Volume 2
Number 3
November 1997

In This Issue:

• Authors & Artists Exhibit Celebrates Scholarly Pursuits
  Last month, vivid artwork covered the walls of the Walter Grossmann gallery on the fifth floor of the Healey Library -- large canvases with bold colors in oil and mixed media, more subdued and subtle ones in acrylic and photo emulsion.
  
  
• CAS Honors Program at Milestone
  The College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) Honors Program introduced 42 new members at an Oct. 9 reception, bringing the number of CAS Honors Program students to a new high.
  
  
• In Depth With NERCHE's Zelda Gamson
  Few organizations are one-of-a-kind in our diversified nation. The New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE) is one of them.
  
  
• Trotter Institute Hosts Prime Minister of Cape Verde
  During a visit to UMass Boston, Dr. Carlos Veiga, prime minister of the Republic of Cape Verde, assured listeners that the west African island nation is advancing, modernizing and independent of Portugal, its former colonial power.
  
  
• Students Research Marine Life with Harbor Explorations
  On October 21st, 28 ninth graders and their teachers from Medfield High School travelled over an hour to Dorchester Bay for a morning on the research vessel Envirolab III.
  
  
• Conference Examines Racial Attitudes, Housing, Employment Trends
  A survey of more than 1,800 households in the greater Boston area, chronicling what residents think about race and ethnic issues, the economy and their place in it, whey they choose to live and why, attitudes towards new immigrants, and more, has been published.
  
  
• Arts on the Point Update
  Several new developments in the creation of "Arts on the Point" have taken place over the last few weeks.
  
  
• Big Numbers Make for a Great Year
  The UMass Boston First Campaign has completed its first year and has acquired significant gifts from alumni, corporations, foundations, faculty and friends in support of the University.
  
  
• Priest Opposes U.S. Training Ground for South American Armies
  "If you go to prison for the right reasons, it's a sacred place," says Father Roy Bourgeois.
  
  
• Campus Notes
  
  
• Scholarship Deadline
  The deadline for all merit-based scholarship applications is Monday, Nov. 17, 1997.
  
  
• Northern Irish Author Reads from Booker Prize-nominated Novel
  Bernard McLaverty, the Nothern Irish author of the novels Lamb, Cal -- and most recently Grace Notes -- began his reading on Oct. 20 by commenting that the only thing that has changed since he was here for a reading in 1986, is that he now needs to use glasses.
  
  
• Campus Welcomes New Administrators
  We welcome three women who have joined the University administration in the areas of economic development, alumni affairs and enrollment.
  
  
• Professor Studies Birth Defects of Accutane
  A UMass Boston professor is one of only two researchers in the nation studying children exposed to isotretinoin, one of the most potent teratogenic (birth defect-causing) drugs on the market.
  
  
• Conference Spotlights Women in Public Life
  The message was clear to the majority female audience at the John F. Kennedy Library on Oct. 18: Run for office, women!
  
  
• Grant Awards on the Rise
  The fiscal year 1997 totals are tallied for the University's sponsored projects (which includes all grants awarded and received from outside sources).