Umass Boston in the News
Fierce recession hits Mass. late, but hard
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Outlet: Boston Herald
You can call 2008 a ``perfect storm'' for Massachusetts residents' pocketbooks.
The state's job market and housing sector have both tanked, while plenty of Massachusetts residents' 401(k) plans are in the dumps.
``We're suffering from the same
UMass health survey to confidentially quiz students on problems
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Outlet: Worcester Telegram & Gazette
WARREN - Probing, personal questions will be posed to high school students at Quaboag Regional Middle-High School, but answering the survey is not mandatory.
"The parents have the option to opt out," said Joanne E. Zawalski, school nurse. Parents
A look at small businesses' plight
Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Outlet: MetroWest Daily News, The
Tom Stewart, who owns Blossoms flower shop in Newton Highlands, pays $1,100 per month for health insurance for himself and his wife, who run the shop.
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The nation's crumbling economy has made it the most difficult time for businesses of all
INE reporters tops in Ethnic News Awards
Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Outlet: IndUS Business Journal
Mark ConnorsTwo reporters received top honors in the first New England Ethnic News Awards competition. Current reporter Mark Connors and former INE writer Julie Masis shared first place in the Local News Reporting category. Only first-place winners
Visiting Nurse Scholar 2008 for Cambridge Health Alliance
Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Outlet: Arlington Advocate, The
The Nurse Scholar Visit has been supported by a grant collaboratively developed by Nursing Education, CHA and The Center for Cancer Support & Education. The grant created cancer support services for Portuguese speakers and created multiple multid
Applications soar at public colleges
Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
Students are applying to the state's public colleges and universities in record numbers, as the nation's financial crisis forces more families to consider less expensive schools.
The new application figures confirm a widely forecast 'flight to pri
Science
Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Outlet: The Independent
The risk of giving birth to babies with genetic defects as a result of marriages between first cousins is no greater than that run by women over 40 who become pregnant, according to two scientists who call for the taboo on first-cousin families to be
Multi-cultural newspaper earns recognition for immigration work
Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Outlet: News-Times, The
DANBURY -- When Brazilian immigrant Celia Bacelar published the first issue of Tribuna in January 2000, her goal was to build a bridge between the Portuguese- and English-speaking members of the community.
'It's an ideal that's being translated in
Library hosts extraordinary discussion
Sat, 13 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Outlet: Beacon Villager, The
On Nov. 18, the Maynard Public Library hosted Pulitzer Prize winner Lloyd Schwartz for A Night with Elizabeth Bishop. As librarian Conrad Miller said, it was an extraordinary reading. Schwartz shared personal stories about his friendship with Elizabe
Author, native has taste for the supernatural
Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Outlet: Concord Journal, The
Relaxing at Starbucks, Amelia Atwater-Rhodes doesnt have fangs. She casts a shadow and is drinking nothing more sanguine than a white mocha latte.
Yet for 10 years, the slim, dark-eyed Framingham resident has been midwife to her own haunted brood
Student Debt Skyrocketing as Higher Education Costs Continue to Climb
Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Outlet: PBS - Online
Higher education costs have increased by 439 percent since 1982, according to a National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education report. NewsHour special correspondent for education John Merrow looks at the rising burden of education debt.
J
A taste for the supernatural
Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Outlet: MetroWest Daily News, The
Relaxing at Starbucks, Amelia Atwater-Rhodes doesn't have fangs. She casts a shadow and is drinking nothing more sanguine than a white mocha latte.
Yet for 10 years, the slim, dark-eyed Framingham resident has been midwife to her own haunted brood
College counselors fill role of parent
Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
Since 19-year-old Roberto Green started his first semester of college in September, the calls and e-mails have come almost weekly. Just checking in to see how he's doing, how classes are going, whether he's running into any roadblocks.
One week, h
Apostle of reconciliation to detail Iraq efforts
Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Outlet: Barnstable Patriot, The
Professor Padraig OMalley will speak Dec. 10 at 4Cs You think you have a heckuva commute?
