AMHERST, Mass. - The splitting of a species into two new species may occur in far fewer generations than scientists previously believed, according to a study led by University of Massachusetts postdoctoral researcher Andrew Hendry. Hendry, an evolutionary ecologist, conducted his study on two populations of sockeye salmon in the Pacific Northwest. The findings are published in the Oct. 20 issue of the journal, Science. His co-authors are Paul Bentzen and Thomas Quinn, both of the University of Washington, John Wenburg of the University of Montana, and Eric Volk of the Washington State Department of Fish and Game.

AMHERST, Mass. - The University of Massachusetts was recently awarded a one-year $215,000 grant from the non-profit Nellie Mae Foundation to conduct a study on how changes in educational policy affect New England students as they move from primary, secondary, and high school through college. The study will be conducted by the Massachusetts Institute for Social and Economic Research (MISER) and the Center for Education Policy (CEP) in the School of Education located at the University''s Amherst campus.

AMHERST, Mass. - University of Massachusetts computer scientist Raghavan Manmatha has received a $450,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) aimed at finding ways to conduct computer searches on historical, handwritten document collections.

AMHERST, Mass. - University of Massachusetts Professor Anna Nagurney has received three grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) worth nearly $470,000 to conduct research on how travelers and consumers make decisions involving telecommuting and teleshopping. Nagurney will also look at decision-making in the information age and will explore transportation, and communications networks in the U.S., and develop a model for transportation and land use based on data from Sweden