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  1. Articles mentioning both Greenfield and University of Massachusetts

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    1. Cooley Dickinson Hospital trustees vote for affiliation with Massachusetts General Hospital; Baystate Health 'extremely disappointed'

      Explore masslive.com (Feb 27 2012) Health Care

      Cooley Dickinson Hospital trustees vote for affiliation with Massachusetts General Hospital; Baystate Health 'extremely disappointed' ...ere Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Lahey Clinic of Burlington, University of Massachusetts Medical Center and Vanguard Health. “We are truly humbled that the leadership of Cooley Dickinson H......ley to keep its Board of Trustees. Baystate's system is vast, with affiliated hospitals in Ware and Greenfield along with Springfield's Baystate Medical Center, and 10 health centers in Springfield alone. Affil... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Baystate Health   Springfield

    2. UMass President Robert Caret asks legislature for increase in state funding

      Explore masslive.com (Feb 23 2012) Education

      UMass President Robert Caret asks legislature for increase in state funding With student debt skyrocketing over the past few years, University of Massachusetts President Robert L. Caret again made his plea for a hike in state funding before members of the sta......te funding before members of the state Legislature's Joint Committee on Ways and Means on Thursday. UMass President Robert Caret asks legislature for increase in state funding Published: Thursday, February... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Governor Deval L. Patrick   University of Massachusetts   Greenfield Community College

    3. Higher education institutions turn out a well-prepared workforce which helps attract business

      Explore masslive.com (Feb 11 2012) Education

      Higher education institutions turn out a well-prepared workforce which helps attract business ...he city, says John Kennedy, vice chancellor for university relations. Students and faculty from the UMass Amherst Design Center in Springfield, launched in the spring of 2010, have been working on such ......ith tracks in management, accounting and health services administration and dual MBA-nursing degree University of Massachusetts: •: Partnership with Scibelli Enterprise Center at Springfield Tech´nical Community College to pro... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   American International College   University of Massachusetts   Holyoke Community College

    4. Railroad developments on track for Valley

      Explore GazetteNET (Jan 1 2012) Transportation

      Railroad developments on track for Valley A nearly $73 million federal project to rehabilitate the Pan Am southern tracks that extend from Greenfield through Northampton into Holyoke is slated for completion in the next few years, with some of its c......tain an Amherst stop, the new rail service would include a loop that would tie together both the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the University of Connecticut in Storrs, Conn., with stops in Palmer and ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   University of Connecticut   Palmer

    5. Patrick administration plans $10.1 billion in capital projects over 5 year period

      Explore masslive.com (Nov 17 2011)

      Patrick administration plans $10.1 billion in capital projects over 5 year period ...enter Construction gallery (8 photos) By MICHAEL NORTON BOSTON - A $152 million science building at UMass Boston, $102 million related to the Big Dig and $45 million to continue construction of a state dat......enovation of the Probate and Family Court in Salem; • $3.2 million to start work on a $60 million Greenfield trial court facility; • $4.2 million to complete a new $86 million Taunton trial court facility; • ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Governor Deval L. Patrick   University of Massachusetts   Greenfield Community College

    6. 12 Massachusetts agricultural groups win $450,000 federal grant to promote locally grown produce

      Explore masslive.com (Nov 9 2011)

      12 Massachusetts agricultural groups win $450,000 federal grant to promote locally grown produce ...elchertown--Staff Photo by Dave Roback--Sara R Cawthon of Amherst picks red delicious apples at the UMass-Amherst Cold Spring Orchards in Belchertown on Monday. Stand Alone feature. DEERFIELD – Community ......ery products. Besides the Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture, other grants include: • The University of Massachusetts at Amherst will get $40,000 to market McIntosh apples in Central and South America; • Franklin Coun... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Amherst   Greenfield

    7. Care Center in Holyoke receives National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award from the White House

      Explore masslive.com (Nov 1 2011) Education

      Care Center in Holyoke receives National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award from the White House ...des GED preparation, The Care Center offers an Introduction to the Humanities in collaboration with Greenfield Community College, a Poetry Project, a Readers and Writers Series and the Clemente Course in the ......topher Couch, Ph.D., who has taught at Smith, Amherst, Hampshire and Mount Holyoke colleges and the University of Massachusetts. Administrator of the course is Bard College in New York, which decides whether to authorize colleg... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Holyoke Community College   Greenfield Community College

