Exchange From the editors, to the editors.
Around the Pond Solstice time at the UMass sunwheel and other recent highlights.
Branches of Learning Featured dean Brenda Millette of the School of Nursing, and the "Deans' List" of faculty honors.
The Man To Do It An elite private college and its non-elite neighborhoods are growing together, thanks to alumnus Evan Dobelle.
Gold in a Storm An historically black campus in Virginia has problems; fortunately, it also has alumna Marie McDemmond.
A Practicing Partnership High school students helped by UMass nursing undergrads: a high point of the Springfield connection.
Crist & Company Leonine, in a friendly way: the UMass Libraries' new leader.
Gender Voles Does nature nurture daddies? Can difference promote parity? The word from the lab.
Howard, How'd We Get Through Ye? "Howard could be a terror," a colleague agrees. The astonishing Professor Ziff and the program that wouldn't have been the same without him.
Performing Arts Junior Genevieve Rose is playing gigs with a senior statesman of jazz.
Books Arnold Silver lampoons what he sees as the politically over-aware: an excerpt from his novel, Shortchangers .
Extended Family Alumni president practices total immersion, in "UMass Gatherings;"
Great Sport An athletic director's
possibly impossible dream.
North 40 What do English majors do
with those degrees?