UMass dean Stephen Crosby named by Gov. Deval Patrick to chair Gaming Commission

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...ide for two Republican governors, as the chairman of the fledgling Massachusetts Gaming Commission. UMass dean Stephen Crosby named by Gov. Deval Patrick to chair Gaming Commission Published: Tuesday, Dece......nd one slots parlor envisioned by the bill. Also seen are, from left, State Rep. Joseph Wagner, D-Chicopee, State Sen. Richard Ross, R-Wrentham, and Kathi-Anne Reinstein, D-Revere. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Governor Deval L. Patrick   University of Massachusetts   Chicopee

UMass officials say agreement with Brazil should be boon for Western Massachusetts farmers

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It means an office at UMass for Brazilian scientists and researchers to come to “to collaborate with us to benefit farmers” in ...... Governor's office photoMassachusetts Gov. Deval L. Patrick, center, joins representatives from the University of Massachusetts and the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) and Embrapa's president Dr. Pedro Ant... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Governor Deval L. Patrick   University of Massachusetts   Springfield

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick unveils education goals

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...o a list provided by the administration, the gateway cities in Massachusetts are Brockton, Chelsea, Chicopee, Everett, Fall River, Fitchburg, Haverhill, Holyoke, Lawrence, Leominster, Lowell, Lynn, Malden, Me......omprise Gov. Deval L. Patrick’s education agenda for his second term. Patrick outlined the goals at UMass Boston on Wednesday morning. The Milton Democrat’s other goals include entitling every child to a... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Governor Deval L. Patrick   University of Massachusetts   Springfield

Holyoke Community College focuses on computer literacy with the new Thomas Gill III Community Technology Center

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...or seeking jobs was computer literacy,” Kohout said. “We heard that many people downtown and in the Chicopee area did not have access to the Internet or low-cost computer classes.” 092111-picknelly-hcc-center......Colleges’ community-based education program that supports the work of students and faculty from the University of Massachusetts, Mount Holyoke, Smith, Amherst and Hampshire colleges who are volunteering with community organizat... (Read Full Article)

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Profiles in Business

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...mple, he noted the commonly held belief that Paul and Gerry D’Amour started the company together in Chicopee. In actuality, Gerry was in the military when Paul decided he had no real future working as a deliv......nother college in Worcester, Assumption, with the caveat that he be allowed to take math courses at UMass instead of work in the family buiness. But upon taking calculus and also getting ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Big Y Foods   MassMutual

2011 Big E Daily Schedule

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...dlers Contest – Coliseum 7 a.m. – FFA Forestry Contest – Forest Park FFA Horse Evaluation Contest – UMass Intercollegiate, FFA, 4-H Dairy Judging Contest – Coliseum 7:30 a.m. – FFA Farm Business Management......f Honor Stage Mardi Gras Parade 10 p.m. – Last Shuttle to West Springfield Hotels Tuesday, Sept. 27 Chicopee Day big27.jpg 8 a.m. – Now Open – Mallary Complex Llama Show – Mallary Arena 4 8:30 a.m. – Now ... (Read Full Article)

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Back to the Drawing Board

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...referring specifically to two current clients at work on new police stations, in Northampton and at UMass Amherst. Back to the Drawing Board Posted on 19 July 2011. Written by: Dan Chase Architects Say an ......periencing the boomtown-like building cycles of yesteryear. But what Edgin, principal architect for Chicopee-based Caolo & Bieniek Associates, was referring to was as much the vagaries of a changing economy a... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Springfield   Amherst

MassChallenge finalist pumped up by autism vest

Explore Home - BostonHerald.com (Jul 7 2011) Entrepreneurship , Life Sciences , Medical Devices

Mullen co-developed the vest’s DeePAD technology, which is licensed from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. It’s based on research started when he was earning a master’s degree in mechanical engi......r $2,000 and comes in three sizes, is fabricated by medical device manufacturer Dielectrics Inc. in Chicopee. It has a removable hand pump that allows the child, his parent, occupational therapist or other ca... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Springfield   Amherst

Profiles in Business

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...fit, if it all works.” Blair has been honing this definition since not long after he graduated from UMass Amherst and took that job with the Division of Employment Security, one that made a lasting impress......se neighborhoods that sparked the kinds of investments he spoke of. Such parks have been created in Chicopee at Westover, and also Agawam, East Longmeadow, Westfield, and other communities, resulting in the c... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Big Y Foods   MassMutual

Well Grounded

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...ing that GZA was responsible for the building’s design. “This branch was originally located in Chicopee, but was moved to Glastonbury, Conn. And now we are here again, so we have come full circle.” C......al Consultants in Springfield from its owners, who were ready to retire. ”It was founded by two UMass professors who grew the business into a 20-person operation. They did site civil engineering which ... (Read Full Article)

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Theraputic Systems of Amherst designs special vest designed to sooth autistic children

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Its developers, Brian Mullen and business partner Chris Leidel, both graduated from UMass in 2009. Their company, Therapeutic Systems, is based at the Amherst Center for Entrepreneurship at......portable hug”to help calm and soothe children with autism and other disorders. Developed in the University of Massachusetts Amherst Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department, the vest is called the Vayu, from the Hin... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Springfield   Amherst

Western Massachusetts census marked by boom and bust

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...xplain. Northampton and Greenfield suffered small population losses, for example. Cities such as Chicopee, Holyoke, Springfield and Westfield enjoyed incremental gains, because they added more Hispanics, a......er-to-bumper for a mile on Route 9 on Friday afternoons in Belchertown, coming from Amherst and the University of Massachusetts, Albertson said. (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Pioneer Valley Planning Commission   Palmer

Western Massachusetts: the next life sciences hub?

