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 Employer Profile: University of Massachusetts Amherst
A leading center for public higher education in the Northeast, the University of Massachusetts Amherst has gained a reputation for excellence in a growing number of fields, for its wide and varied academic offerings, and for its expanding historic roles in education, research, and public service.
The flagship campus of the Commonwealth's University system, the University of Massachusetts Amherst is a major research university enrolling more than 24,000 students, from the entire United States and nearly 100 countries.
Established in 1863 under the Morrill Land Grant Act as Massachusetts Agricultural College, and opened in 1867 on a 310-acre campus with 4 faculty members, 4 buildings and 56 students, "Mass Aggie" became Massachusetts State College in 1931 and the University of Massachusetts in 1947 during a post-World War II growth surge.
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 FIRE - University of Massachusetts at Amherst: Suppression of ‘Racist’ Speech   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
University of Massachusetts at Amherst: Suppression of ‘Racist’ Speech
Now the university is persecuting nine students who were seen in photographs containing a caricature of one of them as the "Grand Wizard" of the Ku Klux Klan.
Defenders of the contemporary university establishment argue that the problem is exaggerated or that the criticism is itself repressive, designed to silence the ``progressive'' voice.
www.thefire.org /index.php/case/649.html   (597 words)

  
 University of Massachusetts Amherst - College Closeup
Situated on the Connecticut River in the Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts, 20 miles north of Springfield, the campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst consists of 1,450 acres of land and buildings.
Amherst is less than 100 miles from Boston, 175 miles from New York City, and only 30 miles from Vermont and New Hampshire.
The Five College Consortium (Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts Amherst) permits students from the University of Massachusetts Amherst to study at and use the resources of any of the four other colleges in the area.
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 University of Massachusetts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The University of Massachusetts Amherst was known as the University of Massachusetts from 1947 until the creation of the UMass system.
Like many colleges and universities, Massachusetts Agricultural College (as it was called) the Amherst campus was founded as a land-grant college in 1863, receiving initial start-up funding as part of the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act.
From 1996 to 2003, the President of the University was William Bulger, president of the Massachusetts State Senate for seventeen years, and prominent and influential Democratic politician with roots in South Boston.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/University_of_Massachusetts   (585 words)

  
 University of Massachusetts Amherst - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is the main campus of the University of Massachusetts system.
In 2003, for the first time, UMass Amherst was legally designated by the state legislature to be a "research university" and the "flagship campus" of the UMass system.
This award coincided with a vote by the Massachusetts legislature to move state documents to a non-proprietary open document format; however, the assertion that these two occurrences are linked is yet to be substantiated.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/University_of_Massachusetts_Amherst   (4951 words)

  
 University of Massachusetts Amherst   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The University of Massachusetts Amherst is the founding campus of the University of Massachusetts system.
The UMass Amherst Division of Continuing Education, founded in 1971, provides access to the academic resources of the University to part-time students, working professionals, local and national business firms, and to the general community.
Access to the excellence of the University is now within the reach of all those who have been unable to become part of our residential community.
www.ecollege.com /ep/UniversityMa.learn   (292 words)

  
 University of Massachusetts Amherst Visa® card
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Low rates, online convenience and full protection from unauthorized charges are just a few of the benefits that you will receive.
University of Massachusetts Amherst Visa® card is issued by First USA Bank, NA.
www.firstusa.com /xcards4/spcards/u_ma_amherst.html   (182 words)

  
 Welcome to the University of Massachusetts
Something To Be Proud Of For more than 140 years, the University of Massachusetts has provided high quality educational opportunities for Massachusetts residents and for students and faculty from all over the world.
Find out how the University serves the state as an economic engine and catalyst for social development and get information about partnerships and other opportunities.
This is an official page/publication of the University of Massachusetts.
www.massachusetts.edu   (190 words)

  
 Distance Learning Profiles - University of Massachusetts Amherst   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The distance education courses are taught by UMass Amherst faculty members who hold doctorates or terminal degrees in their respective fields, or by qualified adjunct faculty members or graduate teaching assistants.
The RN to Bachelor of Science degree program is designed to meet the educational goals of Massachusetts registered nurses.
The UMass Amherst Division of Continuing Education allows any person with a high school diploma or its equivalent to register for courses.
www.distancelearningprofiles.com /umassamherst.html   (939 words)

