AMHERST, Mass. - John Feudo, associate vice chancellor for University Advancement and executive director of the University of Massachusetts Alumni Association, is resigning from the University. Feudo will become executive director of the University of Connecticut Alumni Association. He will leave UMass in early February.

AMHERST, Mass. - The Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts has appointed four new faculty members this fall. In welcoming the new faculty members, Dean Thomas O’Brien said the school has undergone a number of significant changes this year. "The School of Management has embarked upon a new era. It has a new name - the Isenberg School, and it will open a new high-technology classroom wing in 2002. Representing strategic disciplines, our new faculty members - three of them women - will play major roles in this exciting future."

AMHERST, Mass. - Two publications at the University of Massachusetts have won gold medals from District 1 of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), an international educational association for professionals in alumni relations, communications, and philanthropy. District 1 covers the six New England states and five eastern Canadian provinces.

AMHERST, Mass. - Astronomers from a half-dozen institutions, including the University of Massachusetts, are looking at the universe in a new light with NASA’s launch of the Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite (SWAS). The information provided by the satellite will be used to study the conditions that lead to the birth of stars, a process now hidden in clouds of dust and gas in space.