http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/ en-us 2009 University of Massachusetts Amherst Video from the UMass Amherst News Office. http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/ http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/audio/rss/itunes.jpg http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=505 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=505 Bowker Auditorium boasted a full house Sunday, Nov. 8 as candidates running for the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of Edward M. Kennedy answered questions at a public forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts and public radio stations WFCR and WNNZ. Candidates from both parties who will appear on the Dec. 8 primary ballot took part in the forum, including Democrats U.S. Rep. Michael E. Capuano, Boston Celtics co-owner Stephen Pagliuca and Alan Khazei, a co-founder of City Year, and Republicans state Sen. Scott Brown and Jack E. Robinson. Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=481 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=481 George Huber, the UMass Amherst chemical engineer whose quick, single-step process for turning sawdust, plant stalks and other cellulosic waste into green gasoline, has again received high-profile, national recognition for biofuels research in the National Science Foundation's online magazine, Science Nation. Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=462 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=462 With a five-year National Science Foundation grant to support scholarships, the College of Engineering at UMass Amherst has dramatically increased the odds of attracting bright, motivated transfer students from community colleges and other programs who will graduate as well-rounded engineers. Known as the Scholarship in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, or S-STEM, the NSF program provides $3,000 per semester, renewable until graduation, to qualified undergraduates to help them achieve a university education. Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=441 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=441 Researcher Derek Lovley of the University of Massachusetts Amherst is a recognized pioneer in understanding how microorganisms can restore polluted environments and serve as new energy sources. Geobacter, an organism discovered by Lovley, can be used to address a broad range of environmental concerns. Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=421 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=421 QD Tech has won the $35,000 grand prize in the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Innovation Challenge Final Business Plan Competition. The winning team plans to produce quantum-dot‐based materials designed to improve solar cells. The Innovation Challenge is a competition for the best innovation-driven business plan produced by students, recent alumni and faculty advisors at UMass Amherst. The program, which includes a preliminary elevator pitch contest, as well as mentoring and educational events throughout the year, culminated in the investor presentations by four finalists this week. Thu, 07 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=422 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=422 The UMass Amherst Theater Department presents "...and Jesus Moonwalks on the Mississippi" April 30-May 9 at the Curtain Theater at UMass Amherst. Travel through time known and unheard of in this extraordinary play by Marcus Gardley, a leading up-and-coming playwright and new faculty member in the UMass Theater Department. The production is directed by Theater Department Chair Gilbert McCauley. Sun, 03 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=401 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=401 The W.E.B. Du Bois Library at the University of Massachusetts Amherst will digitize an estimated 100,000 items from its Du Bois collection, thanks to a $200,000 grant from the Verizon Foundation. The project will provide online access for the first time to original diaries, letters, photographs and other material related to one of the most influential African Americans in United States history. Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=365 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=365 The Hatikvah Holocaust Education Center of Springfield and UMass Amherst are sponsoring the traveling exhibit "A Reason to Remember: Roth, Germany 1933-1942" at the Herter Gallery on campus. The exhibit, which continues through April 9, tells the personal stories of five families who lived in a small German village under Nazi rule. More information about the exhibit and gallery hours can be found at the center's Web site. Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=381 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=381 Sheila Bair, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., spoke to a crowd of more than 300 at the Isenberg School of Management at UMass Amherst. Bair is on leave from her post as an Isenberg School professor. She told the audience she sees some glimmers of hope that the nation's economy is beginning to improve. Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=361 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=361 The public is invited to witness the sunrise and sunset associated with the vernal equinox among the standing stones of the UMass Amherst Sunwheel on Friday, March 20 and Saturday, March 21, at 6:45 a.m. and 6 p.m. both days. This year's Sunwheel events not only mark the astronomical change of seasons when length of day and night are approximately equal, but they celebrate the International Year of Astronomy in 2009. Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=364 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=364 Watch a series of video interviews with UMass Amherst faculty as they discuss the current economic crisis and whether they believe the federal economic stimulus plan will work. This presentation is part Amherst Wire, a student-run project of the journalism department dedicated to covering national and global issues from a local perspective alongside breaking news on campus. Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=362 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=362 A new, $5 million University Transit Center and Regional Traveler Information Center has been dedicated at UMass Amherst. The 16,000-square-foot facility features a spacious vehicle garage, driver-training facility and state-of-the-art operations center for the Regional Traveler Information Center (RTIC). Congressman John Olver helped secure a $3.88 million Federal Transit Administration grant for the project, with the university funding $1.12 million. Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=363 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=363 The new historical documentary, "Model T's to War: American Ambulances on the Western Front 1914-1918," produced by filmmakers from UMass Amherst, will have its premiere television broadcast on WGBY, Channel 57 in Springfield on Thursday, March 5 at 8 p.m. The hour-long documentary film was made by Edward Klekowski, an emeritus professor at UMass Amherst, Elizabeth Wilda, of the UMass Amherst News Office, and Libby Klekowski. It tells the previously unknown stories of American volunteer ambulance drivers who served during World War I on the Western Front in France from 1914-18. Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=321 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=321 For WFCR radio, the station's commitment to Greater Springfield is making a great leap forward this spring with the introduction of its new broadcast center in the city's downtown. The station is preparing to engage Springfield in a new way and take advantage of the latest technologies to serve public radio listeners across Western New England. Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=341 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=341 WGBY-TV's "Making It Here" features the the new, award-winning Central Heating Plant at the University of Massachsetts Amherst. Ten years in the planning, the facility replaces a coal-fired plant built more than 80 years ago. Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=281 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=281 Cyclops, a new supercomputer at UMass Amherst, provides super-fast processing power for faculty and student research projects. The machine is an array of 608 linked processors with only a single screen, or eye, like the one-eyed monster in ancient myths. (Video by Maia Kushick) Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=261 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=261 George Huber, a chemical engineering researcher at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, is a national leader in the development of "green gasoline," and in fall 2008 fall he was one of three experts invited to speak in Washington at a National Science Foundation briefing on how to make the alternative fuel from plant material. In this video, he explains the biofuels conversion process that he has developed at UMass Amherst. Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=262 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=262 Robert C. Holub, UMass Amherst chancellor, was among the featured speakers in a ceremony in downtown Springfield that formalized a new Greater Springfield-University of Massachusetts Amherst Partnership designed to promote collaborations that will lead to the revitalization of Springfield's economy. Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=301 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=301 View a series of video interviews with UMass Amherst faculty as they assess the presidential race and how the candidacies of Barak O'Bama and Sarah Palin are viewed by voters. This presentation is part Amherst Wire, a student-run project of the journalism department dedicated to covering national and global issues from a local perspective alongside breaking news on campus. Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=241 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=241 Want some insight from leading economic thinkers about the nation's financial crisis? Then head to Market Meltdown 101, a primer featuring video clips from UMass Amherst professors, compiled by journalism students at the university's flagship campus. The project is part of Amherst Wire, a student-run project of the journalism department dedicated to covering national and global issues from a local perspective alongside breaking news on campus. With an online magazine-style format, the focus is on good storytelling, colorful multimedia, interactivity, and fostering community dialogue on issues that affect daily life. Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=201 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=201 UMass Amherst alumnus and former GE CEO Jack Welch and his wife, Suzy, popular columnists for BusinessWeek magazine, took questions and offered their observations on current topics in business in an open question-and-answer session with UMass Amherst students Sept. 15 at the Isenberg School of Management. Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=221 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=221 Chancellor Robert C. Holub used the platform of the Faculty Convocation on Sept. 12 to sketch his plans to move UMass Amherst into the top ranks of public universities nationally. Holub told an audience that the campus "must make progress, sometimes substantial progress" in eight key areas: research activity, fundraising, communications, administration, graduate education, undergraduate studies and General Education, facilities, and strategic faculty hiring. This video clip includes excerpts from his address. Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=181 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=181 Alumnus Kenneth R. Feinberg, who directed the $7 billion fund created by Congress to assist the families of those killed or injured in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, spoke to an overflow crowd in the Bernie Dallas room of Goodell Hall on the seventh anniversary of the attacks. Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=161 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=161 K9 unit members Max, an 8-year-old Belgian Malinois and Dutch shepherd mix, and Kaila, a 9-year-old chocolate Labrador retriever, are officially off-duty after a combined seven years of service with the UMass Police Department. Newcomer Bosco is joining the force to follow in his predecessors paw-steps. (Video by Rosie Walunas) Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=142 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=142 More than a dozen girls from the Holyoke chapter of Girls Incorporated visited UMass Amherst for a day in August to tour information technology workplaces and learn about computer-related careers. The girls are participating in a national program called "Build IT," which is designed to tap into the curiosity of girls between the ages of 9 and 15 about design and communication technology. (Video by Rosie Walunas) Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=141 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=141 UMass Amherst is completing a $19 million renovation of Skinner Hall this summer, which will be the new home of the School of Nursing. The refurbished facility, initially constructed in the 1940s, will include classrooms, breakout rooms and a clinical lab that simulates a hospital environment. (Video by Rosie Walunas) Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=121 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=121 University of Massaschusetts Press Director Bruce Wilcox discusses the UMass Press and its 45 years of publishing history. The press is the subject of a special exhibit in the W.E.B Du Bois Library at UMass Amherst through Aug. 31. (Video by Rosie Walunas) Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=86 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=86 UMass Amherst faculty are in the midst of moving into the new Studio Arts Building, which will be open for business this fall. A video tour of this outstanding new facility is led by Jim Cahill, director of facilities and campus planning. The $26 million facility bring together a variety of programs and replaces small, obsolete facilities currently scattered across campus. The 47,000-square-foot building is located on the east side of North Pleasant Street, at the corner of North Pleasant and Infirmary Way, and in close proximity to the Fine Arts Center. (Video by Rosie Walunas) Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=81 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=81 The new central heating plant at UMass Amherst should be in operation this fall, following the final stages of testing. The $127 million co-generation facility, fueled by natural gas and oil, will replace an obsolete, coal-burning facility built in the 1940s, and it will significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The plant is designed to meet the campus' demand for steam and will satisfy nearly all of the demand for electricity. The campus has more than 200 buildings and more than 10 million square feet of space. In this video, Jim Cahill, director of facilities and campus planning, leads a tour of the building as workers prepare it for full operation. (Video by Rosie Walunas) Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=61 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=61 UMass Amherst again hosted the Town of Amherst's annual Independence Day fireworks celebration on the campus fields behind McGuirk Alumni Stadium. In addition to the fireworks, which started about 9:30 p.m., festivities included musical entertainment, a children's carnival, face painting, a pie-eating contest and hot-air balloon rides. (Video by Rosie Walunas) Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=41 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=41 Patrick Deegan, a computer science graduate student at UMass Amherst, shared the stage with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates at the company's TechEd developers conference recently in Orlando. Deegan introduced the "Ballmer-bot," a robot made to imitate and act like Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO. The robot repeated "Developers, developers, developers," using Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio product, in homage to Ballmer's famous rant. The robot also raised his arm, showing how he has the ability to "throw eggs." Deegan works in the laboratory of Rod Grupen, professor of Computer Science. Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=22 http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/video/clip.php?vid=22 Order a video/DVD of the Undergraduate Commencement ceremony, shot with a multi-camera setup and including scenic views of the campus and surrounding area, from student-run cable-TV station UVC-TV 19. Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500