Over 1,700 people Thursday and Friday placed their names on a national bone marrow registry.
Monday, May 21, 2012 | last update: 11:20 pm
Independently serving the UMass community since 1890
Members of UMass community register at bone marrow drives
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UMass group to host bone marrow drive today and tomorrow
The UMass DKMS Americas, a branch of a national bone marrow recruitment agency, will be hosting a bone marrow drive today and tomorrow in an effort to try to garner more donators for those in need.
Tags: Ashley Cox, DKMS Americas
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Bike to the Beat concert promotes sustainability
A concert in the Cape Cod Lounge Tuesday night demonstrated the effects of wasteful energy and promoted a more sustainable way of life.
Tags: Bike to the Beat, Eco-Rep, sustainability
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A swab can save a life
On Saturday, Nov. 20, the University of Massachusetts hosted a bone
marrow drive, registering students to become donors.
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UMass launches new grad program in fish engineering
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering has partnered with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service out of Hadley to create a new, one-of-a-kind graduate program in ecohydrology and fish passage engineering this fall.
Tags: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, gradute programs, hydrology, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
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Digging deeper into the Grand Canyon
Michael Williams, a Geosciences professor at the University of Massachusetts, has developed a new “Trail of Time” walking exhibit that will allow visitors to get a real sense of the enormity of the geological time period over which the Canyon has been created by the Colorado River in Arizona.
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UMass launches energy sustainability workshops
Students, faculty and staff gathered at the Mullins Center on Oct. 7 and 8 to attend the year’s kickoff sustainability workshops, brought to the campus by Johnson Controls, Inc.
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James V. Staros appointed provost and vice chancellor
Over the summer, Chancellor Robert Holub announced the appointment of James V. Staros, former dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Stony Brook University in New York, as named provost and senior vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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