For Padraig (pronounced poor Rick) OMalley just this past week, the commute was from Iraq to Kosovo, and then to Brussels to receive an international awar
Patrick names new head of Mass. Higher Ed Board
Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
BOSTON --Gov. Deval Patrick has appointed a new chairman of the state Board of Higher Education.
Charles Desmond currently serves as executive vice president of the Trefler Foundation, a nonprofit that provides educational opportunities to Boston'
Report Massachusetts is entering a recession
Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
The Bay State economy is 'falling headlong into a recession,' an economist at the University of Massachusetts at Boston wrote in a report that was issued today.
The report in the Benchmark Bulletin noted: 'The Massachusetts economy grew at an annu
Economy Boosts Applications At State Schools
Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Outlet: WCVB-TV - Online
BOSTON -- The economy has many families re-thinking the college tuition bills they are paying.
NewsCenter 5's Bianca de la Garza reported Wednesday that the days when state schools were considered safety schools may be going away.
Two years at
Downturn paring college dreams
Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
As their parents' investments shrink, today's college-bound high school students are scaling back their fantasies of enrolling at prestigious, expensive schools.
This reality is manifesting itself in different ways: tension in guidance counselors'
Tanking economy brings kids back to state schools
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Outlet: Patriot Ledger, The
Business is booming at state universities and community colleges, as students and their families look for alternatives to pricey private schools.
One year at the states flagship public school, UMass-Amherst, including room and board, costs $18,346
Ted Kennedy's honorary degree from Harvard is latest among a string of accolades for senator
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Outlet: Los Angeles Times - Online
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. With Sen. Edward Kennedy battling a malignant brain cancer, admirers are showering accolades on the liberal lion for his decades of work in the U.S. Senate. The Massachusetts Maritime Academy has announced it will rename its trainin
The best of the (local) web
Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
You want to know what's happening: the singer who's coming, the show that's leaving, the news that's breaking, the gossip that's everywhere, the store that's opening, the restaurant that's closing, the blog everyone's reading. Alas, surfing the Web f
The macho stimulus plan
Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
PRESIDENT-ELECT Barack Obama has convincingly argued for a stimulus package that creates jobs that produce things we desperately need and want. 'We'll put people back to work rebuilding our crumbling roads and bridges, modernizing schools that are fa
Buckled down Public pension plans are better positioned to recover from the global financial market
Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Outlet: Pensions&Investments (Crain's)
Public pension plans are better positioned to recover from the worldwide financial market collapse before other institutions because of their typical "buckle-down" approach of rebalancing regularly, following leading peer funds, and keeping their lon
UMass Boston honors ethnic media outlets
Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Outlet: India Currents
New America Media, News Report, Anthony D. Advincula , Posted: Nov 22, 2008
Editor's note: The best in New England's ethnic news media were honored on Thursday night at the New England Ethnic News Awards (NEENAs), the first journalism competition
A new look at Asian immigrants
Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
A new survey by the University of Massachusetts at Boston's Institute for Asian American Studies attempts to fill what the authors say is a gaping hole in the research on immigrants.'There's been a lot of attention paid to immigration rights and poli
Great Pond yields clues to city's past
Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
It was once one of the largest bodies of water in the now-extinct Dorchester Commons. Centuries later, Great Pond may appear in the spotlight again.
Allen Gontz, a professor of environmental, earth, and ocean sciences at the University of Massachu
A perfect fit for UMass
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
At 6-foot-8, J. Keith Motley is impossible to miss at the front of a room - anywhere in a room. The chancellor of the University of Massachusetts at Boston was in his element Monday morning, at an event touting new partnerships between local colleges
Hub grads come up short in college
Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
About two-thirds of the city's high school graduates in 2000 who enrolled in college have failed to earn degrees, according to a first-of-its-kind study being released today.