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Comment Mentions:   Governor Deval L. Patrick   University of Massachusetts   Massachusetts Life Sciences Center

Editorial: Qteros biofuel startup base beckons in Chicopee

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... startup Qteros Inc. has plenty of room to grow in its new $3.2 million 15,000-square-foot plant in Chicopee. In fact, it has so much room that the company is hoping to enticing other like-minded firms to the......he biofuel industry in Western Massachusetts. The success of Qteros - which sprung from research by University of Massachusetts microbiologist Susan Leschine - and other startups holds promise for the creation of new ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Chicopee   Qteros

Qteros CEO John McCarthy offers space in new Chicopee plant for biofuel start-ups

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...pace enticed to do larger-scale work in other states. Qteros CEO John McCarthy offers space in new Chicopee plant for biofuel start-ups Published: Monday, March 28, 2011, 1:34 AM Boston Business Journal By B......ros lab in Marlborough where plant matter is transformed into ethanol using a microbe discovered by University of Massachusetts researchers in the soil around Quabbin Reservoir. By KYLE ALSPACH Boston Business Journal With the ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Chicopee   Qteros

Springfield, regional unemployment creep up in January

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Social network to employment network?

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A University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth study showed that 57 percent of the Inc. 500, a magazine list of fast-growing companies, ......rowing companies, use Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook, which supplanted the out-of-fashion Myspace. UMass-Dartmouth researchers found that 83 percent of the Inc. 500 use these social media in one form or a... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Springfield   Chicopee

Life sciences research at Pioneer Valley colleges is poised to become leading hub

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...hare 0 Share close Google Buzz Digg Stumble Upon Fark Share Email Print Tom Warning life sciences umass Photo by Carol LollisTom Warnick, works at using apparatus to exclude air from cultures to grow spe......cies such as the Pioneer Valley Life Sciences Institute of Springfield. At the hub of it all is the University of Massachusetts Amherst, known for its excellence in research. Study life sciences - essentially the health ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Massachusetts Life Sciences Center   Smith College

Bad times still good for Pioneer Valley innovation companies

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...ocess relies on an organism, dubbed the Q microbe, found in the soils around Quabbin Reservoir by a University of Massachusetts researcher. It both breaks down materials like switchgrass, sugar cane and other sources of ethanol......eros, which employs about 50 people, plans to open a new 15,000-square-foot facility in Chicopee in the coming months to test out its ethanol production process. The company also intends to licens... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   West Springfield   Springfield

Innovators hold key place in region

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...ry from Solutia in Springfield; • Bacteria that generate their own harnessable electricity from the University of Massachusetts lab of Derek Lovely; • A promising new way to generate electric power from a more efficient wind tu......on of ethanol from cellulosic plant materials and the "Q" microbe being commercialized by Qteros in Chicopee; • And the enhanced renewable power generation and connectivity by the Holyoke Gas & Electric Co. t... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Springfield Technical Community College   Springfield

Profiles In Business

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... opened, I was No. 19 or 23, or something like that.” He would go on to open two more locations, in Chicopee and Springfield, and, along the way, apply many of the lessons he learned in UMass while pursuing a career in finance that never materialized. “My dream was to be an investor, so ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Palmer   Springfield

Defense industry jobs are critical to Western Massachusetts economy but often overlooked

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...R and RICHARD LORD Even in the midst of the worst economic downturn in a generation, Hoppe Tool, of Chicopee has seen its gross sales revenues increase 10 percent since early 2009. Since 2001, Berkshire Indus......ancial services. One sector that we consistently overlook is defense. But a recent report by the University of Massachusetts’ Donahue Institute finds that the defense sector is one of Massachusetts’ leading generators of eco... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Associated Industries of Massachusetts   Chicopee

Some bright spots for local business in a year dominated by unemployment, a struggling housing market and ...

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... recession. 1) In August, Callaway Golf Corp. announced it was laying off 200 to 250 workers at its Chicopee plant before the end of 2011. Production will move to Mexico. The plant, once Spalding’s Top-Flite ......mic development tool will be as proof that Holyoke can take on large-scale high-technology projects UMass is partnering on the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computer Center with the Massachusetts In... (Read Full Article)

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Springfield Technical Community College gets biotechnology designation from Massachusetts Biotechnology Council

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...enetics and the production of biofuels. Qteros, a biofuels company that grew out of research at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and is building a prototype plant in Chicopee, is one example, Dickerman said. He also cited SeahorseBioscience, a Billerica company that makes l... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Massachusetts Biotechnology Council   Springfield Technical Community College