UMass Boston in the News
Elected officials to promote Haitian aid
Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500
Outlet: Bay State Banner
Elected officials of Haitian descent have joined together to form a national network to support federal initiatives to assist the impoverished Caribbean nation.
The National Haitian American Elected Officials Network held its inaugural meeting las
Fifth Annual Media Matters Writing Conference to Be Held on November 5th and 6th
Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500
Outlet: AEC NEWSROOM
The fifth annual Media Matters Writing Conference for High School/Middle School Teachers and Students will take place on November 5th (High School) and November 6th (Middle School). More than 900 students and teachers from 60 schools have registered
Mayor Tom Menino cements his legacy
Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500
Outlet: Boston Herald - Online
In fending off his toughest challenge yet, Mayor Thomas M. Menino solidified his legacy last night as a leader who will stay as long as he wants - and who likely will leave on his own terms, in his own time, analysts said.
In electing Menino to an
State committee hears both sides of casino issue
Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: MetroWest Daily News, The
State Sen. Karen Spilka, D-Ashland, presides over a hearing on casino gambling proposals for the Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies at the State House in Boston on Thursday.
MetroWest Daily News
Proponents and opp
State's attempt to reduce tax exemptions eyed warily
Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Wicked Local Medway
10:20 PM EDT Tools: vine BOSTON - This year, the state gave up $20.6 billion in potential revenue through tax exemptions on such endeavors as Bible sales, movie shoots, and even an allowance for coal miners suffering from black lung disease.
Affairs of State: Study finds casino resorts bring 'good jobs'
Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: New England Cable News - Online
2 hours 56 min 2 sec ago
(NECN) - The heated discussion over casino gambling in Massachusetts is certainly a hot topic on Beacon Hill.
As state lawmakers hold public hearings on a wide array of gambling proposals, Dr. Susan Moyer, director of U
History and journalism converge in historical narrative, panel says
Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Daily Free Press
Mark Bowden, contributing editor at Vanity Fair, and Harvard professor Jill Lepore speak on the “Journalism and History: Crossing the Boundaries” panel in the Howard Thurman Center on Wednesday afternoon.
“We all have storytelling genes,” Boston U
Op-ed Stimulus Aids Strong Economic Rebound – U.S. Economy Expands 3.5 Percent
Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: RISMedia
RISMEDIA, October 30, 2009—There is light at the end of the tunnel, and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act got the economic engine closer to that light. The economy grew at an annual inflation-adjusted rate of 3.5% in the third quarter of 200
State's attempt to reduce tax exemptions eyed warily
Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Wicked Local Milford
This year, the state gave up $20.6 billion in potential revenue through tax exemptions on such endeavors as Bible sales, movie shoots, and even an allowance for coal miners suffering from black lung disease.
On Wednesday, lawmakers looking to clo
Labor's Uneven Crisis
Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Alibaba.com
Minorities and men are feeling the strongest pinch from the recession.
The labor crisis has affected all segments of the economy, but minorities and male-dominated industries have taken the brunt of job cuts.
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"It's been
Video: Out Of The Woods?
Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: MSNBC.com
Insight on the road to recovery, with Christian Weller, Center for American Progress; Mark Calabria, Cato; and CNBC's Erin Burnett. (CNBC)
Voting for the final four Boston's dynamic city councilor at-large race
Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Sampan
By Samuel Tsoi
All eight candidates vying for Boston’s four open at-large city councilor seats participated in the MassVote forum on Tuesday, October 13, hosted at UMass-Boston.
Even though September’s preliminary election narrowed the crowded
Ex-Ramos spokeswoman is Arroyo peace adviser
Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: ABS-CBN Interactive
MANILA - President Arroyo on Friday appointed Annabelle Abaya as the new presidential adviser on the peace process, replacing Avelino Razon.
Abaya, a former presidential spokeswoman during the Ramos administration, said she is hopeful and optimist
Video: Talent War
Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: MSNBC.com
Insight on whether companies will suffer a huge talent loss because of government intervention, with George Davis, Egon Zehnder and Christian Weller, Center for American Progress. (CNBC)
Affairs of State: Mass. state budget deficit
Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: New England Cable News - Online
48 min 9 sec ago
(NECN: Boston, Mass.) - Agencies across Massachusetts are bracing for more cuts. Governor Deval Patrick is expected to announce next week who is on the list and how deep those cuts will be.
Stephen Crosby, Dean of UMass-Boston'
Rights of passage
Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Sun Sentinel - Online
Reprinted from The Jerusalem Post.
American Passage The History of Ellis Island. By Vincent J. Cannato. HarperCollins. 487 pages; $17.99.
On Jan. 1, 1892, 15-year-old Annie Moore from County Cork, Ireland, became a footnote in American history.
Urban planning intrinsic in societal issues, speakers say
Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Daily Free Press
Urban planning strategies have a huge impact on various issues, ranging from flood prevention to post-war development to addressing climate change, panelists said at a lecture Tuesday.
Ivy Frances of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Chris
Finance position search narrowed
Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Republican - Online, The
SPRINGFIELD - The committee overseeing the search for a permanent chief administrative and financial officer for the city will interview several candidates, perhaps as soon as early November.
The Edward J. Collins Jr. Center for Public Management
Casino debate revolves around jobs, social impact
Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Lowell Sun - Online
CHELMSFORD -- John Drinkwater, the Massachusetts AFL-CIO's organizing and mobilization coordinator, says legalizing resort-style destination casinos will bring much-needed jobs to the state.
State Sen. Susan Tucker says the ultimate cost of welcom
Mass AG, Senate hopeful keeps robust press unit
Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: NewsOK.com
STEVE LeBLANC Published: October 17, 2009
BOSTON (AP) — When a Newton butcher shop was suspected of flouting the state's Kosher Food Law, Attorney General Martha Coakley's office swooped in to investigate.
Prosecutors alleged that the Gordon an
Diary of an urban hiker
Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
With 38 of the 47 miles of the Boston Harborwalk completed, Globe correspondent Jane Roy Brown takes off on five shoreline hikes, reporting on her encounters from Long Wharf to Dorchester.
