College graduate hiring up, with local grads finding success

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Nicholas P. Wegman, executive director of the Chase Career Center at the University of Massachusetts Isenberg School of Management, said he’s noticed an increase in hiring in just the past five months......ee he won’t officially get until May 20, by securing a job in sales for Alliance Medical Gas in the Springfield Technical Community College Technology Park. He met with Alliance after the company set up a ... (Read Full Article)

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Millbrook Scholars Program provides inner-city Springfield teens skills to succeed in work force

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... to follow an academic path. The three young men currently living in the Sixteen Acres home attend Springfield Technical Community College and plan to attend Western New England University or the University of Massachusetts upon graduation. Adjustment counselors from the area high schools, such as Roberto Christian from R... (Read Full Article)

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

STCC shows would-be entrepreneurs the road for taking their ideas to market

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... Sabato teaches her business administration class, “From Concept to Commercialization,“ at Springfield Technical Community College. Seated are students Edward Fisher and Esmie Spalding. SPRINGFIELD – On the first day of class, D......ship awards ceremony and banquet. Today, Lare continues work on his invention while studying at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. “Students gain a lot from the class,” said Sabato. “They learn what can be possible–tha... (Read Full Article)

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

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...en training workers in the fields of precision machining, healthcare and early childhood education. Springfield Technical Community College is taking the lead in training workers in green technologies through the MassGreen initiative, said......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 ... (Read Full Article)

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Momentum Building

Explore BusinessWest (Jan 31 2012)

One of the main marketing taglines for the Scibelli Enterprise Center at Springfield Technical Community College is ‘Business Building.” This explains both what the facility is — a facility housing small business......usiness and education (she’s in both, technically), Michel, who splits her time between the SEC and UMass Amherst, where she serves as executive director for economic development and regional partnersh... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Holyoke Community College   Springfield Technical Community College

Berkshire Bank Promotes Pioneer Valley VP

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... analyst, portfolio manager and commercial lender. He holds a bachelor's degree in finance from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is active with the American Cancer Society Relay For Life, Make-A-Wish Program and s......ake-A-Wish Program and serves on the boards of the Springfield Riverfront Development Corp. and the Springfield Technical Community College Foundation. Boys BB: Taconic at Drury 1/10/12 Drury boy's basketball team win ... (Read Full Article)

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Springfield's Scibelli Enterprise Center hosts more business

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... (6 photos) SPRINGFIELD – The staff at PSI 91 Inc. located at the Scibelli Enterprise Center in the Springfield Technical Community College Technology Park because they needed office space, a receptionist, Internet connectivity, bus... (Read Full Article)

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UMass receives $20 million grant from National Science Foundation

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...lican Follow 1 Tweet Share close Google Buzz Digg Stumble Upon Fark Reddit Share Email Print 2010 umass logo.jpg AMHERST - The University of Massachusetts Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing has received a five year $20-million grant from the Nati...... spending. Mount Holyoke College is a partner in the grant. Watkins said they are also working with Springfield Technical Community College along with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of ... (Read Full Article)

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The Vision Project

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...national benchmarks to hold themselves accountable for forward motion.” Ira Rubenzahl, president of Springfield Technical Community College, said he’s a strong proponent of the Vision Project, although, like others, he stressed that it wil...... speaks with decades of experience working in the public higher realm, including a lengthy stint at UMass Boston. “But that perspective is way, way out of date. “Over time, public higher education has grow... (Read Full Article)

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Small Business Development Center helps businesses plan and troubleshoot

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...we were supposed to be doing," she said. Rumley's confidence stemmed from her relationship with the University of Massachusetts-based Small Business Development Center in Amherst. For eight months, as she was pulling together ...... in government contracts for the more than 9,000 small businesses it works with. In addition to its UMass headquarters, the Small Business Development Center has a regional office at Springfield Technical Community College and ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Springfield Technical Community College   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......gists in the private sector. The Scibelli Enterprise Center, located in the Technology Park at Springfield Technical Community College and managed in conjunction with UMass-Amherst, is one place that helps these parties to come ... (Read Full Article)

