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Video: Chancellor's Welcome to the New Academic Year
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Chancellor Kumble R. Subbaswamy welcomes the UMass Amherst campus community to the 2015-16 academic year.
Kumble Subbaswamy
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Video: It's Easy to Get a UMass License Plate
Tuesday, September 15, 2015
The UMass license plate is available to the public online and can be mailed to your door – no waiting in line at the RMV. The plate is also available at most local MassDOT RMV branches. Proceeds help support scholarships and programs that advance students, alumni and UMass Amherst. The...
UMass license plate
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Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen to Deliver Annual Gamble Memorial Lecture at UMass Amherst
Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen will deliver the annual Philip Gamble Memorial Lecture at UMass Amherst Thursday, Sept. 24, at 5 p.m. in the Fine Arts Center Concert Hall.

Janet Yellen
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Award-Winning Chef Joanne Weir Launches New Cookbook by Preparing Five-Course Meals at UMass Clubs
Saturday, August 29, 2015

Chef Joanne Weir will be preparing a five-course, prix-fixe dinner on Wednesday, Sept. 16 from 5-9 p.m. at the University Club & Restaurant at UMass Amherst and at the University of Massachusetts Club in Boston on Thursday, Sept. 17 from 5-9 p.m. to launch her new cookbook, “Kitchen Gypsy: Recipes and Stories from a Lifelong Romance with Food.”

Joanne Weir
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UMass Amherst Chooses Attorney and Former Town Official Eric Beal as First Neighborhood Liaison
Monday, August 3, 2015

Eric Beal, an Amherst attorney and former chair of the Amherst Zoning Board of Appeals, has been appointed to the newly created position of neighborhood liaison at the UMass Amherst, effective Aug. 3.

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Pamela and Robert Jacobs Provide $5 Million Gift to Support Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, Holocaust Studies at UMass Amherst
Monday, July 13, 2015

UMass Amherst has announced a $5 million bequest from long-time university supporters Pamela and Robert Jacobs.

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Alumnus Kenji Summers Named Fellow at Aspen Ideas Festival
Friday, June 5, 2015
Alumnus Kenji Summers, founder of Passport Life in Brooklyn, N.Y., has been named to the inaugural class of Aspen Arthur Davis Vining Fellows at the 2015 Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado in July. Summers, who graduted in 2008, was selected from a competitive field of national nominees who are...
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Friends of George Richason Invited to Informal Gathering in his Memory
Thursday, May 28, 2015

All friends of the late George Richason are invited to meet Saturday, June 13 at Amherst Golf Club, where George spent many a Saturday watching over the First Tee with a hat and stogie. There will be free barbecue and a cash bar.

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Amber Davis Completes World Trade Center Stair Climb for Charity
Thursday, May 28, 2015
Amber Davis, business manager in veterinary and animal sciences and a 2007 graduate in Judaic studies, raced up the sweltering stairwell of One World Trade Center in New York City on May 17 with 900 fellow competitors to raise money for service members catastrophically injured in war. The race,...
Amber Davis
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Four UMass Amherst Scientists Receive Manning Inventor Fellowships
Thursday, May 28, 2015

UMass Amherst recently announced its first Manning Inventor Fellowships, awarded to four research science entrepreneurs to help these creative and motivated graduate students and postdoctoral fellows commercialize discoveries made in campus laboratories.

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