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Friday | WaterWorld

MA: UMASS student awarded ...

A student at University of Massachusetts in Amherst who is working on ways to improve drinking water quality was chosen as one of four students in New England and 32 nationwide to receive an EPA STAR fellowship ...

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Wed Oct 08, 2008

Today's Chemist At Work

Interactions between Antimicrobial Polynorbornenes and Phospholipid...

Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 120 Governors Drive, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003 Received July 12, 2008 Abstract: Antimicrobial polynorbornenes composed of ...

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Related Topix: UMass Amherst

Mon Oct 06, 2008

WGGB

Movie Shoot Boosts Local Economy

AMHERST, Mass Mel Gibson and company have set up shop in Western Massachusetts. Filming "Edge of Darkness" has been underway in Amherst.

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Sun Oct 05, 2008

WIMN's voices

Job Opening: Tenure track at Amherst on gender and media in Global South

The Amherst College Women's and Gender Studies Department is seeking applications for a rank-open position in Gender and Media in the Global South.

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Sat Oct 04, 2008

Boston Herald

Ralph Nader blasts Barrack Obama, John McCain on war in Iraq, Wall Street bailout

Nader maintained his long-shot campaign persona as a populist gadfly, criticizing Friday's financial bailout package, which was backed by Barack Obama and John McCain, calling it a bag of "freebies and goodies ...

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Activism, John McCain, Ralph Nader, Barack Obama

Thu Oct 02, 2008

MassLive.com

Fund created in Amherst for family of boy, 2, killed in school bus accident

By DIANE LEDERMAN dlederman@repub.com NORTHAMPTON - As the Northwestern District Attorney's office continues to investigate a school bus accident in North Amherst Tuesday in which a 2-year-old boy was killed, a ...

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Related Topix: Northampton, MA, North Amherst, MA

Amherst Bulletin

Around Town: New England Environmental to break ground early next week

New England Environmental Inc. will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for its new headquarters on Research Drive Monday at 10 a.m. The nearly 10,000-square-foot building, approved by the Planning Board in August, ...

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Related Topix: Home Gardening, Home, Libraries

Cw56.com

UMass provost to resign at year's end

University of Massachusetts at Amherst provost Charlena Seymour has announced she'll resign at the end of the school year.

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Wed Oct 01, 2008

MassLive.com

District attorney's office identifies toddler, 2, who was killed by school bus in Amherst

This is a 6:17 p.m. update of a story posted at 10:46 this morning. By FRED CONTRADA fcontrada@repub.com AMHERST - A 2-year-old toddler was struck and killed by a school bus near the intersection of Summer ...

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Tue Sep 30, 2008

Herald & Review

Mass. toddler killed when struck by school bus

AMHERST, Mass. - A 2-year-old boy has been struck and killed by a school bus while waiting at a stop with an older sibling and parent in Amherst.

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MassLive.com

Toddler killed by school bus near intersection of Summer Street and Montague Road in Amherst

This is a 1:28 p.m. update of a story posted at 10:46 this morning. By FRED CONTRADA fcontrada@repub.com AMHERST - A toddler was struck and killed by a school bus near the intersection of Summer Street and ...

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MassLive.com

Child killed by school bus in Amherst

A child was struck and killed by a school bus at the intersection of Montague Road and Summer Street at about 8 a.m. on Tuesday, according to police.

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Mon Sep 29, 2008

MassLive.com

Amherst police find body of 37-year-old Southampton man at top of Bare Mountain

By DIANE LEDERMAN dlederman@repub.com AMHERST - Police said today that they recovered the body of a 37-year-old Southampton man at the top of Bare Mountain Saturday.

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Related Topix: Hadley, MA

Sun Sep 28, 2008

Today's Chemist At Work

Synthesis of Macrocycle Isomers via Metathesis Cyclization and Their...

Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003 tew@mail.pse.umass.edu Received June 10, 2008 Abstract: Novel triangular macrocycle isomers were ...

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Fri Sep 26, 2008

TMCnet

U. Massachusetts: Column: Congress and the economic crisis

UWIRE-09/23/2008-U. Massachusetts: Column: Congress and the economic crisis 2008 Massachusetts Daily Collegian via UWIRE By Scott Harris, Massachusetts Daily Collegian AMHERST, Mass.

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Related Topix: Mortgage, Home

Wed Sep 24, 2008

MassLive.com

Amherst officials to address speeding complaints with Lincoln Avenue are residents

By DIANE LEDERMAN dlederman@repub.com AMHERST - Town officials are scheduled to meet with Lincoln Avenue neighborhood residents next month to discuss tactics for making the area safer.

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Related Topix: Lincoln, MA

Mon Sep 22, 2008

WHDH

UMass officials quash credit-for-campaigning offer

University of Massachusetts officials have quashed efforts by an Amherst campus chaplain to offer two college credits to any student willing to campaign in New Hampshire this fall for Democrat Barack Obama.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama

Sat Sep 20, 2008

The Daily Item

Author, psychologist to speak at Marblehead library

Dr. Paul Powers, management psychologist and author, will tell people how to get ready for retirement Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Abbot Public Library.

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Related Topix: Marblehead, MA, Psychology, Science

Thu Sep 18, 2008

Amherst Bulletin

A brief history of Open Meeting Law complaints in Amherst

Accusations that Amherst officials have violated the Open Meeting and Conflict of Interest laws have been routine in recent years, with occasional findings that the law has been broken.

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Wed Sep 17, 2008

MassLive.com

Former Amherst man says he will plead guilty to importing steroids from China

By STEPHANIE BARRY sbarry@repub.com SPRINGFIELD - Four years after the death of a man led authorities to a stash of steroids in an Amherst apartment, a Western Massachusetts resident has announced that he will ...

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Related Topix: Springfield Metro, Boston, MA

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