Services
Alumni Career
Services Program
Career counseling and job transition assistance available to UMass
Amherst alumni either by phone, email or in person (including appointments
in Boston). Assistance available with job search strategies, networking,
employer contacts, career assessment, and career change issues. Site also
offers links to other job transition resources, including job listings.
Archaeological Services (UMASS)
Archaeological Services (UMASS) is an archaeological consulting
service specializing in all phases of cultural resource management projects,
including archaeological and historical background research and field
testing, site examination, and data recovery for historic and prehistoric
sitess.
Arts Extension Service (AES)
The Arts Extension Service (AES) is a national organization creating
learning opportunities "that develop the arts in communities and
community through the arts." AES does this through continuing education
for artists, arts organizations, and community leaders.
Assistive
Technologies Center (ATC)
The UMass Library System's Assistive Technologies Center (ATC)
provides adaptive services to any member of the University community or
Commonwealth of Massachusetts who has an ADA-defined disability and requires
an accommodation for library use. Some examples include retrieval of materials
from the stacks, photocopying, large print user guides, scanning assistance,
screen readers, text enhancements, and text enlargers.
Campus Career Network
The Campus Career Network is a source for employment candidates,
including working undergraduates, recent graduates, and alumni in over
100 disciplines. The Career Network provides employer assistance through:
electronic resume referral; recruiting program; field experience; campuswide
career fairs and information sessions; and diversity coordination. Provides
liaison service for employers to academic departments.
Campus Center Events Office
The Campus Center Events Office provides an integrated method of
getting information and utilizing meeting and conference services of the
UMass Campus Center. Center for Economic Development (CED) http://www.umass.edu/larp/CED/index.html
The Center for Economic Development (CED) provides technical assistance
to cities, towns and organizations to retain and expand their employment
base. Center for Immigrant and Refugee
Center for Educational Software Development
The Center for Educational Software Development is a campus service organization dedicated to the design, development and deployment of instructional technology at the Univerity of Massachusetts Amherst. CESD builds collaborations with UMass faculty and external institutions and community groups, and uses tools and expertise developed in more than a decade of technology research to serve University departments as well as the state's K-12 schools.
Center for Economic
Development (CED)
The Center for Economic Development (CED) provides technical assistance
to cities, towns and organizations to retain and expand their employment
base.
Center for Immigrant
and Refugee Community Leadership and
Empowerment (CIRCLE)
CIRCLE offers collective leadership and community development programs for local
Cambodian, Vietnamese, Hmong, Tibetan, Russian, and Somali groups. Graduate students
in community development and undergraduate students in service learning provide
training, field support, and monitoring programs. The Center models a form of
collective leadership drawing on the strengths of all participants - all participants
are considered both teachers and learners. Participants work together to bridge
the divide of culture, race, religion, class, gender, and generations; and to
cross the barriers between communities and institutions.
Center for Information Technology
and Dispute Resolution
The mission of the Center for Information Technology and Dispute
Resolution is to support and sustain the development of knowledge bases,
systems, and processes for resolving conflict in cyberspace, as well as
to further understanding of disputing and dispute resolution. The Center
is actively involved in dispute mediation and participates in making educational
opportunities available.
Center for International Securities
and Derivatives Markets
An academic research center which focuses on security and investment
fund performance in both U.S. and international asset markets. Provides
research information to financial firms and others.
Center for Language,
Speech and Hearing
The Center for Language, Speech and Hearing serves the speech,
language, and hearing needs of the communicatively impaired child and adult.
The clinic staff provide a broad range of screening-identification, evaluation,
rehabilitation, therapy, achnd consultation services for various disorders
of communication.
Center For Manufacturing Productivity
(CMP)
The Center for Manufacturing Productivity (CMP) assists manufacturers in meeting
current competitive challenges, with emphasis on: conversion from defense to
commercia manufacturing; development of computer-aided technologies and systems;
modernization of management structures; adaptation to meet overseas product standards
and adequately address export requirements of foreign markets; better utilization
of human resources; improvement of production and control. CMP matches specific
business needs with appropriate University expertise.
Center for Nutrition in
Sport and Human Performance
The mission of the Center for Nutrition in Sport and Human Performance is to conduct research and provide education in establishing sound nutritional and fitness practices associated with participation in athletic or related exercise programs. The Center provides educational support for health and fitness professionals as well as off campus coaches and athletic trainers who typically do not have formal training in sport/exercise nutrition.