Day 1: Long Wharf-North End-Charlestown — Miles logged: 4.
Affairs of State: H1N1 flu preparedness
Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: New England Cable News - Online
7 hours 59 min 4 sec ago
(NECN: Boston, Mass.) - What is the University of Massachusetts doing to deal with the H1N1 flu virus and a the potential of a pandemic?
Joining NECN for a discussion is Mark Preble, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Human
Milton woman role model to be honored by Girl Scouts
Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Wicked Local Milton
Milton resident Jackie Glenn is one of six women role models that will be honored by Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts at the 2009 Leading Women Awards on October 29.
The eighteenth annual event will take place on Thursday, October 29th at
Medical gear start-ups make pitch in Boston
Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: AllBusiness
They came to Columbia Point yesterday bearing bronchoscopes, cardiac pressure monitors, and promises of medical advances that can translate into profitable investments.
More than two dozen medical gear start-ups shared their business plans and ma
Report Sheds Light On Different Immigrant Groups In Boston
Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: wbur.org
Published October 15, 2009 UPDATED 8:03 AM
BOSTON — A new study on Brazilian and Dominican immigrants living in Metro Boston finds much larger populations than previously thought. There are about 64,000 Brazilians and a similar number of Dominican
Snapshot of 2 immigrant groups
Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
A new comparison of two of the region’s largest immigrant groups suggests that Brazilians are more likely to be uninsured and to suffer high levels of stress than immigrants from the Dominican Republic.
Brazilians were also far more likely to be h
American Universities Visiting India For Collaborations
Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: India eNews
More than 30 TOP American universities are visiting India for collaboration with Indian institutions for offering their Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctoral programs in India. They will be participating in the Indo-American Education Summit on academic
Affairs of State: Boston mayoral race
Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: New England Cable News - Online
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Analysis: Deleted E-Mails Make Waves, But May Not Topple Menino
Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: wbur.org
BOSTON — The controversy over thousands of deleted e-mails at City Hall is gaining traction in the Boston mayoral race, but political science professor Paul Watanabe said it won’t be enough to ruin the Mayor Thomas Menino’s re-election bid.
“This
Dedicated Education Units Enrich Clinical Experience for Student Nurses
Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: NurseZone.com
Oct. 6, 2009 - Designed to enrich students clinical experience while expanding nursing school capacity by tasking staff nurses to serve as clinical instructors, the dedicated education unit model is catching on with students, educators and nurses re
First blood Introducing menstrual activism
Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Salon.com
Every woman has one. Not what you're thinking -- that too, yes, but I am referring to a menstruation horror story. A bright blood stain blooming on the back of white jeans, a first period that has the audacity to arrive during gym class or one that c
A bad week for South Africa
Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Moneyweb
Paul Trewhela on the continuing degradation of the state in South Africa.
This was a bad, bad week for South Africa. It began badly and it ended badly, with ominous import for the future.
The perceived danger is that the state -- that great o
Rein in the perks
Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Cape Cod Times
When James Aloisi, lame-duck state transportation secretary, decided in August that the MBTA needed a new director, Dan Grabauskas walked away with more than $327,000: $215,000 in salary for the remaining nine months of his contract, $44,000 for unus
Colleges: UMass-Boston Hall call
Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Herald - Online
The UMass-Boston athletics Hall of Fame banquet will take place on Wednesday, Oct. 14. The seventh annual induction will welcome Brian Leahy (1971, football and wrestling), Ed Miller (’71, basketball), Wayne Starkey (’69, hockey), Leo Dawson (’74, la
It's in the blood
Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Guardian Unlimited
Menstruation is often seen as embarrassing or disgusting and is rarely discussed. But some feminists are determined to break this taboo One morning in 2005, Chella Quint was lying in bed wondering if her period was due. That day she was entering a c
Automatic raises, sick-day pay agencies must eliminate perks
Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
MASSACHUSETTS citizens are rightly outraged when they see quasi-public authorities awarding senior executives automatic raises or bonuses. But that happens at MBTA, the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority, and the Brockton Regional Transit Auth
Noncom deal could set off Boston format war
Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: RBR.com/TVBR.com
WGBH is spending $14M to get new sister WCRB-FM in Boston, a combination which at first blush creates a Classical duopoly. But not so fast: The plan is to turn WGBH-FM into an All News outlet, taking on both commercial and noncommercial stations alre
An entire aisle just for noodles
Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
Area’s first H Mart Korean store debuts
BURLINGTON - More than 20 kinds of the cabbage dish kimchi. An entire aisle just for noodles. A refrigerated section dedicated to the popular rice snack mochi ball.
The region’s first H Mart Korean superm
Kerry asks $20m for Kennedy institute
Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
Fiscal groups criticize military bill earmark
WASHINGTON - A large military spending bill moving through Congress contains a little-noticed outlay for Boston that has nothing to do with national defense: $20 million for an educational institute ho
OMB will create new performance management framework for agencies
Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Government Executive
The Office of Management and Budget is developing a new federal performance management framework, the government's chief performance officer told lawmakers on Thursday.
The approach will incorporate elements from other initiatives, including the B
Affairs of State: Appointment of Paul Kirk
Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: New England Cable News - Online
(NECN) - Governor Deval Patrick has appointed Paul Kirk to succeed the late Senator Ted Kennedy, and to serve until the special election in January.
In today's segment of Affairs of State, Bob Turner, the Director of the Commonwealth Compact at th
Christianity, Voodoo mix conflicts many Haitians
Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: News Press - Online
Damas' alleged acts illustrate threat of 'evil'
Before returning to Collier County on Tuesday, Mesac Damas made comments to the media in Haiti that an evil spirit had caused him to kill his wife and five children, while also noting he was a Christ
Massachusetts Legislature Paves Way for Governor to Appoint Temporary Senator to Succeed Ted Kennedy
Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: WCBS-AM - Online
BOSTON (AP) -- For Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, picking a temporary replacement for the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy isn't just about finding the best person to represent the state in Washington.