The findings represent a major setback for a city school system that mad
He's got balancing act in mind
Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
Professor Michael Milburn is a researcher and scholar, most notably in the areas of political and social psychology, at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. Over his 30 years as a teacher, Milburn has led classes in media analysis, political ps
Investors remain interested in medical device companies
Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Outlet: New England Cable News - Online
(Peter Howe, NECN: Boston, MA) - The economy may be in crisis, but it's not dead -- especially not medical technology. We all want to live, so investors remain eager to find the next hot medical device company.
Hundreds flocked Friday to a Mass. M
Low-Wage Workers Earning $8/Hour Can Be Better off Than at Twice the Pay
Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Outlet: Forbes - Online
A single working parent with two children in Greater Boston earning $16,000 a year, the state's minimum wage, and receiving all the major public support programs available to her can better support her household than she could earning $16 an hour ($3
Massachusetts veterans information
Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Outlet: Brockton Enterprise News
Who is a veteran?
For veterans in Massachusetts, you are a veteran if you received a discharge under honorable conditions and served for at least 90 days of regular active duty, one day of which was during wartime, or you served for 180 days durin
US still a hot destination for Indian students
Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Outlet: The Hindu
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Staff Reporter
VIJAYAWADA: The craze among students for pursuing studies in American universities was evident at D.V. Manor on Tuesday, when city based Ace Sol
Start-ups looking hard for capital, but finding little
Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
For six months, Flex Biomedical Inc.'s chief executive, Sal Braico, has been furiously trying to raise money to support his Brookline life sciences start-up, meeting with as many venture capital firms and angel investors as possible.
But the timin
All walks of life
Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
In the made-for-guys, made-by-guys video gaming industry, women are scarce. So building a company like Harmonix Music Systems, where one in five employees is female, is a real feat.
And it makes a difference in the products. The female characters
WILEY Obama renews immigrant's hopes, dreams
Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Outlet: MetroWest Daily News, The
I watched up close the reaction of Brazilians and Americans at the Old Station Steak House in Framingham, as CNN stamped across the screen 'Obama projected winner' on Tuesday night. Amidst the elated small crowd was Brazilian Antonio Jose (not his re
A peace of their minds
Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
Tom Hachey is a historian and runs the Center for Irish Programs up at Boston College, and he was looking forward to introducing a fellow named Anthony McIntyre to BC students this semester.
McIntyre is a thoughtful guy who spent much of his life
How Abuja Stood Still for Poet, Okigbo's Daughter
Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Outlet: AllAfrica.com
Obiageli Ibrahimat Okigbo, daughter of famous poet, the late Christopher Okigbo (1932-67) was a special guest at the critique reading of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), Abuja Branch.
The date was Thursday, October 9, 2008 at the Shehu
Student loans crimp area colleges' fundraising work
Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Outlet: San Francisco Business Times
Thats because Hague and his wife, Marie, who went to Curry College, together owe about $43,000 in student loans. Now they are thinking about moving in, with their young child, to Maries parents house to save money.
In hindsight, Hague said if he h
Unions bet on gambling at W.Va.'s The Greenbrier
Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Outlet: Examiner.com
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First-time voters energized by presidential race
Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Dorchester Reporter
She would rather vote for Tina Fey than for Sarah Palin, said Erin O'Connell, a UMass-Boston student and first time voter. But she is excited to be able to cast her ballot in the 'most historical' election in her lifetime.
O'Connell is among many
Mass. financial services companies to take a hit
Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
BOSTONEconomic experts predict that the nation's weakening economy will cost financial services companies in Massachusetts 7,200 jobs through the end of 2009.
Gus Faucher, director of macroeconomics at Moody's Economy.com, tells The Boston Globe t
Making the grade in Massachusetts
Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: New England Cable News - Online
(NECN) - Chet Curtis is joined by Paul Grogan, President and CEO of the Boston Foundation to kick off the third annual series of public affairs programming. The topic, State of Education: Making the Grade in Massachusetts.
Over the next eight mont
Philanthropy File UMass eyes philanthropy to lure young professionals
Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal
Seven teams of Emerging Leaders explored whether civic engagement could be the glue to bond peers their age to the Boston region.
