2008 Woodie Awards
Robert Holub applied to be chancellor of the University of Massachusetts because he saw it as "a campus that wants to move forward." It was the advertisement for the position, he said, that attracted him to the job. "In the first paragraph, it said that the University of Massachusetts Amherst wants to be one of the premier universities in the country," he told students at a meeting yesterday morning.
The Golden Booty Tanning Resort in Amherst is participating in the D-Feat Breast Cancer campaign by asking patrons to donate between one and five dollars to support research, claiming that an increase in vitamin D can result in lower levels of breast cancer.
The Cape Verdean Student Alliance celebrated their 25th annual Cape Verdean Awareness night, "Telling our Story," allowing the organizers to share the history, development and culture of Cape Verde. The event took place Saturday in the Student Union Ballroom at the University of Massachusetts.
The University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center has opened a new rheumatology center at its Memorial Campus. The new center will combine UMass Memorial's existing rheumatology services into one location, situated in Worcester, Mass., on the West Ground.