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UMass Boston Researcher, Partner Develop Non-Invasive Technique for Lead Testing in Huma
Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: EMedia Wire
New Venture Development Center Fosters Breakthrough by Startups
Boston (Vocus) September 24, 2009 -- The University of Massachusetts Boston's recently opened Venture Development Center (VDC) is facilitating the development of a new, non-invasive,
Local Researchers Unveil Ouchless Lead Test
Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: WCVB-TV - Online
Test Is Non-invasive, Pain-free, Researcher Said
UPDATED: 6:20 pm EDT September 23, 2009
BOSTON -- From toxic toys to lead paint in your home, lead exposure in children has become a major health concern. Up until now, the only way to test for
Stakes High For Kennedy Successor
Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: KHBS-TV - Online
Bill Advances In Mass. Senate
BOSTON -- For Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, picking a temporary replacement for the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy isn't just about finding the best person to represent the state in Washington.
It's about helping
Recalling a capitol murder
Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
Politics has long been called Massachusetts favorite blood sport, but there has been only one reported fatality at the State House despite 211 years of clashes and compromise under Charles Bulfinchs dome. A labor leader named Edward Cohen took a bull
Mayoral race down to wire
Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Herald - Online
Mayor Menino brushes off e-mail-gate scandal as a ‘non-issue’
Mayor Thomas M. Menino dismissed the growing controversy over the mysterious disappearance of city hall e-mails yesterday even as several political observers agreed the scandal has hurt
Candidates make their cases in TV ads
Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Herald - Online
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The candidates vying for the late U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s seat rolled out their first TV ads this week, shelling out big bucks for face time in the
Mass. Beach Cleanup Kicks Off
Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: WCVB-TV - Online
HULL, Mass. -- Massachusetts' statewide beach cleanup program is under way.
State environmental officials, business leaders, and volunteers from nonprofit organizations are gathering at Nantasket State Beach in Hull on Saturday to kick off the 22n
Panel faults perks set by big agencies
Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
A panel created by Governor Deval Patrick to review the pay of heads of the states quasi-public agencies has concluded that their compensation is reasonable, but that perks such as severance pay, guaranteed raises, and bonuses are out of place in the
Report Quasi-public agencies 'excessive'
Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Herald - Online
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Top-heavy quasi-public agencies dish out “excessive severance pay,” bonuses and other perks all while working in the shadows, free from any significant o
A Rainsford isle rarity: Just barge in Saturday
Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
On Saturday, the Volunteers and Friends of the Boston Harbor Islands will escort a group out to Rainsford Island, one of the less-visited islands of the harbor national park. Its magical out there, said Suzanne Gall Marsh, who founded the Volunteers
Affairs of State: Kennedy succession bill
Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: New England Cable News - Online
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City Charter Commission race draws 20
Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Daily News of Newburyport - Online, The
NEWBURYPORT — Just when it seemed there was a level of apathy citywide to run for public office, 20 citizens will vie for nine seats on the city's Charter Commission at the Nov. 3 election.
In November, voters will be asked to both decide on the b
Credit Smarts for students
Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Herald - Online
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The state of Massachusetts and local colleges want students to wise up to the perils of credit cards issued by financial firms eager to make a buck.
The state Office of Consumer Affairs and Business
Global bridge-builder speaks on the Cape
Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
UMass-Boston Professor Padraig O'Malley, who has spent decades helping reconcile divided societies from Ireland to South Africa, will speak about his experiences at a forum Sunday at Cape Cod Community College.
O'Malley has just returned from anot
Massachusetts House OKs Senate Succession Change
Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: CQ Politics
CQ TODAY ONLINE NEWS Sept. 17, 2009 – 11:05 p.m.
Massachusetts is well on its way to having a second senator.
After a long day of often spirited debate, the state House on Thursday passed legislation that would give Gov. Deval Patrick the power
Buyers fight to take over Super 88
Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
NEW YORK - Scores of shoppers browse the aisles of the Hong Kong Supermarket store in Queens, N.Y., inspecting purple Chinese eggplant and tapping melons for ripeness. Others push their carts past live turtles and lobsters in the seafood section.
Elderly drivers may face new test
Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
Massachusetts drivers 75 and older would have to pass a still-undefined mental and physical fitness exam to renew their licenses, under a bill released yesterday by the Legislatures Transportation Committee.
The long-awaited proposal would address
Thanks to stimulus, U. Massachusetts-Boston students to receive $1,100 rebate
Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: U-WIRE
Undergraduate students at University of Massachusetts-Boston can expect $1,100 back from UMB in two installments this year. The rebate resulted from a second round of stimulus money that came to UMass over the summer.
In February the UMass Board o
The state of UMass
Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Milford Daily News
The recession has put a damper on nearly every enterprise, but business is booming at Massachusetts' state colleges and university.
Enrollment at UMass Boston is up 13 percent over last year; at UMass Lowell, it's up 9 percent.
Dormitories are
Affairs of State: Obama's health care speech
Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: New England Cable News - Online
(NECN: Boston, Mass.) - President Barack Obama says he's "open to suggestions and ideas from all quarters" as he works to get a health care reform bill passed. He spoke at a Cabinet meeting, the day after his speech to Congress on the issue.
Joini
GOP flails amid opportunity
Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Herald - Online
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Bay State Republicans are blowing a golden chance to mount serious challenges to weakened Democrats, with no party stars stepping up in the Senate race, one well-known candidate flip-flopping and the G
Senate panel OKs $128 billion for wars
Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Washington Post - Online
WASHINGTON -- With hardly any debate, a powerful Senate committee Thursday approved President Barack Obama's $128 billion request for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan for the budget year beginning in October.
