AMHERST, Mass. – People in western Massachusetts living with chronic conditions such as arthritis, diabetes, depression or heart disease who wish to learn practical techniques to lead happier, more comfortable and productive lives are invited to take part in a series of workshops beginning on July 25 in Greenfield. Participants must attend four day-long training sessions and agree to lead at least one workshop series within a year to receive certification.
The Western Massachusetts Public Health Training Center is offering the workshop series, “My Life, My Health: The Stanford Chronic
AMHERST, Mass. – The first juvenile bluefin tuna tagged as part of a new three-year international research program was recovered this month, caught by two U.S. recreational fishermen off Long Island and New Jersey. It had been tagged in the Bay of Biscay in Spain last August. This recapture marks the start of a new international collaborative tuna tagging project aimed at improved fishery management.
AMHERST, Mass. – It was a “green sweep,” so to speak, as University of Massachusetts Amherst Dining Services and the campus permaculture project won the grand prize for sustainability and the top award for Outreach and Education at the national conference of the National Association of College & University Food Services last week in Boston.
AMHERST, Mass. – Medical devices save countless lives, and increasingly functions such as data storage and wireless communication allow for individualized patient care and other advances. But after their recent study, an interdisciplinary team of medical researchers and computer scientists warn that federal regulators need to improve how they track security and privacy problems in medical devices. 
AMHERST, Mass. – As the parents of special needs children know, summer can be a lonely time for kids who don’t fit in at a typical day camp. But children from across western Massachusetts who need augmentative and alternative communication can now attend a five-week summer camp in Holyoke with 35 other kids like themselves, a rich experience provided by some dedicated University of Massachusetts Amherst speech language pathology graduate students and recent grads.
AMHERST, Mass. – Physicists Andrea Pocar and Krishna Kumar of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, part of an international research team, recently reported results of an experiment conducted at the Enriched Xenon Observatory (EXO), located in a salt mine one-half mile under Carlsbad, New Mexico, part of a decades-long search for evidence of the elusive neutrino-less double-beta decay of Xenon-136.
AMHERST, Mass. – University of Massachusetts Amherst alumnus and rower Wes Piermarini of West Brookfield will represent the United States in the men’s quadruple scull competition beginning July 28 at the Olympic Games in London.
AMHERST, Mass. – Charles Curtsinger, a doctoral candidate in computer science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, recently received a prestigious 2012 Google Fellowship in Software Performance, one of only 14 Google PhD Student Fellowships awarded in the United States and Canada this year. With the two-year award, Curtsinger will receive funding for tuition, fees and a yearly stipend, plus access to a Google research mentor.
AMHERST, Mass. – The University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Dining Services on June 30 became the first U.S. food service operation ever to receive a Shine Award from the Canadian College and University Food Service Association. The award was presented during the organization’s annual conference in Ottawa.