The Isenberg School of Management at UMass Amherst reminds Ware students that they are eligible for the Charles P. McQuaid scholarship, which will cover approximately 70 percent of in-state tuition and fees. One new scholarship is awarded yearly for incoming students from Ware and its surrounding communities.

Until recently, scientists thought of viruses as mostly small infectious agents, tiny compared to typical bacteria and human cells. So imagine the surprise when biologist Jeff Blanchard and Ph.D. student Lauren Alteio at UMass Amherst, with others at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), discovered giant viruses – relatively speaking the size of Macy’s parade day balloons – in soil at Harvard Forest in Petersham, Massachusetts.