    8. Western New England University opens pharmacy college, only one in Western Massachusetts

      Explore masslive.com (Sep 12 2011) Education , Health Care

      Western New England University opens pharmacy college, only one in Western Massachusetts ...ossible,” he said. But before this fall, Harnois, who has a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, would have had to leave the region to continue his pharmacy education. Instead, he’s in......olyoke Medical Center, Mercy Medical Center in Springfield, and Baystate Franklin Medical Center in Greenfield. Western New England has already opened the Western New England College and Big Y Foods Inc ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   University of Connecticut   Big Y Foods

    9. There's some interest in proposed Massachusetts-owned bank but required $2.5 billion investment could cause early withdrawal

      Explore masslive.com (Jun 13 2011) Financial Services

      There's some interest in proposed Massachusetts-owned bank but required $2.5 billion investment could cause early withdrawal Michael S. Tucker, president and CEO of Greenfield Co-Operative Bank, is the only other local representative on the commission. The commission will ho...... this,” said Ben S. Branch, a professor of finance at the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. “Recognizing that Massachusetts and North Dakota are not very similar.” He said prelimi... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   MassDevelopment   Springfield

    10. Massachusetts report shows sharp differences in prices paid to Baystate Medical Center, Cooley Dickinson Hospital and other hospitals

      Explore masslive.com (May 26 2011) Health Care

      Massachusetts report shows sharp differences in prices paid to Baystate Medical Center, Cooley Dickinson Hospital and other hospitals ...aginal deliveries of babies at an average cost of $3,430, while Baystate Franklin Medical Center in Greenfield was paid $590,738 for 114 deliveries at an average cost of $5,274. Baystate Medical Center in Spri......k. It was paid an average of $11,082 for treating 48 heart attacks, compared to $19,059 paid to the University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center in Worcester for 56 heart attacks ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Governor Deval L. Patrick   University of Massachusetts   Baystate Health

    11. Springfield area adds 1,100 jobs

      Explore masslive.com (Apr 20 2011)

      ...ment. It was also 11.3 percent in February, but down from 11.8 percent a year ago in March 2010. In Greenfield, unemployment fell to 7.6 percent from 8.1 percent in February and 9.4 percent a year ago. Amherst'......are not big improvements," said Robert A. Nakosteen, a professor of economics and statistics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst's Isenberg School of Management. Nakosteen ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Springfield   Amherst

    12. PVLSI opens new Breast Cancer Research Center

      Explore Daily Collegian (Apr 11 2011) Life Sciences

      PVLSI opens new Breast Cancer Research Center ...oted to biomedical research, which was established nine years ago through a partnership between the University of Massachusetts and Springfield’s Baystate Medical Center, will receive the grant over a five-year period beginning...... going towards improving and broadening ongoing breast cancer research there, according to a Monday UMass News Office release. According to the release, the funding will in part go towards expanding the In... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Springfield   Greenfield

    13. Western Massachusetts census marked by boom and bust

      Explore masslive.com (Apr 3 2011)

      Western Massachusetts census marked by boom and bust ...a patchwork of population losses and gains that are sometimes difficult to explain. Northampton and Greenfield suffered small population losses, for example. Cities such as Chicopee, Holyoke, Springfield and......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)

      Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Pioneer Valley Planning Commission   Palmer

    14. Springfield, regional unemployment creep up in January

      Explore masslive.com (Mar 8 2011)

      ...uctuations in the economy, said Robert A. Nakosteen, a professor of economics and statistics at the University of Massachusetts’ Isenberg School of Management. Over the year, the Greater Springfield labor market has added 1,000...... percent last month. The unemployment rate for the Amherst region was 6 percent in January 2010. In Greenfield and its surrounding Franklin County towns, the unemployment rate was 8.9 percent in January 2011, u... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Springfield   Amherst

    15. Massachusetts moneymaker Crane & Co looks to biofuel to cut power cost

      Explore masslive.com (Feb 28 2011) Energy

      Massachusetts moneymaker Crane & Co looks to biofuel to cut power cost ...d his company is Springfield-based Western Mass Electric Co.’s second-biggest customer behind the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. And traditional-green energy technologies such as solar panels or wind turbines don’t w......13 and be completed sometime in 2015. But Biomass plants have proven controversial when proposed in Greenfield, Russell and Springfield. Richard K. Sullivan Jr., state secretary of energy and the environment, s... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Springfield   Amherst

    16. Wilson's Department Store remains an institution in downtown Greenfield

      Explore masslive.com (Feb 7 2011) Retail

      Wilson's Department Store remains an institution in downtown Greenfield ...erent and unique,” said Beauregard who started working at Wilson’s in 1970 when she was a senior at Greenfield High School. (She attended the University of Massachusetts where she earned a bachelor’s degree in fashion merchandising.) “And, we do not lose sight... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Springfield   Northampton