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A Matter of Agglomeration

Explore BusinessWest (Dec 21 2010) Energy

...ntly served as managing director of the Mass. Center for renewable Energy Science and Technology at UMass, started in this newly created post in August. He’s spent the past four months familiarizing himse......igher learning, its existing bases of like companies, facilities like the business incubator at Springfield Technical Community College, and the branding opportunities created by the Knowledge Corridor, said Wright. “We’ve got some gre... (Read Full Article)

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Away in Geneva, the World Wide Web was born on Christmas Day

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Adrian, who now leads UMass’ efforts behind the Massachusetts Green High Speed Computer Center in Holyoke, was with the Nationa......n Fark Share Email Print richardadrion.JPG W. Richards Adrion, professor of computer science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, poses with computer equipment at the university. He remembers working with the early In... (Read Full Article)

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Springfield Technical Community College gets biotechnology designation from Massachusetts Biotechnology Council

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...r, president and scientific director of Microtest Laboratories in Agawam, said he got involved with Springfield Technical Community College in order to provide his company with a work force. He now has about a dozen employees from STCC out......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 ... (Read Full Article)

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

Profiles in Business

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... projects this family business had undertaken — from perhaps its biggest initiative, the complex at UMass Medical School, to one of the most visible in this region, Scibelli Hall on the campus of Springfield Technical Community College. Profiles in Business Posted on 23 November 2010. Building on the Foundation of a Family Business D... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Springfield Technical Community College   MassMutual Center

UMass president Jack Wilson: Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center will "put Holyoke on the map"

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...l will be as proof that Holyoke can take on large-scale high-technology projects and get them done, University of Massachusetts President Jack M. Wilson said Friday morning. UMass president Jack Wilson: Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center will "put Holyoke on t......said the computing center’s impact will be felt regionally. Center backers are already working with Springfield Technical Community College and they plan to expose students from elementary ... (Read Full Article)

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

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... 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......his fiscal year is $8.582 million including $665,758 in stimulus. The budget is down 6.9 percent. • Springfield Technical Community ... (Read Full Article)

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

Hartford-Springfield Partnership celebrates 10 years of the "Knowledge Corridor"

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...edge Corridor” name refers to the 26 colleges and universities, including large universities in the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the University of Connecticut. biz O'Leary.jpg submitted photoCornelius P. "Con" O'L......r with 300 jobs. Blair also pointed to Liberty Mutual’s call center and paralegal operations in the Springfield Technical Community College Technology Park with its 300 jobs. Officials in Connecticut don’t get jealous ... (Read Full Article)

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Experts weigh in on potential economic impact of Holyoke high performance computing center

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...fessor of computer science and executive associate dean for the college of natural sciences at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He said to think of a duel-core home computer. Cores are the part of a computer process......use of the talent pool, because of the high performance computing center,” Kurose said. Kurose said Springfield Technical Community College and Holyoke Community College are working with UMass to secure a $600 ... (Read Full Article)

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Forging Ahead

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...e word to describe what they’re doing with the Scibelli Enterprise Center in the Technology Park at Springfield Technical Community College. Springfield Technical Community College and UMass Amherst have announced a partnership involving the Springfield Incubator in the Scibelli Enterprise... (Read Full Article)

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Colleges extend roles in Springfield incubator

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...make the most of an MBA program [May 26, 2010] MITX finalists get first judgment [May 26, 2010] The University of Massachusetts Amherst and Springfield Technical Community College announced today that they are taking on leadership roles with the Springfield Incubator, with UMass executive Marla Michel being named director of the incubator and a UMass spinoff moving in as a tenant. The colleges said they hope to revitalize and reinvigorate ... (Read Full Article)

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Massachusetts Senate fiscal 2011 budget would slash local aid about 4 percent

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Yankee Candle founder Michael Kittredge, Msnbc host Rachel Maddow and actor Bill Cosby among this year's college commencement speakers

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...ngfield College: May 16, 9:30 a.m., Mass Mutual Center, Alexander Wolff, writer, Sports Illustrated Springfield Technical Community College: June 3, 6:30 p.m., college president Ira H. Rubenzahl University of Massachusetts: May 15, Warren P. McGuirk Alumni Stadium, Sheila C. Bair, chair, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. W... (Read Full Article)

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Massachusetts House snuffs out effort to increase local aid

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