University Reporter: January, 2000
Research Bulletin Highlights University's Commitment to Intellectual Inquiry
A new campus publication has a lot to say about UMass Boston as a crossroads for education and intellectual inquiry. The 1999 UMass Boston Bulletin of Research and Scholarship is the first of a series scheduled to be published every two years.
The Bulletin organizes, in readable form, extensive information about the scholarly pursuits of our faculty, research staff, and graduate students, from September 1996 to December 1998. This period culminated a decade's "extraordinary growth" in research and scholarship, as Chancellor Penney remarks in her introductory message, observing that between 1988 and 1998 the number of UMass Boston's doctoral programs grew from one to nine, and that external research funding increased from $7.1 million to $17.2 million.