Campus faces $15m in cuts in new budget
Bracing for a expected funding reduction of up to $15 million, campus executive areas this week began preparing scenarios for budget cuts of 5 percent for the current fiscal year.

Life sciences projects gains $5m
If there was a bright spot in the state budget approved last week by the Legislature, it was a show of support for the proposed Pioneer Valley Life Sciences Initiative with Baystate Medical Center.

Senate commissions review of athletic issues
Concerned about costs in the campus's athletics programs and their impact on academics, the Faculty Senate last week called on its Program and Budget Council (P&BC) to review issues contained in the annual report of the Athletic Council.

Kandula Sastry remembered at campus service
More than 150 people gathered for a service in memory of Physics professor Kandula Sastry in Memorial Hall on Nov. 25. He died Nov. 16 in Cooley Dickinson Hospital of an apparent heart attack. He was 66.

New online center focuses on 'supernetworks'
As technology forges ever tighter links in the areas transportation, telecommunication and finance, the scope and power of networks are continuing to expand and strengthen into so-called "supernetworks" that exceed all previously known systems.

Tenure awards, transfers OK'd
Ihe Board of Trustees awarded tenure to two faculty members and approved the transfer of tenure to other departments for four members of Consumer Studies at its Nov. 7 meeting.

Men's water polo faces No. 1 Stanford in NCAA Final Four
The men's water polo team left late Wednesday for the NCAA Final Four and a tough first-round matchup against host school Stanford University, the No. 1 team in the country.