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Interview with Steven Tracy Featured in Chinese Journal
Friday, January 17, 2020

An interview with Steven Tracy, Distinguished Professor of Afro-American Studies and Distinguished Overseas Professor at Central China Normal University, has been featured in the Chinese journal, “Shandong Foreign Language Teaching.”

Steven Tracy
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Landscape Services to Implement Salt Brine as Anti-icing Agent on Campus
Friday, January 17, 2020

Physical  Plant Landscape and Construction Services staff have been working with Michael Smith, program director with the UMass Transportation Center, on introducing the use of salt brine as a roadways anti-icing agent. 

Salt brine truck
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Libraries Launching Initiatives to support Geographic Information Systems
Friday, January 17, 2020

The libraries are launching several new initiatives to support Geographic Information Systems (GIS) across the university and are offering workshops with a GIS librarian. 

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Wolfe Gives Talk in Edinburgh on Globalization in the 1920s
Friday, January 17, 2020

Joel Wolfe, professor of history presented “Globalization under Paleo-Liberalism: The Western Hemisphere in the 1920s” on Wednesday, Jan. 15 at the Edinburgh Centre for Global History at Edinburgh University.

 

Joel Wolfe
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Five LARP Graduate Students Win Jury Prize in Edmund N. Bacon Urban Design Competition
Friday, January 17, 2020

Five Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning (LARP) students were recently awarded the Jury Price in the 2020 Edmund N. Bacon Urban Design Awards Student Competition. The interdisciplinary team of graduate students was one of four winning teams out of 2500 registered teams from all over the world.

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Shimpach Edits Book on Global Television
Friday, January 17, 2020

Shawn Shimpach, associate professor of communication and director of the Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival, has edited a new collection of television studies scholarship, “The Routledge Companion to Global Television.” 

Cover of Routledge Companion to Global Television
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Jackson and Schweik Awarded by EPA for Salt Marsh Research
Friday, January 17, 2020

Scott Jackson, extension associate professor in the department of environmental conservation and Charlie Schweik, professor at the School of Public Policy and the department of environmental conservation, have received a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Charlie Schweik (left) and Scott Jackson (right)
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Doctoral Oral Exams for Jan. 27– 31
Friday, January 17, 2020
The graduate dean invites all graduate faculty to attend the final oral examinations for the doctoral candidates scheduled as follows: Ryan Ambuter, Ph.D., College of Education, Monday, Jan. 27, 11 a.m., N125 Furcolo. Dissertation: “In Our Very Flesh, (R)evolution”: An Exploration...
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New Data Dashboards Introduced to Support Faculty, Staff in Decision-making
Friday, January 17, 2020

To provide the campus with a robust set of tools to better inform decision-making, the new office of University Analytics and Institutional Research (UAIR) has developed Flagship Analytics, a set of data dashboards available to all faculty and staff.

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VIDEO: Old Chapel Bells
Thursday, January 16, 2020

Hear the Old Chapel Bells play a short song in this Facebook video. 

Old chapel
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