Massachusetts lost 300,000 residents between 2000 and 2007, many of them between 25 and 40 years old, said Andrew Sum
Increased job loss may point to a recession
Sat, 25 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: New England Cable News - Online
(Brad Puffer, NECN: Boston, MA) - As consumers cut their spending and corporate profits decline, the pink slips trickle down and the vicious cycle continues. The rate of job layoffs seems to be picking up.
Axcelis Technology in Beverly laid off 20
T to delay bond offer until after election
Sat, 25 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
Concerned that a ballot question to repeal the state income tax could discourage investors, the MBTA will delay a planned $350 million bond offering until after the Nov. 4 election, the T's chief financial officer said yesterday.
The underwriters
Economic signs in Mass. point to a recession
Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
The Massachusetts economy is either already in recession or will be there within the next six months, after economic growth ground nearly to a halt in September, the University of Massachusetts reported yesterday.
The global financial crisis and w
Report Mass. economy can't escape recession
Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: WHDH-TV - Online
BOSTON -- A new forecast from University of Massachusetts economists says that if the state is not already in a recession, it will be within the next six months.
Massachusetts has been outperforming much of the nation over the last year, promptin
Report Massachusetts in Recession
Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
- The global financial crisis is now reverberating at the state level. A new University of Massachusetts report says the less than one percent growth rate in the state economy last month means the state can be officially considered in a recession, an
Russell Senior tax credit offers relief from winter woes
Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Daily News Tribune, The
With winter's cold winds just around the corner and skyrocketing energy costs, it is a trying time for seniors living on fixed incomes. Any savings invested in the stock market are plummeting faster than the thermometer. Seniors need all the help the
Talk of wealth redistribution
Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
SENATOR JOHN McCain keeps telling people that instead of trying to spread the wealth,we should be trying to create wealth. However, the idea that there is necessarily a conflict between economic equality and economic growth has been thoroughly discre
Placebos commonly prescribed, survey says
Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
The 'placebo effect' is one of the more fascinating phenomena blurring the mind-body divide: If you think a pill will help you, it will.
A survey of American internists and rheumatologists reveals that about half of the doctors who responded think
Waltham's Gore Place celebrates Archaeology Month
Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Daily News Tribune, The
Ashley Peles, a graduate student in the historial archaeology program at UMass-Boston, records information taken from a test pit at Gore Place in Waltham Friday,July 18, 2008.
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To celebrate Archaeology Month, historic Gore Place
Students eye cheaper colleges as financial crisis deepens
Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Christian Science Monitor - Online
Nearly 6 in 10 are considering less prestigious schools in order to trim costs, a survey finds.
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Experts paint grim picture of economy
Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Berkshire Eagle
BOSTON Economists warned state policy makers yesterday that the recession facing Massachusetts could impact budgets for the next two to three years, a reality that may require deeper budget cuts, including reductions in local aid, in the years to co
Project Nur Announces 'A Native American History Symposium, Erasing Indians Investigating Accounts a
Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Atlanta Business Chronicle
BOSTON, Oct. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Project Nur is collaborating with the Department of Anthropology and the Native American Student Society ('NASS') at the University of Massachusetts-Boston ('UMass Boston') and the Plimoth Plantation on an
The 2008 Media Matters Writing Conference for New England Secondary Schools to Take Place November 6
Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Forbes - Online
The Boston Globe Foundation and The University of Massachusetts Boston announce the expansion of the annual Media Matters Writing Conference to include a second day devoted to middle school teachers and their students. The first day of the conference
Traveling road show arriving to get residents' stories, history
Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
Pictures stuffed in boxes and photo albums gathering dust in the attic become more than stagnant artifacts during the University of Massachusetts at Boston's 'Mass. Memories Road Show.' They are, instead, part of a personal history of the state. 'It
SPEAK OUT Public breast-feeding Nursing vice president could dry up opposition
Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Patriot Ledger, The
The Legislature recently missed an important opportunity to finalize a bill to provide a fundamental protection to babies and nursing moms in public spaces. For a state that prides itself on world-class medical care and pioneering public health initi
New stimulus package might be next
Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Los Angeles Times - Online
WASHINGTON Amid fresh signs that the nation is in recession -- and yet another jaw-dropping decline in the stock market -- Congress is gearing up to enact a new economic stimulus plan to help ordinary Americans.
