In the Media
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Indian-born Kamal Bawa wins award for sustainability work
Washington, Feb 18 (IANS) Kamal Bawa, an Indian-born professor of biology at the University of Massachusetts Boston, is the 2012 winner of the Gunnerus Sustainability Award, the world's first major international award for work on sustainability.
Bawa will receive the Gunnerus Gold Medal and the award of 1 million Norwegian Kronor (about $190,000) at a ceremony in Trondheim, Norway, the university said citing a Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters (DKNVS) announcement.
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College hockey roundup: Norwich wraps up regular-season title
NORTHFIELD Julie Fortier set the school scoring record and the Norwich University womens hockey team clinched the ECAC East regular-season title, storming out to a four-goal first-period lead and beating Salve Regina 6-0 on Friday afternoon.
Fortier had a goal and two assists as the second-ranked Cadets (21-2-1, 16-0-1 ECAC East) avenged their only league blemish, a 1-1 tie at Salve Regina (10-9-5, 6-7-4) in December. She finished the day with 166 points (87 goals, 79 assists), two more ... -
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NORTHFIELD, Vt. - Over the past month the UMass-Boston Beacons have been one of the hottest teams in New England with a 7-2-1 record in their last 10 games coming into Friday night's game at Kreitzberg Arena.The Beacons also had handed the Norwich men's ice hockey team its first loss of 2011-12 on Jan. 14, which gave the Cadets plenty of motivation heading into the game even though they had already wrapped up their 14th straight ECAC East regular season title the week before.However, No. ... -
Letters to the Editor - 2/17/2012
Civility the goal in diverse nation
Editor: I'm not sure that there is any place on earth as diverse as our nation - the givens are our size, our topography, our many climates and our religious, racial and ethnic identities. Then there are our society-driven differences in economic, social, political and educational status. It's no wonder that we seem "deranged" at times as opposed to being arranged - united.
That diversity trademark is, to a point, our greatest asset - as long as we ... -
School assignment panel members set; meetings on March 10
Mayor Thomas Menino this week unveiled the make-up of the advisory committee that will work with his administration on revamping the city’s school assignment policy.
Menino has promised to set up a “radically different” school assignment policy from the costly and unpredictable one in place now, which divides the city into three assignment zones. School officials estimate that by 2014, busing will cost more than $100 million, up from the current outlay of roughly $80 million. Since 2004, ... -
Mario Van Peebles’ ‘We the Party’ spotlights urban teens
‘We the Party’ cast (L-R): Ben J (New Boyz), Mighty Mike, Quincy Brown, Katarina Garcia, Patrick Cage II and Carlos Olivero (Menudo). (Photograph by Brenda Sisa)
Actor, writer, director and son of the legendary Melvin Van Peebles, Mario Van Peebles has long since forged his own path in the family business.
Van Peebles made his directorial debut with the gangster film “New Jack City” in 1991 that made the character Nino Brown a part of American pop culture. He followed that up with ... -
Gardner councilors seek clarity on mayor’s raise
GARDNER — As the city looks to change its charter, no better reason may be found than the problem of paying the mayor.
If the city charter is followed, and the City Council wants to give Mayor Mark P. Hawke a raise, he won’t get the money until January 2014 and only if he gets re-elected. If state law is followed, the council has until October 2013, three months before the end of the mayor’s current term, to show him the money.
The council’s Finance Committee wants a little more clarity ... -
Boston to kick off school-assignment overhaul, tap two dozen to advisory committee
Article on the formation of an advisory committee that will make recommendations on changing the way the City of Boston assigns students to schools mentions that Miren Uriarte, professor of human services and community studies and senior research associate at the Mauricio Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy, will serve on the committee. -
Local Food and Resilience
The highly productive Kingsbury Farm in Waitsfield, Vermont in mid-August, 2011. Note the tracking PV modules in the background. Photo: Alex Wilson. Click on image to enlarge. In this final installment of my ten-part series on resilient design , I'm taking a look at where our food comes from and how we can achieve more resilient food systems.
The average salad in the U.S. is transported roughly 1,400 miles from farm to table, and here in the Northeast, we get most of our fresh food from ... -
Class Notes: Waltham’s academic achievers
Waltham resident earns scholarship
The Massachusetts Organization of State Engineers and Scientists (M.O.S.E.S.) awarded Waltham resident, Murtala Bagana, husband of member Blessing Dube with the Department of Public Health, the Milton J. Dubinsky Scholarship at its recent monthly meeting. Bagana is attending Brandeis University, working towards his MBA in international business. He also holds a Masters in Public Health from Tulane University and is an MD who specializes in HIV and ...
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