The move came as anxiety i
The Lookout Folk singer in wings for second season of FINCH coffeehouse
Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Newbury Port News
FINCH (Fridays in Newburyport Coffee House) returns from its summer break next week with a hand from Boston-based folk artist Les Sampou. The coffeehouse located within the First Religious Society in Newburyport begins its new season Friday, Sept. 18
Prejudice, pride, and identity
Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
The tony new restaurants near the Broadway T stop may officially be in South Boston, but some have taken to calling that area the South End extension.
Ask folks in parts of Lower Mills where they live, and some will reply Dorchester-Milton. (Its i
City under siege
Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe
A new public library exhibit recalls the 1919 police strike that plunged Boston into chaos
Globe Staff / September 6, 2009
Ninety years ago Wednesday, armed gangs roamed the streets of Boston, stores were looted by brazen scofflaws, and innocen
UMass to aid Kennedy institute with $50M in bonds
Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Herald - Online
The University of Massachusetts Building Authority is preparing to float $50 million in low-interest bonds to finance the Institute for the United States Senate, a nonprofit educational center at UMass-Boston.
At a Sept. 15 public hearing, buildi
Making patriotism personal
Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Wicked Local Plymouth
Hale Foundation to send message of thanks to soldiers, veterans at festival Sunday
GateHouse News Service
PLYMOUTH
A picture might be worth a thousand words, but words and pictures can be priceless.
Video messages filmed during Sunda
Mass. green jobs grants awarded
Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Business Journal - Online
Six state job training institutions will receive grant funding from Massachusetts to develop vocational programs in the cleantech sector.
The grants announced Tuesday total $1 million, bringing the total amount of green job training grants awarded
Who will succeed Kennedy? Speculative list is long
Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Online
BOSTON — For the first time in nearly half a century, Massachusetts voters will be handed ballots for the U.S. Senate seat held by Sen. Edward Kennedy without his name on them.
The long list of potential candidates to replace him in the seat once
Kennedy's Legacy Lives on Through Senate Institute
Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: ABC News - Online
ABC News Kim Berryman reports: Though it has been merely a day since the passing of Senator Edward Kennedy, the legacy built by the long time public servant will continue on through projects that have been years in the making.
Today on ABCs Top Li
Poor, and paying more
Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: St. Paul Pioneer Press - Online
Nearly everything the middle class takes for granted costs more below the poverty line
Washington Post
Updated: 08/21/2009 03:34:20 PM CDT
WASHINGTON — You have to be rich to be poor.
That's what some people who have never lived below the
Onset Weather Stations Selected for UMass Coastal Sensing Network
Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Herald - Online, The
BOURNE, Mass. -- Scientists with the UMass Boston Center for Coastal Environmental Sensing Networks (CESN) have developed and deployed five environmental monitoring buoys in Boston’s Neponset River Watershed for tracking dangerous bacteria levels and
GI Bill Attracts Vets To UMass
Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: wbur.org
BOSTON Its called the Post 9/11 GI Bill and its the first update to veterans education benefits since 1944. The old GI bill didnt cover the full cost of going to school. It didnt provide enough for housing, fees and books. The new benefits will allow
Clerics Call for Removal Challenges Iran Leader
Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: New York Times - Online
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates A group of Iranian clerics has issued a anonymous letter calling Irans supreme leader a dictator and demanding his removal, the latest and perhaps strongest rhetorical attack on him yet in the countrys post-election turmo
Iran Reformists Challenge Supreme Leader
Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Wall Street Journal
...Fatemeh Haghighatjoo, a former reformist lawmaker, reached by phone, who is now a visiting scholar at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. Ms. Haghighatjoo and former lawmaker...
Affairs of State: Camp Shriver at UMass Boston
Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: New England Cable News - Online
(NECN: Boston, Mass.) - Eunice Kennedy Shriver was dedicated and committed to helping people with special needs.
Dr. Gary Siperstein, Director of the Center for Social Development and Education at UMass Boston and a family friend of Eunice Kennedy
Remembering Eunice: Resident helped secure Shriver's legacy
Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Marblehead Reporter - Online
The spirit of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who died early Tuesday morning at the age of 88, is not gone, according to Marblehead resident Gary Siperstein. In fact, given her lifes work, it will only grow, he predicted.
She has been and will continue t
Teddy's Friends Raise Millions
Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Daily Beast, The
Scott Olson / Getty Images The Daily Beast has learned that despite a family vow against "premature eulogies," Kennedy's pals have $88 million in commitments towards a massive monument in his honor.
While the watchword from Hyannis Port is “no pre
Eunice Kennedy Shriver (1921-2009)
Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Examiner.com
Many today are paying tribute to Eunice Kennedy Shriver's life and legacy, most notably as a founder of the now international movement, the Special Olympics.
Ms. Shriver, a champion for the intellectually disabled, began hosting Camp Shriver for s
Nigeria Otiono - Celebrating a Cultural Ambassador
Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: AllAfrica.com
The role of intellectuals in nation building cannot be over emphasised. It has often been argued, that if the Nigerian nation can explore a fragment of its intellectual deposit, it will be ranked on top of global records in terms of peace and develop
Recovery Ahead: It's not too soon to prepare your IT operation for better times ahead
Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: CIO
Anne Agee is living a dual life at work these days. On the one hand, she's facing the prospect of a deep cut in her IT budget. On the other, she's bracing for . Agee, CIO at the University of Massachusetts Boston, is in a position that many IT manag
In the borderland
Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
?Imperial?? appears to be a book about people and places in the California-Mexico borderland, but it might be best described as a bunch of books and a raft of notes, arranged in a way only the author could explain, though he doesn?t. Why would reader
Affairs of State: Clinton's North Korea visit
Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:13:00 -0400
Outlet: New England Cable News - Hartford Bureau
MORE TODAY ON MORE TODAY ON THOSE TWO AMERICAN JOURNALISTS FREED FROM MONTHS OF IMPRISONMENT IN NORTH KOREA. NOW THAT THE TWO WOMEN ARE SAFELY BACK HOME, REUNITED WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS, THE DEBATE HAS STARTED OVER FORMER PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON'S T
Financial czar key to city's success
Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Republican - Online, The
Mayor Domenic J. Sarno says choosing a candidate to fill Springfield's new position of chief administrative and financial officer is "one of the most important hiring decisions in the city's history." No understatement there. For Springfield to avoid
July Job Cuts Expected To Wane
Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Forbes - Online
Unemployment
Carl Gutierrez, 08.06.09, 11:54 AM EDT
Fewer firings mean little to Americans faced with increasing economic hardship.
