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Describes the course `Drugs in the Nervous System' aimed at getting college students to think critically and creatively about science. Course at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts; Project-based, student-centered approach; Focus on students exploring primary literature; Development of variety of skills for scientific work.

Explores the challenges of implementing an electronic reserves program which extends library services to off-campus distance education students. Case study using the University of Massachusetts-Amherst program; Project's context and history focusing on practicalities, problems and solutions in starting an electronic library reserves service; Issues integral to the service.

This paper presents the results of nondestructive integrity tests (NDTs) and axial static load tests on drilled shafts constructed in varved clay at the National Geotechnical Experimentation Site in Amherst, Mass. The shafts were constructed with built-in defects to study: (1) the effectiveness of conventional NDT methods in detecting construction defects and (2) the effect of defects on the capacity of drilled shafts. Defects included voids and soil inclusions occupying 5–45% of the cross section as well as a soft bottom. Nine organizations participated in a blind defect prediction symposium, using a variety of NDT techniques. Most participants located defects that were larger than 10% of the cross sectional area. However, false positives and inability to locate smaller defects and multiple defects in the same shaft were encountered. Static load tests indicated that (1) minor defects had little or no effect on skin friction; (2) a soft bottom resulted in a 33% reduction in end bearing relative to a sound bottom; and (3) reloading resulted in a 20–30% reduction in the geotechnical capacity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Department of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst offers a unique graduate program. The program is demanding but collegial, with faculty and students working together to produce mutually authored articles, monographs, and books. Many students concentrate their doctoral dissertations on applied topics, that is, social policy and evaluation research. These students are trained in theory and methods of sociology; their graduate training is the same as all other students in the program. Graduates have been well placed in the academy and in other occupational sectors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents proceedings of the Annual meeting of the Phycological Society of America at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, held between June 17-22, 1973. All sessions of the program at which contributed papers were presented are joint sessions of the Phycological Society of America and the Phycological Section of the Botanical Society of America. Various topics were covered in different sessions. Session one was on Taxonomy and Morphology while sessions two was on Physiology and Biochemistry.

Ongoing transformations of the university - from changing working conditions to issues of affordability and access, increasing 'accountability' measures and commodification of academic production - are increasingly referred to as university corporatisation and are unfolding within and concomitant to neoliberal globalisation. In this paper we outline some of these processes as they are occurring at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and explore the limitations and possibilities of a critical response mounted by a number of students and faculty in the Department of Anthropology. Drawing on ethnographic data and interviews with group participants, as well as our own experiences with the group, we describe and assess this project as a means to investigate and respond to neoliberal governance. Through this analysis we problematise conventional discourses and imaginings of university corporatisation and neoliberalism and explore the sometimes contradictory subject positions that complicate our efforts to respond critically to university corporatisation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reflecting on 5 years of experience in an ongoing partnership between the University of Massachusetts and the Pskov region in Russia, this paper analyses the process of introducing Western style planning in a provincial region in Russia at the post-Soviet era. After describing the region, the participants, and some changes undergoing in Russia, the key elements of the project, its accomplishments and some problems encountered are reported. The distinguishing characteristics of this project are its attempt at a unified approach that combines academic, consulting and public policy elements, and its success as a partnership in which Americans and Russians together attempt to find the best way to introduce Western style planning in a country moving from a centralized to a free market economy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Traditionally, eye care services have not always been included in college health services. The awareness of eye care as an integral part of primary health care and the efficaciousness of these services in prepaid group practices is changing this. The purpose of this paper is to share a five year experience in developing a comprehensive eye care program for the university community at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts. Attention is given to the scope of services, mode of practice, staffing and staff responsibilities, utilization of services, quality assessment, consumer surveys, and implication for plan members and other health care providers in the plan. It is hoped that this information will be helpful to those planning health care programs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Human sexuality has been recognized as an important developmental, emotional, and medical concern on the college campus. The Peer Sex Education Program at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst has been developed as a model for the use of trained students in an educational, referral and counseling role. This paper describes the program and outlines the methodology used in the documentation and evaluation of various program aspects. Aspects described include the program's rationale and background, the recruiting process, roles and responsibilities, training and supervision models, community development, and delivery of service. Categories of documentation and evaluation considered include effort, performance, adequacy of performance, efficiency, and process. These are related to consumer acceptance and satisfaction, outcome measures of knowledge, attitude, and behavior, effectiveness of referral and other functions, and effect of program on the peer educators' growth and development. The allocation of energy and resources between program development, service delivery and evaluation needs is highlighted. INSET: Registration of Hogs and Babies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Massachusetts workers have engaged in some of the most important struggles in American labor history. Yet, until recently, there has been no systematic attempt to document the Bay State's labor organizations. The Archives and Manuscripts department of the University of Massachusetts (UM) at Amherst hopes to ensure that the state's more recent labor history does not suffer due to negligence. UM previously had eight volumes of minutes and dues books of the Loom Fixers Association of Fall River, a small, elite craft union in the industry, and a minute book for the Fall River Yarn Finishers Union. But the paucity of labor records reflected both the lack of interest by repositories and the sporadic strength of textile unions until the rise of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. In 1986, the University acquired the records of the New Bedford Joint Board of the Textile Workers Union of America, documenting the resurgence of New England textile unionism from 1940 through its decline in the 1970s. The holdings of UM have begun to provide the raw material for the story of the Bay State's labor history.