But getting quick bipartisan agree
On-the-Job Training
Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Education Week - Online
Urban districts are turning to another model of preparation to get teachers-one run by an outside group that mixes classroom training with practical experience in their own schools.
Each of the past five years, a group of new teachers has been ent
Getting a head start on college
Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
The University of Massachusetts at Boston instructor scribbled algebraic equations on the blackboard at a breakneck pace, a blur of variables and exponents. As the chalk flew, three students in the class took notes just as furiously, filling page aft
Going negative: pathetic, but it works
Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
THE ARTIFACT pictured here carries a political punch still being felt today. The few dark squiggles represent Michael S. Dukakis, the Democratic candidate for president in 1988. What makes the poster relevant 20 years later is its message, conveyed w
Managing the family fleet
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Gloucester Daily Times, The
Allyson Jordan at home in a male-dominated field
Ebb & Flow
Peter K. Prybot
Allyson Jordan has successfully managed the family's 71-foot Theresa & Allyson and the 65-foot Jamie & Ashley the past nine years in what remains a male-
What Country's Experience Can Contribute to Iraq [column]
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: AllAfrica.com
Business Day (Johannesburg)
IF, AFTER generations of conflict and oppression, the people of Iraq find their way to living with each peaceably, there is a chance that SA's story as told by three of its central actors, Cyril Ramaphosa, Roelf Meyer a
Iraq peace process must be international effort, US panel is told
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
WASHINGTON - Members of a team that worked to produce a framework for political reconciliation in Iraq told a congressional subcommittee yesterday that the United States must involve the international community in further peace negotiations and allow
Witnesses to Cambodia, past and present
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe
Regular customers of the Wellesley Bakery & Café on Washington Street know that the business is a family affair.
The Nuon family's cookies, soups, sandwiches and croissants - as well as their smiling faces behind the register - have attracted many
MA Economist Predicts Slow Rebound
Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
- Massachusetts says it has managed to ease its short-term cash flow problems. This, after the state treasury sold $750 million worth of what are called 'revenue anticipation notes' yesterday.
This means that, in order to meet its spending needs n
Retirement accounts have lost $2 trillion _ so far
Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: San Francisco Chronicle - Online
The upheaval that has engulfed financial firms and sent the stock market plummeting is also devastating people's savings, forcing families to hold off on major purchases and even delay retirement, Peter Orszag, the head of the Congressional Budget Of
Amid pageantry, a cultural lesson for participants
Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
LYNN - She swept onto the stage in a glittering silver gown and beehive hairdo, the picture of poise in spike heels. The crowd in Lynn Memorial Auditorium went wild.
There she was - Miss El Salvador Massachusetts.
For one glamorous evening, Mar
Rx for the Mass. tech economy An ounce of prevention
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Mass High Tech
North Atlantic Capital, Kodiak Ventures pour $7M into SaaS [October 2, 2008]
How I See It: The future is bright for smartphones and the mobile web [September 26, 2008]
Inside Growth Strategies: Sales roundtable: Web 2.0, Meet Sales 101 [Septemb
Immigrant Groups Receive $1.8 Million to Create Media about Community Health
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Forbes - Online
A new model for improving the health of immigrants in the United States using media created by immigrants was announced today by New Routes to Community Health, a program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Benton Foundation. Eight diverse
Lumina Foundation Awards $1.4 Million Grant to the Education Commission of the States, UMass {
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal
DENVER, Sept. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today the Education Commission of the States (ECS), in collaboration with the National Access and Remediation Policy Project (NARPP) at the University of Massachusetts Boston, announces receipt of a Lumina
UMass venture development center nears completion
Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Business Journal - Online
Boston > Print Edition > Industries > Health Care - Pharmaceuticals Boston Business Journal - by Jesse Noyes Boston Business Journal
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Expand access to college, Motley urges
Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
University of Massachusetts at Boston Chancellor J. Keith Motley called yesterday for a return to 'the idea of public education as an investment' to reduce social inequality by expanding college access for low-income students.
