AMHERST, Mass. – Afro-American and Afro-German culture and activism will converge at the University of Massachusetts Amherst on Oct. 10-11 in two programs focusing on the life and work the late Audre Lorde, the influential African-American and lesbian poet who ignited the Afro-German movement in the 1980s, and late poet May Ayim, a founder of the Black German Movement.
 
On Wednesday, Oct.

ADHD Clinic for Children and Adults Opens at Psychological Services Center at UMass Amherst

AMHERST, Mass. – A clinic for children and adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) recently opened at the Psychological Services Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
 
While it is estimated that between 5 and 12 percent of school-aged children and adults have ADHD, it can be a difficult condition to diagnose with accuracy, according to Becky Ready, a licensed clinical neuropsychologist and director of the clinic.

UMass Amherst Students Awarded Gilman Scholarships

AMHERST, Mass. – Fifteen University of Massachusetts Amherst students are studying abroad this fall with Gilman Scholarships in Africa, Asia, Europe and South America.
 
These results place UMass Amherst fourth in the U.S. behind the University of California, Berkeley, San Francisco State and University of California, Santa Barbara.
 
A total of 2,685 undergraduates from around the country applied for this federal scholarship targeted towards Pell Grant recipients. Nearly 1,200 scholarships were awarded, a selection rate of about 42 percent.

New UMass Amherst Police Chief John K. Horvath to Be Sworn in Oct. 4

 
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DATE:           Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012
TIME:            9-10 a.m.
PLACE:         Massachusetts Room, Mullins Center
 
John K. Horvath, the new chief of the University of Massachusetts Amherst Police Department, will be formally sworn in during ceremonies attended by area police, local and UMass officials and other law enforcement personnel.
 
Horvath, who previously served as assistant chief of police in Hartford, assumed the leadership of the 62-officer UMass Police Department on Sept.

UMass Amherst Chemical Engineer Attacks Breast Cancer by Studying the Disease on Biomaterials that Act Like Human Tissues

AMHERST, Mass. – Shelly Peyton, a chemical engineer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, says scientists know that breast cancer will spread to many different types of tissues in the body, and that this migration is the key reason the cancer is deadly. What they don’t know is why some forms of the cancer move to the brain, while others seek out bone or lung tissues.
 
Peyton is now using a three-year, $590,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study how different types of breast cancer interact with different human tissues – tissues she and her research team can create in

UMass Amherst Physicist Wins Prestigious Early Career Award

AMHERST, Mass. – University of Massachusetts Amherst biophysicist Jenny Ross has won one of the top national honors in her field, the 2013 Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award, from the Biophysical Society of Rockville, Md. It is given to a woman who has achieved prominence for “substantial contributions to science,” while showing very high promise for ideas and leadership in the early stages of her biophysical research career.
 
Ross is one of five researchers to be honored during a symposium at the society’s 57th annual meeting in February in Philadelphia.

President Caret Mounts Statewide Bus Tour, Points to 'Singular Contribution' as UMass Approaches 150th Anniversary

SPRINGFIELD -- President Robert L. Caret today launched a four-day, 500-mile statewide bus tour aimed at highlighting the contribution that UMass makes to the state of Massachusetts and the contribution that public higher education has made to the nation.

“We live in a state rich in colleges and universities. Throughout the world, the name Massachusetts is synonymous with higher education excellence.

UMass Amherst Student 'Trash Sort' Highlights Recycling

 
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DATE:           Monday, Oct. 1 (rain date is Oct. 3)
TIME:            10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
WHAT:          Trash Sort
WHERE:       UMass Amherst campus lawn south of Student Union
 
Haz-mat-suited Eco-Rep student volunteers for the sustainability program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst will conduct a trash sort on the lawn south of the Student Union on Monday, Oct. 1, to measure the success of student recycling practices and highlight areas that can be improved. 
 
Students will pick up bags of trash from each of the campus’s residence hall areas, slit them

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