Offers the author's thoughts on teaching at two different colleges--Amherst College and Greenfield Community College. Differences in supplies and how they reflect the fundamental differences between a school with the sons and daughters of millionaires and one where many students qualify for public assistance; Other differences.

This article presents the author's views related to lesbians in science. In the year 1979, four women, lesbians in science, had formed a study group. They were students in geology, environmental engineering, forestry, and general science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Science students are notoriously short on time for everything except labs, research reports, and unsolved problems. A unique, microscopic subset of women, lesbians in science is the only class of feminists who will reject a women's studies course for yet another science course and who will pass up a once-a-year women's event to do problem no. 6, one of thirty assigned that semester. The intense preoccupation with itself which science fosters is double-edged. The workload and demands on time require almost a fealty of students, and one must jealously guard the time for feminist reading, lectures, and cultural events. On the other hand, science is a context of learning in which discipline and the ability to focus and organize work, of necessity, and quickly learned.

The article discusses The Amherst Embassy of 1816, John Murray, and China. Topics include the history and cultures of Qing China and Georgian Britain during the period we know as the age of Romanticism; This essay will tentatively consider not just some of the published accounts the embassy generated but also their publication and reception history, especially with regard to the great Romantic-period publishing house of John Murray.

With the ending of the historic practice of town meeting legislature in Amherst, Massachusetts in 2018, this essay studies one practice that had been a source of tension: the deliberative body's foreign policy rhetoric. This essay examines one deliberation on a resolution concerning Nigeria for how participants use presence (Perelman & Olbrechts-Tyteca, 1971) and ventriloquism (Cooren, 2016) to construct a sense of authority for speaking for themselves and for others as democratic agents. It contributes to literature on public meetings and on rhetorical authority. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reports that Eastern Pulp and Paper of Amherst, Massachusetts and its lenders have agreed to hire investment firm Fisher International to auction two mills. Closure of the mills due to lack of funding.

The article announces that Kenneth Cyr and Sandra Geiger in the Textile Science Department at Southeastern Massachusetts University in Amherst, Massachusetts have been named as recipients of 1974-75 scholarship. The scholarship is provided by Rhode Island section of the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists (AATCC). They are described by the department scholarship committee as highly promising students in the area of textile chemistry.

The article profiles Garth Wilkes, an editor of the journal. In the field of morphology and rheology, Wilkes has been well established. After the completion of his PhD with Dick Stein at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts, he joined the Princeton faculty in 1969. He joined the journal in 1979 as an editor for 25 years before becoming a member of the Advisory Board in 2004.

This essay reviews and critically contextualizes a recent group exhibition at University of Massachusetts Amherst. The show was part of a larger program considering the legacy of W. E. B. Du Bois. It featured artists such as Carrie Mae Weems, Julie Mehretu, LaToya Ruby Frazier, and Jefferson Pinder, and continues on to Accra, Ghana in 2014. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the study titled "Can Younger Drivers Be Trained to Scan for Information That Will Reduce Their Risk in Roadway Traffic Scenarios That Are Hard to Identify as Hazardous?" from the researchers from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. It states that the study is aimed to reduce the risk of vehicle crashes for younger drivers. It notes that the study which won the 2010 Liberty Mutual Best Paper Award, is promoting excellence in safety and health research.

The article reports that researchers at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst Materials Research and Engineering Center have released findings which could affect scientific disciplines and applications, from cosmetics and coatings, to micro- and nanoelectronics. The research used a low-power optical microscope to observe a tiny drop of water on thin film as it floats in a Petri dish of water. Scientists discovered that the capillary tension of the drop of water produced a starbust of wrinkles in the film. Moreover, researchers emphasize the importance of understanding the mechanical properties of thin films to their performance and optimization.

The article focuses on the relation between immigrant cultural difference and gender violence against women. It discusses the article of legal scholar Austin Sarat, which showed how communities like Amherst, Massachusetts deal with the world where identity-difference exists and characterized with scenes of dramatic conflict. It mentions that some feminists and battered women's advocates believe that other cultures support domestic violence.

The article presents an update on Library of American Landscape History (LALH) Inc., a nonprofit organization in Amherst, Massachusetts, as of June 2006. The Summer 2006 issue of "View," the journal of LALH, is dedicated to Charles C. McLaughlin, a LALH trustee and founding editor of "The Papers of Frederick Olmsted" who died in September 2005. LALH launched two books in 2005, including "Henry Shaw's Victorian Landscapes." LALH expects to release a book by Robin Carson in the fall of 2007.