  
 UMass Extension at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
UMass Extension at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
It seemed as though this was something else, perhaps something new."Childs passed the problem along to his colleague Joe Elkinton, a forest insect ecologist, but he wasn't able to identify the insect definitively either, since it was now evident that the moths were emerging in winter, not spring or fall.
They next sent their samples to David Wagner at the University of Connecticut, one of three top experts in North America on forest caterpillars.
www.umassextension.org   (445 words)

  
 FIRE - University of Massachusetts - Amherst
University of Massachusetts - Amherst has been given a speech code rating of Red.
FIRE Cases at University of Massachusetts - Amherst
University of Massachusetts at Amherst: Refusal to Permit Pro-War Speech
www.thefire.org /index.php/schools/763   (239 words)

  
 University of Massachusetts, Amherst
The Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst has considerable experience and expertise in the gas turbine area.
Funded under the Advanced Gas Turbine Systems Research Program (principal investigator—P.C. Malte, University of Washington), he conducted advanced numerical simulations of the Staged Prevaporizer-Premixer, a device that enables the premixed combustion of liquid fuels in gas turbine engines.
Computer models he has developed at the University of Massachusetts to optimize water recovery systems will be published and presented at the upcoming ASME turbo expo in Amsterdam, June 2002, the IJPGC Conference in Phoenix, AZ, and also at the ECOS 2002 in Berlin, Germany.
www.clemson.edu /scies/UTSR/PMUnivMAamherst.htm   (680 words)

  
 Agriculture and Landscape—UMass Extension Vegetable Team
The University of Massachusetts Extension program has directly supported the development of Community Supported Agriculture and worked hand in hand with CSA farms for nearly two decades.
In Massachusetts, for example, this food import imbalance translates to a $4 billion leak in the state economy on an annual basis.
UMass studies have determined that Massachusetts could produce closer to 35% of its food supply.
www.umassvegetable.org /food_farming_systems/csa   (1571 words)

  
 University of Massachusetts - Official Athletic Site - Softball
Saturday's fall ball softball games at the University of Connecticut have been cancelled due to weather and unplayable field conditions.
The Minutewomen are still scheduled to face Long Island University (12:15 PM) and Providence (4:00 PM) on Sunday.
Merchant comes to UMass from the University of Michigan where she was a four-year letterwinner and led the Wolverines to the 2005 national championship.
umassathletics.cstv.com /sports/w-softbl/umas-w-softbl-body.html   (618 words)

  
 University of Massachusetts - Official Athletic Site - Ice Hockey
Massachusetts returns to the ice Saturday night when they face Clarkson of the ECACHL.
UMass defeated the University of New Brunswick by the score of 4-2 in an exhibition game on Friday night at the Mullins Center practice rink.
The Minutemen were especially strong on special teams during the course of the game, scoring two power play goals and killing off 12 penalties.
umassathletics.collegesports.com /sports/m-hockey/umas-m-hockey-body.html   (586 words)

  
 PNY Collegiate Attach? University of Massachusetts Amherst - USB flash drive - 512 MB - Compare prices, shop, and buy ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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 The Daily Collegian
The group of engineering students at the University of Massachusetts who designed and constructed a portable seatbelt as part of a required engineering course last semester, are planning to eventually market the device as a finished product.
There is no way the Massachusetts men's soccer team could have imagined this.
Located right next-door to Tully O'Reillys' is its sister bar Elevens, a nightclub boasting a full bar, and the same great service and friendly atmosphere that regulars have come to expect from Tully O'Reillys.
www.dailycollegian.com   (408 words)

  
 Astronomy Department, UMass
In addition to the super massive fl hole at the center, the area is filled with all sorts of inhabitants that affect and influence one another.
The findings also raise the intriguing possibility that more matter than previously thought may be tied up in these galaxy groups, captured in the lattice of the cosmic web.
The research is being presented by Sanchayeeta Borthakur, a doctoral student of Min S. Yun of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
www.astro.umass.edu   (316 words)

  
 [UMassHillel] Welcome!
T-Shirts (baseball style) with "UMass Amherst" written in Hebrew make great gifts and are available in the Hillel Office for $8 (UMass students) and $12 (all others).
T-shirts (regular short sleeve style) with "UMass Amherst" written in Hebrew are also available in the Hillel Office for $10 (UMass students) and $12 (all others).
For information on how you can donate to support Jewish students at UMass Amherst, call the Hillel Office at (413) 549-1710.
umasshillel.org   (416 words)

