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UMass Amherst Breaks Ground for New Marching Band Building
Saturday, October 17, 2009

AMHERST, Mass. – The University of Massachusetts Amherst broke ground today for a $5.7 million Minuteman Marching Band Building. The new, energy-efficient facility will serve as the permanent home for the 300-member band known as “The Power and Class of New England.” It is one of only 27 collegiate marching bands nationally to receive the Sudler Trophy given by the John Philip Sousa Foundation.

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Groundbreaking for New Minuteman Marching Band Building Set for Saturday, Oct. 17 at 1 p.m.
Thursday, October 15, 2009

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DATE: Saturday, Oct. 17, 2009

TIME: 1 p.m.

PLACE: 151 Grinnell Road, off Commonwealth Avenue and adjacent to the UMass Amherst police station.

Officials from the University of Massachusetts Amherst will break ground for a new $5.7 million Minuteman Marching Band Building, which will serve as the permanent home for the band known as “The Power and Class of New England.” George N. Parks, band director, says in addition to the nearly 400 members of the band who will be at the event, he expects a significant number of band alumni and friends to be at the ceremony.

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UMass Amherst Alumna and NASA Astronaut Cady Coleman to Speak Oct. 13
Thursday, October 8, 2009

AMHERST, Mass. – NASA astronaut and University of Massachusetts Amherst alumna Catherine “Cady” Coleman will give a public talk, “International Space Station Bound: A Day in the Life of a Scientist Astronaut,” on Tuesday, Oct. 13 at 4 p.m. in Room 119 of E Lab II on the Amherst campus. The event is free and open to the public and a reception follows the talk.

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National Energy Security to Be Topic of UMass Amherst’s Annual Tang Engineering Lecture on October 8
Tuesday, September 29, 2009

AMHERST, Mass. – Marvin Schlanger, former president and CEO of the ARCO Chemical Co. and an alumnus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, will deliver the College of Engineering’s 10th annual Tang Lecture on Thursday, Oct. 8 at 4 p.m. in Room 1009 at the Campus Center. A reception will follow the talk at 5 p.m.

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Integrated Sciences Building at UMass Amherst Shows Off Top-flight Teaching Labs, Green Building Features
Monday, September 14, 2009

Dedication of $114 Million Facility Marks First Phase of New Science Complex

AMHERST, Mass. – The University of Massachusetts Amherst today dedicated its new 157,000-square-foot Integrated Sciences Building, the anchor of a planned new science complex. The $114.5 million, four-story ISB includes 85,000 square feet of modern classrooms and laboratories, a 300-seat auditorium, research laboratories and faculty offices. In addition, the high-performance design incorporates many environmentally friendly and energy-saving green-building techniques.

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New Book by UMass Amherst Researchers Explores Network Vulnerabilities and Synergies
Wednesday, July 22, 2009

AMHERST, Mass. – The Virtual Center for Supernetworks at the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Isenberg School of Management announces the publication of a new book, Fragile Networks: Identifying Vulnerabilities and Synergies in an Uncertain World (Wiley).

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Seekonk Post Office to Be Dedicated to Former UMass Amherst Student Killed in Iraq
Wednesday, June 24, 2009

AMHERST, Mass. – The post office in Seekonk, Mass., will be dedicated Sunday, June 28 in memory of former UMass Amherst student and Seekonk resident Eric Paul Valdepenas, a U.S. Marine Lance Corporal who died in combat in Iraq in 2006.

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UMass Amherst Students in Biofuels, Artificial Intelligence, Nanocrystals Win Isenberg Awards Supporting Further Research
Monday, June 8, 2009

AMHERST, Mass. – Eight graduate students at the University of Massachusetts Amherst whose academic studies integrate science, engineering and management will receive Eugene M. Isenberg Awards for the 2009-2010 academic year, up to $10,000 each, to support their future work.

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50th Reunion Gift from UMass Amherst Class of 1959 Provides $90,000 for Nursing Doctoral Scholarships
Wednesday, June 3, 2009

AMHERST, Mass. – Members of the Class of 1959 at the University of Massachusetts Amherst will announce their 50th reunion class gift of a $90,000 fund for scholarships for the doctoral program in nursing at a ceremony to be held Saturday, June 6 at 10 a.m. in the courtyard of Skinner Hall.

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Stockbridge School Commencement at UMass Amherst Salutes 85 Graduates
Friday, May 22, 2009

AMHERST, Mass. – Speakers at the 87th commencement for the Stockbridge School of Agriculture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst emphasized history and solidarity as 85 students in six majors received associate of science degrees in Bowker Auditorium this morning.

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