Wall Street may be encouraged by the waning level of job losses on Friday, but it will mean little to America
ABCD's Coard, antipoverty movement icon, to retire
Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Bay State Boston Banner
Robert Coard (right) and keynote speaker John Glenn exchange a bit of mirth at ABCDs annual awards dinner at the Sheraton Boston Hotel in this 1983 photo. Coard, 82, has been ABCDs president and chief executive officer for more than 40 years. The cha
Fairs see huge crowds when they weather recession
Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: National Public Radio (NPR) - Online
Fun-seekers venturing out to farm fairs, art festivals and other mainstays of the American summer are finding either crowds or cancellation notices this year — and sometimes for the same reason.
Many festivals have met their demise when national s
Fiscal boss list due in October
Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Republican - Online, The
SPRINGFIELD - Candidates to fill the city's new position of chief administrative and financial officer should be presented to Mayor Domenic J. Sarno in October.
Steven F. Bradley, chairman of the committee overseeing the search, said recently the
For Struggling Single Moms, 3-Generation Households Are Better Than 2
Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Medical News Today
Living in a three-generation household can significantly enhance the economic well-being of children, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Southern California and the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Their findings, to a
Voices of the veterans are heard at popular Braintree Elks cookout
Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Patriot Ledger, The
They?re all veterans, men and women, with different ages, experiences and outlooks. And all are trying to rebuild their lives.
The New England Center for Homeless Veterans
17 Court St. in Boston. Call 617-371-1800, e-mail info@mechv.org or visi
Study Says Pensions Reduce Poverty
Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: PlanAdviser
Defined benefit pension income plays a critical role in reducing the risk of poverty and hardship among older Americans, according to a new study.
The study found rates of poverty among older households lacking pension income were about six times
Affairs of State: Baker enters governor's race
Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:16:00 -0400
Outlet: New England Cable News - Hartford Bureau
AS WE MOVE INTO AUGUST THE WEATHER IS FINALLY HEATING UP AND SO IS THE 2010 MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNORS RACE. IN TODAY'S AFFAIRS OF STATE, I'M JOINED BY UMASS POLITICAL SCIENCE PROFESSOR PAUL WATANABE. AFTERNOON PAUL. A PROGRAMMING NOTE: CHARLIE BAKER
New Oversight Proposed for Pension Insurance Agency
Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: U.S. News & World Report
Legislation was introduced today to overhaul the government agency that insures private sector pensions and pays out benefits if the plan fails. The bill proposes new oversight of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) including expanding th
Not Here,
She Said
Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Wall Street Journal
...great city learn how it can once again build great things. Mr. Cannato, who teaches history at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, is the author of “American Passage...
A market on the mend?
Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
The median price of a single-family home in Massachusetts rose above $300,000 last month for the first time since August, according to data released yesterday - one of several signs the Bay State’s real estate market may be on the mend.“I think Bosto
Americans Exhausting Jobless Benefits
Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Forbes - Online
Economy
Carl Gutierrez, 07.29.09, 05:45 PM EDT
The slow recovery and stagnating unemployment levels are leaving fewer options for jobless.
The unemployment rate masks the deterioration in the quality of the labor market, as more Americans ar
Gates, Crowley to share beer Thursday at the White House
Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: New England Cable News - Online
(NECN: Brad Puffer, Cambridge, Mass.) - A case of beer now sits on the front steps of Professor Gates' yellow home in Cambridge, a sign of the so-called 'beer diplomacy' soon to come. Thursday evening, Henry Louis Gates, Cambridge police sergeant Jam
Economic Outlook 07/27/09
Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: WTTG-TV - Online
Updated: Monday, 27 Jul 2009, 8:31 AM EDT
WASHINGTON - Wall Street is showing some signs of coming back from last year's perilous freefall and that's helping to fuel speculation the worst may be behind us.
But don't celebrate just yet.
There
Safe Roads Now
Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: AARP.org
Safe Roads Now – a coalition of more than a dozen elder advocates, medical professionals, law enforcement, academics and others – continues to call for a comprehensive solution to improve road safety that focuses on ability, not age. The group has re
Iranian part of Women's Peace Network
Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
The former Iranian member of Parliament, Fatemeh Haghighatjoo, is a visiting scholar at UMass-Boston in the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy within the McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies. I recounted her work in Iran and her li
Newly appointed president of Kennedy Institute for the Senate pledges support for LGBT community
Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Edge Publications Online
Bay Windows
Peter Meade, the newly appointed president of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, has pledged to continue the senator’s legacy of support for the LGBT community in his new role. The Institute, which is slated
Affairs of State: Gates controversy
Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:16:00 -0400
Outlet: New England Cable News - Hartford Bureau
TODAY, THE REACTION SURROUNDING THE ARREST OF HARVARD SCHOLAR HENRY LOUIS IS GETTING EVEN MORE HEATED ESPECIALLY AFTER COMMENTS MADE LAST NIGHT BE PRESIDENT OBAMA. JOINING US TODAY IS, COLLEEN RICHARDS POWELL DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF COMMONWEALTH COMPACT,
Environmental Sensor Bus(R) Capability for eKo Environmental System Revealed
Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Forbes - Online
BusinessWire - Crossbow Technology, Inc. (www.xbow.com), a leading supplier of wireless sensor technology and cutting-edge environmental monitoring solutions, announced the release of ESB(R) development platforms for the innovative eKo system. The pl
At what age do kids need a fig leaf?
Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Rutland Herald
By JULIE SCELFO The New York Times - Published: July 19, 2009
Alex Nicola, who will be 5 in August, enjoys being naked as frequently as possible at home. "In the morning he gets up and takes his pajamas off, and rather than get dressed right away,
Elderly drivers in fewer accidents than others
Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe
Two weeks ago, an elderly Reading woman died after her 92-year-old husband slammed into her while backing out of a parking spot at West Dennis Yacht Club. A week before, an 84-year-old woman from Malden died when her 83-year-old husband crashed into
Archeologists Search for Iron Workshop in North Iceland
Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Iceland Review Online
A team of archeologists are hoping to unearth an iron workshop at the old turf farm Glaumbaer in Skagafjrdur, northeast Iceland, when the farms oldest lodge is investigated this summer. An ironworker at the medieval market at Gsir in 2007. Photo by
Elders on the edge
Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Dowagiac Daily News
9:08 AM EDT LANSING - How much do Michigan seniors need to meet the real costs of living? How much do public support programs - food, prescription drugs, medical, utility and housing assistance - help seniors meet their rising expenses?
The curren
State jobless rate at 17-year high
Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
Massachusetts employers cut more than 2,000 jobs last month as the state unemployment rate jumped to its highest level in nearly 17 years, the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development reported yesterday.The job losses and rise in unemploym
Affairs of State: Charter School Expansion
Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:17:00 -0400
Outlet: New England Cable News - Hartford Bureau
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NYT: When is it OK for kids to run around naked?
Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: MSNBC.com
Alex Nicola, who will be 5 in August, enjoys being naked as frequently as possible at home. 'In the morning he gets up and takes his pajamas off, and rather than get dressed right away, he walks around naked,' said Dawn Nicola, Alexs mother, a stay-a
New post for Meade
Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe
New post for Meade
Former Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Massachusetts exec Peter Meade has been named president and CEO of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate. Meade, who's currently managing director of PR firm Rasky Baerlein
Are Seniors Being Targeted as Bad Drivers?
Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: U.S. News & World Report
Tougher licensing rules for older drivers are being seriously proposed in Massachusetts following a rash of tragic auto accidents involving older drivers. There is more than a little rush-to-judgment response where senior driving problems are concern
Beth Israel Deaconess-Needham names new VP
Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
(Photo courtesy of Beth Israel Deaconess-Needham)
Globe Correspondent
A Needham native and long-time employee of Needhams Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital has been named the hospitals executive vice president and chief nursing officer, accordin
In exile, an Iranian 'lion' keeps fighting
Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
The “Lion Woman’’ of Iran sits outside her 10th-floor office atop the main library at the University of Massachusetts-Boston campus, chafing with frustration as she talks of the turbulence shaking her homeland.She knows this story all too well: The u
Deep thoughts
Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
1. Be green. Reducing your carbon footprint, conserving water, eating organic food, being vegetarian, and buying nontoxic products can help lessen global warming, which is causing water temperatures to rise, upsetting the oceans’ delicate balance.2.
Crashes Fuel Debate on Rules For Older Drivers
Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Wall Street Journal
...the sole trigger for tougher testing. Elizabeth Dugan, an associate professor of gerontology at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, says elderly drivers are battling “a pitchfork-wielding...
Ex-Iranian official from Cambridge watches changes from afar
Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Cambridge TAB
Dr. Faremeh Haghighatjoo is a former member of the Iranian parliament. Here, she sits for photo at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where she was a fellow, on Monday afternoon, June 6, 2009.
GateHouse News Service
Cambridge
As the U.
Marlborough firm gets federal dollars to help disabled find jobs
Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: MetroWest Daily News, The
A local company is one of five Massachusetts agencies receiving major federal funding to help improve employment opportunities for people with disabilities.
Employment Options Inc., of Brigham Street, could receive up to $500,000 from the federal
Toward Greater Economic Security for Connecticut’s Elders
Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: AARP.org
Connecticut has one of the oldest populations in the country, making the issue of economic security for older adults all the more critical here.
A newly completed research study known as the Connecticut Elder Economic Security Index (Index), along
Compact continues to push Mass. diversity benchmarks
Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Bay State Banner
In 1721, as an outbreak of smallpox caused panic in Boston, an African slave spoke up and helped solve the public health crisis.
Onesimus informed his master, Cotton Mather, the citys most powerful man, that Africans of that era stopped the deadly
Dig reveals Rhode Island ties to slave trade
Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Providence Journal - Online
Kneeling in a hole, archaeologist James Garman pokes through two centuries of soil, trash and treasures. After a few hours of digging, he and other researchers find a tarnished belt buckle from the early 1800s.
We are so close to the 18th century,
Companies aren't jettisoning diversity recruitment, but the down economy is adding a wrinkle
Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: San Francisco Business Times - Online
Boston Business Journal - by Mary K. Pratt Special to the Journal
W. Marc Bernsau
Lila McClain,right, with recruiter Collette Jackson and internal communications manager Tim Morris, said the economic slowdown has prompted American Student Servi
Paul Watanabe Selected for Census Bureau's Asian Advisory Committee
Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: StreetInsider.com
WASHINGTON, July 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Paul Watanabe, director of the Institute for Asian American Studies and associate professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Boston, has been selected by Secretary of Commerce Gary
A Portrait of Ellis Island, and Tabloid Fodder
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: New York Times - Online
PASSAGES Immigrants at Ellis Island awaiting a ferry to the city.
ANYONE with a stake or even a fleeting interest in the overhaul of the nations immigration policies should read Vincent J. Cannatos American Passage: The History of Ellis Island Mr
Affairs of State: The driving dilemma
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: New England Cable News - Online
(NECN) - This week, a state house panel heard testimony on some forty bills proposing limits or retesting for elderly drivers.
The hearing came on the heels of several recent accidents involving older people.
