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By Loraine Burger on April 28, 2010
An Avid UMass Basketball fan and devoted professor, Fergus Clydesdale may be one of the most loyal individuals working within our university. A native of Canada, Clydesdale moved to Amherst in the early 1960’s after a tempting offer to study at the University of Massachusetts, and he’s never looked back.
Clydesdale was born in [...]
Posted in Campus Beat, Lead Stories | Tagged food science, professor clydesdale, professor profile, UMass Amherst Professor |
By Sara Afzal on April 7, 2010
Once an 1842 gristmill, the Bookmill in Montague, Mass. brings students in the Pioneer Valley an alternative study spot with shelves of used books and old armchairs in a large mill house alongside the Sawmill River.
Posted in Lead Stories, Living and Arts, Local Beat |
By Samantha Denette on April 7, 2010
The sun has yet to rise and the birds are just beginning to chirp at 6 a.m. when Cathy Keough opens the Wheatberry Bakery and Café. Though the café doesn’t open until 7:30 a.m., she arrives early to get the day’s products baking. Wheatberry is located on Main Street five minutes from Amherst Center, where [...]
Posted in Lead Stories, Local Beat, Uncategorized |
By The Amherst Wire on April 4, 2010
This is a report done for Professor Steve Fox’s Multimedia Journalism class. They produced question and answer videos on a variety of topics.
Posted in Campus Beat, Lead Stories | Tagged GenEd, multimedia, UMass Amherst |
By Loraine Burger on March 9, 2010
The first in a series of profiles of some of the University’s most interesting professors.
Posted in Campus Beat, Lead Stories, Uncategorized |
By Kimya Hedayat-Zadeh on February 17, 2010
Two UMass Amherst students affected by the January 12 earthquake in Port-au-Prince describe Haitian culture and share their thoughts on development in Haiti.
Posted in Campus Beat, Global Beat, Lead Stories | Tagged earthquake, Haiti, January 12 2010, Port-au-Prince, UMass Amherst |
By The Amherst Wire on February 17, 2010
By Michelle Williams / Daily Collegian
Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank visited campus on Tuesday to promote his biography, “Barney Frank: The Story of America’s Only Left-Handed, Gay Jewish Congressman.”
Posted in Campus Beat, Lead Stories |
By Alex Tillotson on February 4, 2010
Review of Northampton’s Mediterranean Amanouz Café.
Posted in Lead Stories, Living and Arts | Tagged Amanouz cafe, cuisine, Mediterranean, northampton |
By The Amherst Wire on January 21, 2010
Yesterday, Amherstwire reporters Richard Caesar and Caitlin Coughlan asked UMass Amherst students one question: What does Martha Coakley’s defeat to Scott Brown mean to Democrats in Massachusetts?
Here are their answers.
Posted in Campus Beat, Lead Stories, Local Beat | Tagged Martha Coakley, Massachusetts, Scott Brown, Senate Election 2010, UMass Amherst |
By Jed Winer on December 6, 2009
A look back at the Halloween UMass Polo team match against the Kemptville Koyotes at Stone Pony Farm in Leverett. The UMass team will be playing again this weekend against Skidmore College.
Posted in Campus Beat, Lead Stories, Local Beat, Polo | Tagged amherstwire, halloween, Jed winer, Kemptville Koyotes, Stone Pony farm, umass, UMass Polo Team |