    17. Profiles In Business

      Explore BusinessWest (Feb 2 2011)

      Profiles In Business ...e left Colombia for the U.S., “following a girlfriend.” She went to Cornell, and Rosskothen went to UMass Amherst, where he studied business and finance (more on that later) “That was the best I could do,”......ager and worked alongside his future business partner, Perreault. After a stint at Classic Foods in Greenfield as food service manager, he fulfilled an entrepreneurial urge by becoming a franchisee at Boston Ch... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Palmer   Springfield

    18. Springfield unemployment rate increases to 13.4%

      Explore masslive.com (Jan 25 2011)

      ...the whole holiday season,” said Robert A. Nakosteen, a professor of economics and statistics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst’s Isenberg School of Management. Nakosteen said a wider view of the economy shows sa...... December 2010, up from 5 percent in November 2010 but lower than 5.2 percent in December 2009. In Greenfield and its surrounding Franklin County communities, the unemployment rate was 8.1 percent in ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Springfield   Amherst

    19. UMass chancellor Robert Holub warns of deep budget cuts in FY12; all Massachusetts public colleges face similar cuts

      Explore masslive.com (Nov 15 2010) Education

      UMass chancellor Robert Holub warns of deep budget cuts in FY12; all Massachusetts public colleges face similar cuts ... PM Dan Ring, The Republican Dan Ring, The Republican Follow Share this story Story tools sept 2006 umass campus aerial The Republican file photo by John SuchockiThe University of Massachusetts Amherst campus faces a cut of $18 million in its fiscal year 2012 budget, chancellor Robert Holub h......iscal year is $17.452 million including $1.3 million in stimulus. The budget is down 6.9 percent. • Greenfield Community College ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Governor Deval L. Patrick   University of Massachusetts   Holyoke Community College

    20. Springfield unemployment rate drops to 12.5%, 6th-highest in Massachusetts

      Explore masslive.com (Oct 26 2010)

      ...urnaround,” said Robert A. Nakosteen, a professor of economics at the Isenberg School of Management University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Jobless rates Here are the latest unemployment numbers for selected communities in West......nt rate was 5.5 percent, down from 6.6 percent in August and from 6.1 percent in September 2009. In Greenfield and its surrounding towns in Franklin County, unemployment was 7.9 percent in September ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Springfield   Amherst

    21. Hartford Springfield Economic Partnership gets $4.2 million to boost Knowledge Corridor | masslive.com

      Explore masslive.com (Oct 24 2010) Education , Transportation

      Hartford Springfield Economic Partnership gets $4.2 million to boost Knowledge Corridor | masslive.com ...ledge Corridor name refers to the 26 colleges and universities, including large universities in the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the University of Connecticut. 1025_BRENNAN.jpg Timothy W. Brennan According to a st......, Depot Square in Holyoke and the Chicopee bikeway. The Franklin Regional Council of Governments of Greenfield also received $425,000 and the Berkshire Regional Planning Commission has been awarded $590,700 fro... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   University of Connecticut   Pioneer Valley Planning Commission

    22. $85 million in National Science Foundation awards issued to 178 universities, colleges in Massachusetts

      Explore masslive.com (Sep 2 2010) Education

      ...achusetts organizations and schools since March. Here is a list of the most recent area recipients: University of Massachusetts at Amherst: • $2,489,274 for a project entitled “Genomic Structure and Contemporary Evolution of We......g Devices” under the direction of Jonathan Friedman. Social and Environmental Research Institute of Greenfield: • $197,231 for a project, entitled “A communicative approach to understanding the associa... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Smith College   Hampshire College

    23. Development agency boosts farm

      Explore Boston Business Journal (Aug 30 2010)

      ...Project today announced that Barbara and Ronald Weaver, who do business as America Agro Products of Greenfield, have landed the first loan issued under the MassDevelopment/Strolling of the Heifers Small Farm Lo......ica Agro uses the Abbasov Growing System, developed by Dr. Ganisher Abbasov, a PhD candidate at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. The low-maintenance process shortens the growing cycle while still providing quality basil... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   MassDevelopment   Robert L. Culver

    24. Springfield tied with Fall River for 4th-highest unemployment rate in Massachusetts

      Explore masslive.com (Aug 24 2010)

      ...rom 8.4 percent last month and 8 percent a year ago. The rate for Amherst alone was 9.1 percent. In Greenfield and its neighboring towns in Franklin County, the unemployment rate was 9.6 percent in July, up fro......it,” said Robert A. Nakosteen, a professor of economics at the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Rena Kottcamp, economic research director for the ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Springfield   Amherst

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