Center for Public Policy
and Administration (CPPA)
The Center for Public Policy and Administration (CPPA) provides
research, teaching and outreach services to public and private
organizations. The Center works in areas including environmental policy,
non-profit management, social welfare, education policy and others. Examples
of projects include: working with governmental and non-governmental organizations
seeking faculty to carry out funded research, local governments soliciting
advice in public policy or administration, and journalists pursuing expert
sources.
Center for Tourism Research
and Management (TRAM)
The Center for Tourism Research and Management (TRAM) assists in
the development and management of tourism. Services include: economic, social,
and cultural impact studies and hospitality service training workshops for
public and private businesses, organizations and communities.
Commercial Ventures and Intellectual
Property Office (CVIP)
The Office of CVIP operates on all five UMass campuses to bring
commercial value to University research. CVIP provides guidance through
this process and helps to identify and evaluate research that may have commercial
value. CVIP also works with outside patent counsel to protect intellectual
property in the U.S. and abroad. The central office is at UMass Medical
Center in Worcester.
Community
Career Services Program
The University Career Network Office offers an evening fee-based career consulting
program for those from the wider community who are not UMass alumni. A consortium
of career center staff offer a full range of job search and career management
assistance at a reasonable cost.
Community
Leadership and Empowerment (CIRCLE)
CIRCLE offers collective leadership and community development programs
for local Cambodian, Vietnamese, Hmong, Tibetan, Russian, and Somali groups.
Graduate students in community development and undergraduate students in
service learning provide training, field support, and monitoring programs.
The Center models a form of collective leadership drawing on the strengths
of all participants - all participants are considered both teachers and
learners. Participants work together to bridge the divide of culture, race,
religion, class, gender, and generations; and to cross the barriers between
communities and institutions.
Counseling and Assessment Services
(CAS)
Counseling and Assessment Services (CAS) administers national testing
programs such as the College Level Examination Program (CLEP) and the Miller
Analogies Test (MAT). In addition, CAS offers a controlled site for secure,
decentralized testing for outside organizations. Limited consulting is available
for areas related to education evaluation, personnel selection, and instrument
development.
Intellectual Property Office
(CVIP)
The Office of CVIP operates on all five UMass campuses to bring
commercial value to University research. CVIP provides guidance through
this process and helps toidentify and evaluate research that may have commercial
value. CVIP also works with outside patent counsel to protect intellectual
property in the U.S. and abroad. The central office is at UMass Medical
Center in Worcester.
Donahue Institute
The Donahue Institute is the public service and outreach unit of
the University of Massachusetts President’s Office, offering services
involving economic and organizational development.
Earth Sciences Information Office
(ESIO)
The Earth Science Information Office (ESIO), part of The Environmental
Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, is the Massachusetts
branch of the Earth Science Information Center, a division of the U.S. Geological
Survey (USGS), Department of Interior. The ESIO provides various types of
maps and other cartographic information, including aerial photographs and
space images available from federal, state, and local governmental agencies,
and from private sources.
Environmental
Analysis Laboratory
The Environmental Analysis Laboratory conducts a wide variety oftests for publicly
supported environmental research, management or monitoring activities, particularly
efforts requiring substantial numbers of samples.
Environmental Institute (TEI)
The Environmental Institute (TEI) provides public agencies and
private industries with a central access point to the environmental expertise
at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. TEI creates research partnerships
and manages environmental research, education, and outreach programs through
five centers: the National Environmental Technology Institute (NETI),
the Water Resources Research Center (WRRC), the Cooperative Marine Education
and Research Program (CMER), the Office of Geographic Information and
Analysis (OGIA), and Archaeological Services (ARCH). TEI administers competitive
research grant programs: the NETI program is open to UMass Amherst faculty;
the WRRC program is open to faculty at all institutions of higher education
in Massachusetts; and the CMER grant program is open to all faculty in
the University of Massachusetts system.
Everywoman's Center
The Everywoman Center's mission is to provide leadership in promoting educational
access and equity for women, to empower women to take full control of their
lives and to strengthen connections among women. The Center offers five different
programs and two projects designed to serve the needs of the diverse cultural
and linguistic populations of the University and surrounding community.