Dr. Elizabeth Dugan joins NECN to t
Bernard top Patrick adviser, as Rubin turns to campaign trail, consulting
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Bedford Minuteman - Online
Arthur Bernard, who joined Gov. Deval Patricks staff last year as a senior adviser and Cabinet liaison after working for former Senate President Robert Travaglini and then the University of Massachusetts, will take over as chief of staff from Doug Ru
Advocacy group: Immigrants help state
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
The Immigrant Learning Center has released a new study on the fiscal impact
of new arrivals.
Town Correspondent
The Malden-based Immigrant Learning Center has released a study claiming that new arrivals help the state economy rather than hur
Captains to command Sail Bostons hours
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Herald - Online
Public viewing hours have been set for the Sail Boston 2009 tall ships event on July 8-13, but specific tour times for the vessels will be up to their captains. ?Ultimately, it?s at the discretion of the captains,? a Sail Boston spokeswoman said.
UMass awards $1M grants to spur R&D
Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Mass High Tech
The University of Massachusetts reports it has given $1 million in research and economic development grants to faculty members at the schools five campuses. The 15 grants range in size from $15,000 to $170,000, and include projects in biofuels resear
Affairs of State: Iran election protests
Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: New England Cable News - Online
15 hours 48 min 57 sec ago
(NECN: Boston, Mass.) - A former member of the Iranian Parliament offers her take on the political situation in Iran.
Dr. Fatemeh Haghighatjoo, visiting scholar at the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy, w
Patrick hints he will sign tax hike
Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
Backs transit, ethics overhauls; proclaims victories on agenda for state
Governor Deval Patrick arrived at a press conference at the State House yesterday to announce he will sign transportation and ethics bills approved by the Legislature. (Steve
By The Numbers: Economic Impact Of Mass. Immigrants
Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: wbur.org
BOSTON Schools, welfare and taxes. Those are the big concerns some people have about immigrants impact on public spending. UMass Boston economist Alan Clayton-Matthews actually tried to quantify these impacts using the most recent census data from 20
Immigrant tax impact assessed in report
Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
But it does not classify legals from illegals
Immigrants pour billions of dollars into state coffers every year in taxes, according to a report to be released tomorrow that promotes immigrants’ contributions but does not offer conclusive evidence
In Iran, Both Sides Seek to Carry Islam's Banner
Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Campus Watch
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, ended his prayer sermon in tears on Friday, invoking the name of a disappeared Shiite prophet to suggest that his government was besieged by forces of evil out to destroy a legitimate Islamic government.
Iranian women take key role in protests
Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: http://www.usatoday.com/
Two women take cover during one of several anti-government protests in Tehran, Iran, on Saturday.
Riot police in Tehran fired tear gas and bullets in the air Wednesday in clashes with a few hundred protesters after Iran's supreme leader declared t
Affairs of State: Start-up businesses
Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: New England Cable News - Online
7 hours 58 min 20 sec ago
(NECN: Boston, Mass.) - In this sour economy, companies have been laying off workers at alarming rates, and sometimes even closing their doors, but it hasn't stopped start-ups.
In today's Affairs of State segment, we t
Elderly say they would ace mandatory driving tests
Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
MILTON - From the window in her office at the Council on Aging, director Mary Ann Sullivan watches the tense debate over elderly driving play out in the parking lot each day. Taking note of every dinged door and jumped curb, each wrong turn and pedal
A world away, calls of fraud echo
Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
CAMBRIDGE - About 100 demonstrators gathered yesterday in Harvard Square to voice their outrage over the results of Iran's presidential race, which they said were fraudulently skewed in favor of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
On Saturday, Iranian
Affairs of State: The Fate of the Globe
Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: New England Cable News - Online
6 hours 21 min 57 sec ago
(NECN: Boston, Mass.) - One important story that still has everyone talking is the fate of The Boston Globe.
The Globe's largest union is pushing for an equity ownership stake in the paper. The New York Times is report
They Come to America
Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Washington Post - Online
AMERICAN PASSAGE
The History of Ellis Island
By Vincent J. Cannato
Harper. 487 pp. $27.99
Ellis Island, through which 12 million immigrants passed between 1892 and 1924, is a museum and tourist attraction now, 'a success,' according t
Affairs of State: Reaction to Obama speech
Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:15:00 -0400
Outlet: New England Cable News - Hartford Bureau
ALTH PLAN MORE YOU. PRESIDENT OBAMA SAID TODAY THE CYCLE OF SUSPICION AND DISCORD BETWEEN AMERICS AND MUSLIMS MUST END. IN A SPEECH AT CAIRO UNIVERSITY, THE PRESIDENT CALLED FOR A NEW BEGINNING, IN A RELATIONSHIP THAT COULD JOINTLY CONFRONT VIOLENT
A plan for success
Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Bay State Banner
The University of Massachusetts-Boston honored a black hero last week with an honorary doctor of science degree. Edwin Moses may not be well-known to the younger generation of African Americans, but they should know his inspiring story.
Moses was
Conflicts of interest bedevil psychiatric drug research
Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: USA Today - Online
Does it matter if most of the experts who are creating definitions of mental disorders, and standards for the best way to treat them, receive money from pharmaceutical companies?
