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• UMassOnline Wins 2008 Public Sector Technology Leadership Award

  - 2008-10-28

  Other Public Sector Finalists in the Mass Technology Council Award Program included the City of Boston, BostonFIRST, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center UMassOnline Recognized for Leadership and Excellence in Business and Technology SHREWSBURY, Mass. -- UMassOnline Chief Executive Officer David Gray announced today that UMassOnline has been...

  Tags: Boston, education, innovation, Massachusetts, Strategy, technology, University of Massachusetts

• No place like home: passed over for the chancellorship at the University of Massachusetts Boston in 2005, Dr. J. Keith Motley is a classic example of "good things come to those who wait."

  - 2007-11-15

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] BOSTON It seems everyone in Boston knows Dr. J. Keith Motley. The list of schools and civic organizations he helps run or founded himself, like the Roxbury Preparatory Charter School and concerned of Black Men of Massachusetts is extensive. Hearing former student talk about how Motley,...

  Tags: Boston, chancellor, Dr., leader, Leadership, president, University of Massachusetts

• Stephen Decatur: American Naval Hero, 1779-1820.(Book review)

  - 2007-06-22

  Stephen Decatur: American Naval Hero, 1779-1820. By Robert J. Allison. (Amherst and Boston, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005. Pp. viii, 253. $34.95.) Ignored by academic historians for almost seventy years, Stephen Decatur was the subject of two different but outstanding biographies in ...

  Tags: Boston, CAREER, Massachusetts, University of Massachusetts

• LEAP in Massachusetts

  - 2007-03-22

  At an April meeting cosponsored by AAC & U and the Massachusetts Business Roundtable, business leaders and educators met to discuss connections between college learning and the needs of the global economy. On behalf of the National Leadership Council for Liberal Education and America's Promise LEAP, council members Peter Karoff,...

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• Robert Bernstein.(IN MEMORIAM)

  - 2007-01-01

  Robert Bernstein, founder and president of Hope Chemical Corp., died Nov. 21, 2006 in Providence, R.I. He was 79. Bernstein was born in Boston and graduated from the of University of Massachusetts in 1947. He founded Hope Chemical Corp. and the Hope Group in...

  Tags: Boston, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, FINANCE, Providence, University of Massachusetts

• Lucky in love

  - 2005-09-19

  Lucky In Love: The former Maryum Reed became the wife of Sidney Jean Felix during a double ring ceremony at the Concord Baptist Church in Boston. The bride is a graduate of Boston College. She is a kindergarten teacher at Tartt's Day Care Center and Private Kindergarten. The groom, who...

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• Political Waters: The Long, Dirty, Contentious, Incredibly Expensive but Eventually Triumphant History of Boston Harbor-A Unique Environmental Success Story

  - 2005-01-01

  Dolin, Eric Jay. Political Waters: The Long, Dirty, Contentious, Incredibly Expensive but Eventually Triumphant History of Boston Harbor-A Unique Environmental Success Story. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2004. xi + 240 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $34.95. Comprehensive history of the impact of waste management and sewage disposal in Boston, Massachusetts,...

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• Muncie, Ind., University Gets New Leader from Massachusetts.

  - 2004-05-12

  By Barb Berggoetz, The Indianapolis Star Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 12--MUNCIE, Ind. -- Ball State trustees selected a veteran administrator to become the school's new president Tuesday, making Jo Ann M. Gora the first woman to head a public university in...

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• Sodexho Marriott Services' Feeding our Future Program Provides Nearly 6000 Free Lunches to Needy Boston Children This Summer

  - 2000-06-27

  Business Editors BOSTON--BUSINESS WIRE--June 27, 2000 This summer Sodexho Marriott Services, in partnership with the University of Massachusetts Boston and the Greater Boston Food Bank, will provide nearly 6000 free lunches to needy Boston children during its Feeding Our Future program. The program begins on July 10th...

  Tags: Boston, Company, food, Manufacturing, Marriott, University of Massachusetts

• HarvardNet Sponsors Charity Golf Tournament; Event to Benefit University of Massachusetts 'Fund for Hope'

  - 1999-08-27

  BOSTON--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 27, 1999-- HarvardNet, a provider of Internet connectivity and e-business solutions, today announced that it is a sponsor of the Second Annual Patrick J. McEvilly Golf Tournament at Grand View Country Club in Leominster, Massachusetts on Saturday, August 28, 1999. All proceeds from the event will benefit...

  Tags: Boston, Business Wire, DSL, e-business, E-business/E-commerce, INTERNET, Massachusetts, NETWORKING, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telecommuting, University of Massachusetts