Extension 4-H Youth and Family Development
Program
The Massachusetts 4-H Program helps youth learn life skills that they need to be successful children and adults. These include communication, decision-making, problem solving, sharing and conflict resolution skills. Youth do this through projects in subject areas of interest to them — these could involve dogs, photography, horses or fitness, just to name a few possibilities. 4-H youth learn through “hands-on” learning, becoming engaged in an activity and then sharing and processing the information they have. Volunteer club leaders guide young people through the process in towns and cities throughout Massachusetts. Optional educational activities and competitive events occur at the county or regional level and there are state level activities and competitive events. A network of programs and events in the areas of animal science, communications, and community service is available to support 4-H club members and volunteers.
Family Business Center
The Family Business Center assists family-owned businesses to be
more professional, to develop policies and procedures based on best practices,
and to improve communication and strategizing skills. It offers forums,
roundtables, a website, a newsletter, referral and counseling services.
Government Documents Collection and Services http://www.library.umass.edu/govdoc.shtml
The W.E.B. Du Bois Library Government Documents collection includes publications
from the U.S. Government, the Massachusetts State Government, and the
United Nations. These publications are available to the academic community
and the community at large.
Food Science Pilot Plant
The Food Science Pilot Plant offers facilities for testing and
evaluating pilot scale processes for new products. Companies can assess
and develop new products at the Pilot Plant before proceeding to a full
manufacturing scale.
Forensic Anthropological Services
Forensic Anthropological Services in the Department of Anthropology as a fee-based
unit that provides the State Medical Examiner's Office and law enforcement
agencies with the expertise they require in the identification of human remains.
Government Documents
Collection and Services
The W.E.B. Du Bois Library Government Documents collection includes
publications from the U.S. Government, the Massachusetts State Government,
and the United Nations. These publications are available to the academic
community and the community at large.
History Institute
The History Institute is the outreach arm of the UMass Amherst History Department.
The Institute arranges in-service training for K-12 teachers in Western Massachusetts
through its weekday Conversations Series, day-long workshops, and summer seminars.
Industrial Assessment Center (IAC)
The Industrial Assessment Center (IAC) staff serves small and medium
sized manufacturing plants in New England by providing no-cost
energy efficiency analyses of their plant and process operations. It assists
these plants in conserving energy, reducing pollution, increasing productivity,
lowering operating costs, minimizing waste and preventing pollution.
Research Liaison and Development
Research Liaison and Development's mission is to maximize the value of UMass Amherst as a partner to industry
and as a contributor to econmically successful state and region. They do this
by applying professional attention to the quality and productivity of relationships
and initatives that can benefit the University.
K-12 Internet Access Center
The UMass K-12 Project has made Internet services widely available for Massachusetts
K-12 educators and students. It features access to a huge variety of educational
resources with user-friendly interfaces and strong user support services. The
service is provided by the University of Massachusetts Amherst with the assistance
of other UMass campuses, the MassNet state college network, Westfield State
College, Mount Holyoke College, and Franklin County Technical School.
Labor Relations and Research Center
The Labor Relations and Research Center at the University of Massachusetts
Amherst is a highly regarded graduate program for those who want to work
in the labor movement. The Labor Relations and Research Center is an integrated
program of graduate education, research, and direct service to workers
and the labor movement.
Laboratory for the
Assessment and Training of Academic Skills (LATAS)
LATAS provides assessment and intervention services to children,
youth and adults with learning disabilities and conducts research directed
toward developing new procedures for assessing and treating learning disabilities.
Its research is also directed towards the creation of a theoretical understanding
of the nature of learning disabilities.
Research and Instructional Services
The University of Massachusetts Library system provides reference
assistance including consultations on finding information through print
or electronic media. In addition, the Library offers electronicly available
reference services through the "Ask a Librarian Link."
Mass Ventures
Mass Ventures is a regional venture development company and is
focused on building high growth companies in Western Massachusetts. It
was established in 1995 by a partnership of the University of Massachusetts,
the business community, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, dedicated
to supporting the entrepreneurial emergence in this region. Mass Ventures
provides professional services including strategic planning, marketing,
financial planning to a range of industries.
Massachusetts Historical
Manuscript Collections
As the principal public archival repository in the western part
of the state, the Special Collections and Archives Department acquires,
preserves, and makes available material pertaining to the history of Massachusetts.
The archive is also the home of the papers of W.E.B. Du Bois, African-American
scholar and statesman, for whom the library is named.