  
 University of Massachusetts Amherst
The Amherst 250 Plan is growing the faculty with a new generation of scholars.
These four new members of the campus teaching community bring impressive credentials.
The basketball season officially began Friday night as the UMass men's and women's basketball teams held their Midnight Madness event in front of a capacity crowd.
www.umass.edu   (129 words)

  
 The College of Engineering University of Massachusetts | Home
CEE Takes TEAAM Approach to Mentoring Students The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), the UMass Traffic Safety Research Program, and the student chapter of the Institute of Transportation Engineers have collaborated to start a pilot program for mentoring students interested in careers in transportation engineering.
Undergraduates Create Portable Seatbelts for Sara’s Wish Foundation Undergraduates in the College of Engineering at UMass Amherst have created lightweight, portable seatbelts capable of saving many of the 2,000 lives lost each year by Americans traveling abroad.
The mechanical engineering students invented these lifesaving seatbelts at the request of the Amherst-based Sara’s Wish Foundation, established to improve travel safety abroad and named after an American student who was killed quite tragically while studying in India.
www.ecs.umass.edu   (191 words)

  
 Computer Vision Laboratory at UMASS-> Homepage
If you have a publication that is not in the online publications database please send it to this address.
The Computer Vision Laboratory was established in the Computer Science Department at the University of Massachusetts in 1974 with the goal of investigating the scientific principles underlying the construction of integrated vision systems and the application of vision to problems of real-world importance.
The emphasis of our work is on vision systems that are capable of functioning flexibly and robustly in complex changing environments.
vis-www.cs.umass.edu   (137 words)

  
 The Multi-Agent Systems Lab
Recent work of the laboratory has also begun to emphasize the use of formal techniques to analyze its experimental prototypes, including work on distributed MDPs and distributed Bayesian networks.
Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Modeling Uncertainty and its Implications to Sophisticated Control in TAEMS Agents.
dis.cs.umass.edu   (337 words)

  
 UMass Amherst: Isenberg School of Management: Home
Tradition of Leadership in Business Education The Isenberg School was one of New England’s first three accredited business schools, has the region’s oldest doctoral program, and has accepted international exchange students for nearly three decades.
The University of Massachusetts Amherst is a nationally competitive research and teaching institution widely known for its commitment to providing first-rate graduate and undergraduate education at affordable prices.
These characteristics provide the catalyst to successful recruiting on the University of Massachusetts Amherst campus."...more
www.isenberg.umass.edu   (311 words)

  
 University of Massachusetts ,Amherst
City: Population:36000 Cost of Living Index is 111.
The University of Massachusetts Amherst is nationally ranked research institution located in a beautiful, culturally rich New England town surrounded by hills, forests, lakes, and meadows
Amherst is located about 90 miles (145 km) from Boston, 170 miles (270 km) from New York City, and 250 miles (400 km) from Montreal, Canada.
university.graduateshotline.com /university16.html   (119 words)

  
 UMassOnline - Accredited Online Degree Programs
Earn your accredited online degree or certificate from one of the nation's top-ranked universities, the University of Massachusetts.
UMassOnline allows you to attend the same high-quality programs and learn from the same world-class faculty as students at the University of Massachusetts' Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth, Lowell or Medical School campuses.
Whether you are a busy professional, balancing work and family, or just interested in learning without the constraints of a campus-based program, UMassOnline enables you to earn a high-quality accredited degree online.
www.umassonline.net   (116 words)

  
 Department of Chemical Engineering-University of Massachusetts Amherst
These elements are used together to analyze and design systems, including chemical processes and products.
At UMass Amherst, undergraduate and graduate students learn how to apply sciences to manufacture this "stuff of life" while building the analytical and innovation skills needed to create new solutions.
Lectures, computer use, problem-solving in and out of class, laboratory experiences, and intense discussion are all parts of this challenging major.
www.ecs.umass.edu /che   (216 words)

  
 Massachusetts Small Business Development Center Network | MSBDC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
A partnership program with the U.S. Small Business Administration and the Massachusetts Department of Business and Technology under cooperative agreement 6-603001-Z-0022-26 through the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Isenberg School of Management.
SBDCs are a program supported by SBA and extended to the public on a non-discriminatory basis.
This site is maintained by the Massachusetts Small Business Development Center Network
msbdc.som.umass.edu   (125 words)

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