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• Glenn Tinder, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Massachusetts, is an undervalued treasure.(While We're At It)(Liberty: Rethinking an Imperiled Ideal)(Book review)

  - 2008-04-01

  Glenn Tinder, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Massachusetts, is an undervalued treasure. He has published with some regularity in these pages, and his 1986 book, Political Thinking: The Perennial Questions, is a standard reference deserving of its reputation as a classic. Yet...

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• UMass Online Announces UMass Boston's History Professor Spencer Di Scala Awarded Excellence in Teaching Award

  - 2007-05-09

  SHREWSBURY, Mass. -- UMassOnline, University of Massachusetts' online education division offering more than 1,300 accredited courses within 66 degree and certificate programs, announced UMass Boston's History Professor Spencer M. Di Scala was awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award by the University of Continuing Education Association UCEA at its recent annual...

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• E-mail from our readers

  - 2002-11-01

  LICENSING REVISITED In the exchange of letters in the September 2002 issue of Prism regarding "To License or Not to License," it is instructive to note that all American medical school graduates are required tc pass a national medical licensing examination. Why should engineering graduates be treated any differently? Theodore...

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• MENC: the National Association for Music Education - On The Move - Brief Article

  - 2002-09-26

  DR. WILLIE L. HILL JR., has been elected president of MENC: the National Association for Music Education. Hill is director of the Fine Arts Center and a professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Hill earned a bachelor's from Grambling State University and master's and doctoral degrees from the University...

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• In memoriam: Kandula S.R. Sastry 1935-2001

  - 2002-01-01

  With the passing of Professor Kandula Sastry on November 23, 2001, the SNM lost an influential force in radiation dosimetry and a member of the Editorial Board of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine. Sastry was born in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India, in 1935, to Laksmi Kanth and Balatripura...

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• Bergen Community College - Dr. Jon A.Yasin chosen to attend symposium - Brief Article

  - 2001-11-22

  DR. JON A. YASIN, professor at Bergen Community College in New Jersey, was one of only 10 colleagues from across the globe chosen to attend the symposium "Writing and Dialects of English" at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Yasin earned a bachelor's from California State University at Hayward, master's degrees...

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• Stephen B. Driscoll

  - 2000-06-01

  Stephen B. Driscoll, a professor at The University of Massachusetts at Lowell, has received a 2000 American Society for Testing and Materials ASTM Award of Merit from ASTM Committee D20 on Plastics. Also named an ASTM Fellow the title accompanies the award, Professor Driscoll was cited for "dedicated participation, technical...

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