Massachusetts
Nutrient Data Bank (MNDB)
The Massachusetts Nutrient Data Bank (MNDB) provides computer-assisted
evaluations of dietary intake information for research, clinical, and educational
programs, individual or group evaluations, or product development.
Massachusetts
Pesticide Analysis Laboratory (MPAL)
The Massachusetts Pesticide Analysis Laboratory (MPAL) provides
analytical services and scientific expertise for the regulation of pesticide
use and enforcement of pesticide regulations in Massachusetts. MPAL is able
toanalyze most commonly used pesticides including insecticides, herbicides,
and fungicides, using state-of-the-art liquid and gas chromatographic techniques.
MPAL’s analytical hich staff interacts with other chemists, biologists,
toxicologists, and scientists with related expertise on the UMass Amherst
campus. MPAL is available for contract work related to land use, historical
pesticide use, the monitoring of pesticide fate in active use areas such
as golf courses, greenhouses, nurseries, etc.
Massachusetts Small Business Development
Center (MSBDC)
The MSBDC provides a comprehensive program of counseling assistance
and educational training programs to existing and prospective small businesses.
Services include business plan development, finance, cash flow management,
international trade development, minority business assistance and domestic
and international market assessments. Also, over 150 training programs are
conducted annually addressing a variety of topics and sophistication.
Massachusetts
State Data Center
The Massachusetts State Data Center is part of the national network
of the U.S. Census Bureau and is operated by the Massachusetts Institute
for Social and Economic Research (MISER) at the UMass Amherst. It makes
available an extensive collection of census data for Massachusetts, New
England, and the United States. The Center’s products and assistance
are available to local community leaders, planners, businesses, researchers,
and the general public.
Massachusetts Water Watch Partnership
(MassWWP)
The Massachusetts Water Watch Partnership (MassWWP) provides training
and other technical assistance to citizen organizations who conduct water
quality monitoring programs on the lakes, rivers, and estuaries of Massachusetts.
Begun in 1990, MassWWP operates under the administration of the Water
Resources Research Center of the University of Massachusetts Amherst's
Environmental Institute.
Molecular Visualization
Software Workshops
A number of software tools are available through this program of the University's
Department of Microbiology to enable educators at the high school or college
level to incorporate visualization of three-dimensional protein or nucleic acid
structure into their teaching.
Nutrition Information and Bulletin
Board Learning Experience (NIBBLE)
NIBBLE, a project of the University's Department of Nutrition, is a nutrition education website designed for low-literate learners. With easy-to-read nutrition information, tools to assess knowledge and food practices, NIBBLE is useful for teachers of adult basic education and consumers looking for nutrition information. Additional nutrition courses and seminars are available online through UMassONE, Online Nutrition Education, at www.umassone.net.
Office of Geographic Information
and Analysis (OGIA)
The Office of Geographic Information and Analysis (OGIA) assists
the University community with GIS technologies in teaching, research, and
public service. It is a central repository at UMass Amherst for spatial
data sets from MassGIS and works with the University Library in offering
a digital library of map images and GIS data for Massachusetts over the
Internet. OGIA manages GIS site licenses for ESRI and MapInfo products for
the UMass five campus system as well as other eligible state institutions
of higher education. It offers a wide range of services, from simple data
conversion and capture through more complex analysis and modeling to GIS
planning and implementation studies. Clients include University departments,
municipal governments, regional planning agencies, state, regional and federal
agencies.
Patent and Trademark
Depository Library
The Physical Sciences and Engineering Library at the University
of Massachusetts Amherst is an official Patent and Trademark Depository
Library and as such, offers full searching capabilities for U.S. patents
and trademarks.
Psychological Services
Center (PSC)
The Psychological Services Center (PSC) is a professional training
clinic which is staffed and maintained by the Doctoral Training Program
in Clinical Psychology at the UMass Amherst. Services available include:
individual psychotherapy; couple therapy; group therapy; and psychological
testing. Psychotherapy services are provided by pre-doctoral students and
post-doctoral respecialization students who are enrolled in this program
and are closely supervised by licensed clinical psychologists on staff in
the Clinical program and from the community. PSC provides services at a
very low cost using a sliding fee scale structure.
Social and Demographic Research Institute
(SADRI)
The Social and Demographic Research Institute (SADRI) of the University's
Department of Sociology provides administrative and technical support for
social science and professional research activities. Through SADRI, agencies
and companies can arrange for consulting and contractual research services
in research design, project evaluations, statistical methods, grant preparation,
demographic studies, surveys, and data analysis.