Speaking at the univ
UMass-Boston joins city retail-card program
Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
The University of Massachusetts Boston and the Boston Main Streets program announced a partnership to promote the Boston Community Change card among the university's more than 75,000 students, faculty and staff, and alumni.
The partnership was ann
Fundraising launched for Kennedy Senate Institute
Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
BOSTON The facility will be located on Columbia Point on a four-acre plot between UMass-Boston and the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum, itself a center for studying the presidency and the administration of the senator's late brother
UMass eyes new buildings
Sat, 09 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Herald - Online
The University of Massachusetts at Boston is pushing ahead with plans to spend up to $300 million to build a new science center and classroom building on its Dorchester campus.
But the university made clear yesterday that its more controversial pl
College families scouring for loans
Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
With tuition bills looming, thousands of Massachusetts students and parents are scrambling to secure college loans amid deep turbulence in the nation's credit markets, but college and university officials are reassuring families they should be able t
Randolph charts new course with UMass students
Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
In just his first month of education classes, Josh Wilber seems an unlikely catalyst to help turn around a troubled school system. But the 32-year-old and a dozen other master's degree students at the University of Massachusetts at Boston are poised
Chancellor wants dorms at UMass-Boston
Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Herald - Online
QUINCY - The chancellor of the University of Massachusetts-Boston says he wants to build dormitories to house 2,000 students at the commuter school.
Keith Motley tells the Patriot Ledger of Quincy that he has a vision for the future of the campus
UMass Boston chancellor hopes to provide housing for 2,000 students
Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: MetroWest Daily News, The
UMass Boston Chancellor Keith Motley of Stoughton
GateHouse News Service
Making it to the lecture hall on time at the University of Massachusetts at Boston is only a T ride away for most of its students.
Imagine if it were closer.
Thats t
UMass Boston chancellor hopes to provide housing for 2,000 students
Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Patriot Ledger, The
Making it to the lecture hall on time at the University of Massachusetts at Boston is only a T ride away for most of its students.
Iraqi Parties, After Meetings in Finland, Agree on Principles to Guide Further Talks
Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: New York Times
After years of vicious fighting among Iraq's fractious groups and some incomplete attempts at reconciliation, a ceremony here on Saturday marked a tiny step forward, at least symbolically.
The event was the result of several meetings in Helsinki,
McGuinness urges Iraq tolearn from N. Ireland's past
Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
BAGHDAD - Martin McGuinness, Northern Ireland's deputy first minister and a former top IRA guerrilla, urged Iraqis yesterday to learn from the experience of his homeland, which suffered decades of sectarian conflict, then found peace.
McGuinness w
Modest UMass prof major force in Iraqi peace deal
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Herald
Professor, peacemaker, penman, publican - Padraig O'Malley is many things to many people.
But today, the 64-year-old UMass-Boston professor is set to cement his status as one of the world's top unsung peace brokers with the announcement of a histo
Feuding Iraqis reach agreement
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
WASHINGTON - Nearly two dozen leaders from Iraq's feuding factions who were brought together under the aegis of a University of Massachusetts at Boston professor are slated to unveil an agreement tomorrow aimed at healing the ethnic and sectarian rif
Program gets techno-generation moving
Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
A gaggle of elementary school girls stomped on pads that lit up to the beat of a dance-remix version of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor. In another room, two girls rode stationary bikes, while the LCD screens before them showed the pair rac
UMass works to boost businesses in Haiti
Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal
Higher Education for Development (HED) has joined the University of Massachusetts Boston with the State University of Haiti National Institute of Administration and Management and International Studies (INAGHEI) to help create better management for H