This chapter describes how Hampshire College used data from the Wabash Study to understand and improve third-semester persistence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Town meeting deliberation and decision making form a communicative event, the act sequence of which ensures that participants enact a democratic process. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork from 1999 to 2000, documents, interviews, and videotapes and transcripts of meetings, I analyze the Amherst, Massachusetts town meeting. Performances of rhetorical interactions, over time, develop norms for discourse that participants use to make sense of and evaluate conduct. I outline norms for deliberative democracy in a particular instantiation of democracy and show how local democracy draws from, and contributes to, the larger rhetorical-political culture in the United States. This essay contributes to studies of language and social interaction in political settings and addresses (a) the lack of communication scholarship concerning a fundamental part of New England local democracy and (b) deliberative democratic theorists' idealist notions of local democracy. Given the variety in forms of local political systems, opportunities abound for similar studies of other local democracies' ways of speaking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This description of counseling and psychotherapy services at Amherst College begins with our heritage from the "mental hygiene" movement of the nineteenth century, the founding of the first university mental health services and the later development of a counseling center tradition. By tracing the evolution at Amherst, from a brief counseling and assessment office to a psychotherapy service, I hope to illustrate and discuss the factors which support a psychotherapy service, as opposed to other models such as a counseling and assessment service or a triage and referral service. Important questions include staffing, time limits, administrative involvement, the institutional context, acknowledging the proper limits of our authority, the need to be aware of how our values may influence our judgments, and resisting the pressures to reduce or streamline our services. I argue for the value of providing a therapeutic space for college students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information on a study that discussed how current advances in atomic spectroscopy and other instrumentation can be incorporated into an undergraduate environmental chemistry laboratory using a project-based approach. An apple orchard in Amherst, Massachusetts served as the study site for the project. Information is presented on the fieldwork and project findings. The pedagogical achievements of the project are discussed, as well as limitations of the study.

The article presents information about the program called "Professors as Writers" at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts. The objective of the program is to provide a quiet and comfortable working place for faculty to write. This program was started 15 year back to help the faculty members to write more productively. The organizers of the program invite all college teachers to sign up for the dates and times that suit them at the beginning of the semester. The program sets aside structured time and space for the faculty to write.

Describes a joint effort between the Department of Theatre and the School of Nursing at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Designing and evaluating techniques commonly used in theater programs to help doctoral nursing students understand philosophical content as the main purpose of the collaboration; Key differences between the Platonic and Aristotelian ideas of reality embodied in two contrasting games explored by the students.

Studies Phyllopharyngean ciliates and their group I introns by researchers from Amherst, Massachusetts. Examination on the molecular phylogeny of Phyllopharyngea; Analysis on the small subunit ribosomal DNA sequences of the ciliate; Evaluation on the monophyly of the ciliate class and the relationships among subclasses.

Focuses on a course called The Social Construction of Whiteness and Women in the Women's Studies program at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts. Beginnings and growth of the course; Views on teaching whiteness; Topics of the subject; Evaluation of the course and the response of the students; Problems that were encountered.

Examines how faculty and student leaders in the community service project called TEAMS Project at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst challenge college students' assumptions about community service tutoring. Promotion of understandings about stereotypes, hierarchical group dynamics and inequality in schools; Use of interpersonal skills and strategies to build relationships; More.

This article reports on research programs conducted by the University of Massachusetts' Labor Relations and Research Center (LRRC). The extension component of LRRC moved to Boston and was set up as the Institute for Labor Affairs, while the Amherst campus retains some of the expanded academic and research programs. Tim Bornstein and Frank McCullough are working on a book about the National Labor Relations Board. Milton Brooke, research coordinator of the Center, has focused on new methods of facilitating payments in industrial-accident litigation cases and is examining state laws relating to occupational health and safety, as well as how these laws complement the federal statute. Harvey L. Friedman studied the role and effectiveness of central labor bodies in preretirement training.

This article offers news brief related to mammalogy as of April 2006. The American Society of Mammalogists will meet from June 17 to 21, 2006 for its annual meeting at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts. Both Journal of Mammalogy and Mammalian Species will be available online to all American Society of Mammalogists members in 2006.

Focuses on the research campaign assessing the impact of sex discrimination in schools in the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts. History of sexual discrimination against females in schools; Discussion on laws on sexual discrimination of females in schools; Importance of gender equity in schools.

Reports on the inability of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst to achieve a multicultural campus that respects all its students. Testimony by several university students before the Massachusetts Advisory Committee to the US Commission on Civil Rights regarding campus tension; Neglect of student testimonies on campus tensions by administrative and faculty experts; More.

Presents news briefs related to the geospatial technology industry as of November 2004. Merrick & Co.'s signing of a digital orthophotography and mapping contract with the town of Amherst, Massachusetts; Quantum Infotech Inc.'s development of an enterprise-wide geographic information system for nonprofit WellsForLife; Sharp Systems of America's posting of an increase in the number of participants in its 3D Display Developer Program.

Discusses the topics that evolved out of the conference in the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Massachusetts in September 1999, involving the transformation of knowledge and organization in contemporary society. Modes of existence of knowledge-production in universities within countries; Views about institutional transformations within universities; Idea of a university in the present age.