Statistical Consulting Center
(SCC)
The UMass Statistical Consulting Center (SCC) provides a full range
of statistical consulting services and also maintains educational and research
roles. The SCC's primary role is to provide its customers with assistance
in using statistical methods. Most of this assistance is in the form of
statistical consulting but the Center can al provide short-term cooperative
research projects and proposals, and provide technical personnel and specialized
computational services as needed. It also provides access to other University
services and personnel.
Strategic Envirotechnology
Partnership (STEP)
The Strategic Envirotechnology Partnership (STEP) is an innovative program to
launch Massachusetts as a national leader in promoting the growth of new environmental
and energy-efficient technologies. STEP offers environmental and energy technology
companies an integrated package of services to assist them in moving forward
with their ideas. By using the STEP resources, envirotech companies will make
themselves more attractive to both public and private financing sources. As a
result of involvement with STEP, industries will receive an independent assessment
of their technology's performance, potential openings into state government markets,
and contacts with public and private business and technical assistance agencies.
The Media Education Foundation
The Media Education Foundation produces educational resources concerned
with the social impact of the mass media around issues such as gender,
race, sexuality, violence and commercialism. It is a nonprofit educational
organization led by Sut Jhally of the University's Department of Communication.
It is " devoted to media research and production of resources to
aid educators and others in fostering analytical media literacy. We believe
that a media literate citizenry is essential to a vibrant democracy in
a diverse and complex society."
Translation Center
The Translation Center offers professional, high quality translations
to businesses, schools, hospitals, governments, community organizations,
and private individuals. It provides a full range of services, including
translation and interpretation services, webpage translation, software
localization, video voice-overs, creative translations of marketing materials,
and multi-lingual wordprocessing and design.ii
UMass Amherst Library system
The UMass Amherst Library system is the largest at any state-supported
institution in New England. Present holdings include more than five million
books, periodicals, government documents and electronic resources serviced
from four locations: the 28-story W.E.B. Du Bois Library, the Physical
Sciences and Engineering Library, the Biological Sciences Library, and
the Music Reserve Lab in the Fine Arts Center. Special strengths of the
collection include Afro-American Studies, Chemical Engineering, Electrical
and Computer Engineering, English and American Literatures, Geology, Horticulture,
Latin America, Massachusetts/New England History, Mathematics, and Polymer
Science. The Library System is also a depository for U.S. government documents,
patents, and maps. The Library is open to the public seven days a week.
Full borrowing privileges are extended to all adult Massachusetts residents.
UMass Educational Television (UMET)
UMass Educational Television (UMET) produces innovative educational programs
for children and adults. Programs can be seen on cable television and can be
purchased for classroom or home use through the UMET video catalog. UMET functions
as a hands on, video production training laboratory for graduate and undergraduate
students at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and offers assistantship
and internship opportunities.
UMass Extension
Bookstore
The UMass Extension Bookstore sells academic publications such as manuals and
workbooks related to the outreach programs of UMass Extension (Agriculture and Landscape; 4-H
Youth and Family Development; Natural Resrouces and Environmental Conservation;
and Nutrition Education). Its website also features online and downloadable publications
as well.
University Conference
Services (UCS)
University Conference Services (UCS) provides conference and program
management with an emphasis on personalized service. UCS offers comprehensive
computerized registration services that can be customized to the specific
needs of your event. Campus facilities include 10,000 residence hall rooms
during summer season; 10,000-seat Mullins Center arena; 2,000 seat Fine
Arts Center venue and smaller auditorium and meeting spaces.
Urban Places Project (UPP)
The Urban Places Project (UPP), based in the University's Department
of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, is dedicated to preserving
and enhancing the quality of urban life through planning and design. UPP's
focus is academic outreach and applied research, particularly in low-income
and minority neighborhoods that have not traditionally had access to design
and physical planning assistance.
Western Massachusetts Writing Project
(WMWP)
The Western Massachusetts Writing Project (WMWP) is a local site of the National
Writing Project. WMWP provides services to schools, school districts, and individual
K-12 teachers in Western Massachusetts. Its principal function is the in-service
training of teachers, though its trained teacher-consultants are able to advise
on curriculum design, testing, and assessment. Working with a school or school
system, WMWP will design and implement an in-service program, using its teacher-consultants
as workshop leaders.
