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'Alien' stars invade Milky Way
- Thousands of stars stripped from a nearby dwarf galaxy are streaming through our own Milky Way, according to astronomers. Professor Martin Weinberg comments.
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The Autumn Event lets prospective applicants be undergrads for a day
- You're a high school senior, college bound. You've got your eye on several schools, UMass Amherst among them. It's one of the larger schools on your list, though, and you can't help but wonder: Could I find a place and thrive there?
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Students find a world at their feet
- If you're a student just arriving for the first time to live at UMass, you might be tempted to look at the bustling campus as unknown territory.
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Plumbing the depths of volcanoes
- Professor Christopher Condit comments on a new understanding of what goes on under volcanoes.
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New Fine Arts Center Plaza to be a haven of human-scale beauty and elegance
- A delightful place in which to meet, socialize, and exchange ideas, very much along the lines of one of Europe's classic urban plazas that's what those planning a massive redesign have in mind.
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Jazz in July a joyous tradition for musicians, students, and audiences alike
- Features such outstanding talents as pianist Billy Taylor and vocalist Sheila Jordan.
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New Student Program banishes fears, fuels excitement
- For incoming students at the UMass Amherst, the New Students Program (NSP) calms the fears, spoken and unspoken, that started gaining on them once they were accepted into the university.
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Poised between two worlds, UMass Amherst seniors celebrate
- UMass Amherst celebrates the 133rd Undergraduate Commencement.
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UMass Amherst graduating seniors to be the stars of their own show
- For the 133rd time, UMass Amherst seniors are donning caps, gowns, and multi-colored tassels before heading out into the world beyond campus.
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Three faculty members get Guggenheim nods
- The Guggenheim fellowships are great plums of scholarship and the arts, granted on the basis of an applicant's history of achievement and promise of things to come.
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A vastly improved Bezanson Recital Hall makes its debut
- For 30 years the hall has been an intimate haven for musical performance at the University's Fine Arts Center.
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Fencers take it all in first-ever national championships
- Competed against 17 other schools in the first-ever National Collegiate Club Fencing Championships.
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Spring-break program steeps students in grassroots organizing
- This year's spring break found 41 University of Massachusetts Amherst students willing to can Cancun in favor of something decidedly less frivolous but no less memorable.
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A favorite student hangout gets a bright makeover
- One of its walls may be blue, but the ambiance never has been and now it's cheerier than ever.
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Fans cheer as men's lacrosse looks golden
- The momentum keeps growing and the fans keep turning out, even in the coldest weather.