Karen Podorefsky commends the recent Boston Globe special regarding the UMass sesquicentennial and notes the Five College system’s importance to the growth of UMass Amherst.
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 | last update: 4:08 am
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Tags: 150 years, Boston Globe, Karen Podorefsky, umass amherst
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Fifteenth annual Freedom Seder unites campus cultural groups
The 15th annual “Freedom Seder” was hosted this year on the eleventh floor of the Campus Center to unite UMass cultural groups
Tags: Campus Center, Freedom Seder
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Protect the key to your health: water
Water is essential to human health, and the protection of water must factor into personal decisions.
Tags: Health & Wellness, Water
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Winter weather withers your health
Karen Podorefsky outlines the various detrimental effects of winter weather.
Tags: Health & Wellness, Mood, weather, winter
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Maintaining healthy nutrition at school
Karen Podorefsky provides solutions for poor nutrition at school.
Tags: diet, Exercise, Healthy, nutrition
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Food Fraud: When the fish tastes fishy
Karen Podorefsky examines misleading labeling in the food industry.
Tags: food fraud, food industry, Karen Podorefsky, misleading labeling
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Evaluating the evaluations
Mid- and end of the semester can only mean one thing: teacher evaluations. But is this really an effective way to measure a teacher’s progress? Columnist Karen Podorefsky evaluates the evaluations.
Tags: college, evaluations, professor evaluations, student, teacher
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Election Day
With Election Day just behind us, we remember why it is so important to vote and educate others about doing so as well.
Tags: Election Day, political involvement, Presidential Election 2012, register to vote, student registration
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