That question is hotly debated in scientific journals, but it isn't
Hardship leads to opportunity, students told
Sat, 30 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
Exhorting graduates at the University of Massachusetts Boston to look beyond the current 'time of crisis' and work for a better future, Senator John F. Kerry called on students to put their youthful idealism toward contemporary priorities such as cli
U.S. Sen. Kerry Delivers UMass Boston 2009 Commencement Address
Sat, 30 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: EMedia Wire
Receives Chancellor's Medal; Joe Kennedy, Edwin Moses also Honored
Boston (Vocus) May 29, 2009 -- today delivered the principal address to 3,065 graduates at the 's 41st commencement ceremonies. Kerry, a decorated war veteran who has represented
Affairs of State: Sotomayor nomination
Fri, 29 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: New England Cable News - Online
8 hours 17 min 46 sec ago
(NECN: Boston, Mass.) - The battle is on between conservative and liberal interest groups to define federal judge Sonia Sotomayor before senators. Sotomayor could be the Supreme Court's first Hispanic. She was nominated b
By aiding veterans, UMass senior helps herself
Fri, 29 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
For more than two years after leaving the Marine Corps, Dominique Powell felt alone and adrift without the regimen of military life. Mired in a deep depression, she told no one, hoping she could grit her way through it like another full-gear training
Clearing a new hurdle
Fri, 29 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
The letter from the college on the harbor arrived at the beginning of April. 'Not too much good news transmits by mail today,' Edwin Moses observes. So he was startled to learn that UMass-Boston was making him an honorary doctor of science. 'I was ex
Kerry urges UMass Boston grads to harness idealism
Fri, 29 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
By Peter Schworm, Globe Staff
Exhorting graduates at the University of Massachusetts at Boston to look beyond the current 'time of crisis' and work for a better future, Senator John Kerry called on students to put their youthful idealism toward su
Diversity seeks a foothold
Tue, 19 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
THE COMMONWEALTH Compact was formed a year ago to assess and promote diversity among the region's leading employers - and to counteract the region's reputation as a frosty place for workers of color and women. The first evaluation will be released to
Affairs of State: Graduating in a down economy
Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: New England Cable News - Online
23 hours 51 min 53 sec ago
(NECN: Boston, Mass.) - Senior year is usually an exciting time for college students, as they prepare for commencement and often the start of new careers. But this year, the tough economy is weighing heavy on many gradua
Faust at UMass Boston: Local research universities power region
Thu, 07 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Harvard University Gazette
The unique collection of research universities, biotech and pharmaceutical firms, and science and engineering startups linked by the MBTA Red Line is an economic powerhouse that is going to pull Massachusetts through the current financial crisis and
UMass-Boston opens business incubator
Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
By the time the University of Massachusetts at Boston officially opens its Venture Development Center this morning, professor Robyn Hannigan hopes to have her laser system unpacked and her lab's mercury analyzer working.
Hannigan is excited by the
Affairs of State: Menino seeks fifth term
Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: New England Cable News - Online
8 hours 30 min 53 sec ago
(NECN: Boston, Mass.) - Boston Mayor Tom Menino says he is the right choice to lead the city through this recession. Last night, he announced that he'll seek a fifth full term as mayor.
Menino has been in office for 16
Foreign visitors seek lessons from Boston's divided past
Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
Robert Lewis Jr., who lived through Boston's court-ordered school busing as a black student at East Boston High School in the mid-1970s, had no trouble summoning memories of those tumultuous days for a busload of out-of-town visitors.'Picture it the
Affairs of State with Steve Crosby
Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:14:00 -0400
Outlet: New England Cable News - Hartford Bureau
ON AFFAIRS OF STATE THIS AFTERNOON, A LOOK AT MASSACHUSETTS BUDGET WOES. THE BILLION DOLLAR BUDGET PROPOSED YESTERDAY BY HOUSE LEADERS INCLUDE STEEP CUTS IN NEARLY EVERY AREA TOUCHED BY STATE GOVERNMENT. IT WOULD SLICE DEEPLY INTO STATE AID TO CITI
Broken English immersion
Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
BOSTON SUFFERS from a garbled approach to education for students with limited English - an approach that is widening achievement gaps at all grade levels and driving students to drop out. A change of course is needed to ensure opportunity for the 24,
Boston students struggle with English-only rule
Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
Students not fluent in English have floundered in Boston schools since voters approved a law change six years ago requiring school districts to teach them all subjects in English rather than their native tongue, according to a report being released t
Affairs of State: Patrick's political troubles
Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: New England Cable News - Online
(NECN) - On 'Affairs of the State' we tackle major political issues from across New England and around the nation. In this segment we are joined by Paul Wantanabe, political science professor at UMass Boston. Our first topic: Massachusetts Governor D
Authors of psychological treatment guidelines often tied to drug companies
Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
Virtually all the psychiatrists who wrote the latest clinical guidelines for how to treat depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia had financial ties to drug companies, according to preliminary findings by Boston-based researchers.
Their st
Kurdish siblings going by the book
Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
The Osman family escaped Kurdish Iraq under the murderous rule of Saddam Hussein, then endured a life of poverty in Pakistan. They arrived in Boston a decade ago, speaking virtually no English, puzzled by the strange ways of their new home.
Now, f
UMass Boston chief leads school's transformation in tough landscape
Mon, 23 Feb 2009 07:29:00 -0500
Outlet: Boston Business Journal
When J. Keith Motley was growing up in Pittsburgh there was a man known simply as "John the Cop" who kept guard over a shopping center where many of the neighborhood kids would hang out or push carts for money. If they got out of line, John would dis
Study Casino jobs benefit Mass. workforce
Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
The gaming industry, particularly the unionized sector of the casino hotel industry, provides good jobs with good wages and benefits for often neglected parts of the workforce such as those without college degrees, women, and people of color.
That
'Persistence rate' shows Boston students do succeed in college
Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0500
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
SHERRYANN HAWKESWORTH'S journey toward a college degree began in 1986, when the sixth-grader at the Woodrow Wilson Middle School in Dorchester enrolled in the Urban Scholars Program at the University of Massachusetts-Boston. After high school, Hawkes
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
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
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
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
Students eye cheaper colleges as financial crisis deepens
Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Christian Science Monitor
Nearly 6 in 10 are considering less prestigious schools in order to trim costs, a survey finds.
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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
UMass-Boston chancellor extolls public education as mobility tool
Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
Globe file photo/Pat Greenhouse Keith Motley, chancellor of UMass-Boston
By Peter Schworm, Globe Staff
University of Massachusetts Boston Chancellor J. Keith Motley called today for a return to 'the idea of public education as an investment' to
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
Kennedy steps up plans for institute at UMass
Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Outlet: Boston Globe - Online
Senator Edward M. Kennedy and several of his closest friends have accelerated plans to build an institute near the John F. Kennedy Library that will be dedicated to research and education about the US Senate and that will use Kennedy's lengthy politi
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
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
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