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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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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.