Gov. Deval Patrick unveils $1.8 billion statewide plan for projects including new student center at Springfield community college

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...er and library at Springfield Technical Community College, $51 million to modernize a science building at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and $10 million to expand high-speed Internet to rural Western Massachu... (Read Full Article)

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

Population in Lower Pioneer Valley expected to fall as people age, according

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...trate, manager of the University of Massachusetts Donahue Institute Population Estimates Program in Hadley. SPRINGFIELD - By 2015 there will likely be more people dying than being born in the Lower Pioneer Valley, cont... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Springfield   Amherst

Downtown Springfield merchants, local leaders praise plans for UMass satellite campus at Tower Square

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...wn, to bring college-aged students down here. It will do a world of good for the downtown. Were very excited. Springfield is on the way back and this is really a big step, Kennedy said. ... (Read Full Article)

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UMass chooses Tower Square as location for Springfield satellite center | masslive.com#incart_river#incart_river#incart_river#incart_river

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...ude academic programs to be offered by the UMass campuses in conjunction with UMassOnline and UMass Amherst's Springfield programs. “Today is a great day for Springfield and the entire UMass system,” Patrick plans to sa... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Domenic J. Sarno   Governor Deval L. Patrick   University of Massachusetts

Titan Roofing Inc. moving headquarters with 34 jobs to Tapley Street in Springfield

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...ve roofed some of those buildings a number of times," Pazmino said. "We did most of the buildings in downtown Springfield." The Tapley Street location is perfectly situated near Interstate 291, he said. He expects to ad... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Domenic J. Sarno   University of Massachusetts   Big Y Foods

Massachusetts employers gloomy in reaction to federal budget woes

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...rvous about the future. "The shenanigans in Washington have a price," said Michael Goodman, professor at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. "Buy injecting uncertainty into the environment, there is a price to be... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Associated Industries of Massachusetts   Springfield

UMass Women in Engineering & Computing Career Day gets high school girls interested in science

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...'s freshman class is 18 percent women and more and more women are exploring the major. Fall said that in the UMass computer science department, 7 percent or just (17) of the undergraduate majors were female in 2007. In... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Raytheon   Springfield

Massachusetts community hospitals eligible for grants as part of state health care reform

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... Springfield, North Adams Medical Center, Baystate Franklin in Greenfield and Baystate Mary Lane in Ware, and UMass Memorial — Wing Memorial in Palmer. Established through the Commonwealth’s landmark cost containment la... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Palmer   Holyoke Medical Center

UMass plan for Springfield to be unveiled in about a month, university president Robert Caret says

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...told reporters Tuesday on a visit to Springfield Technical Community College. SPRINGFIELD - Solid plans for a University of Massachusetts satellite campus in downtown Springfield, plans including a specific location and ... (Read Full Article)

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

Annual UMass bus tour with President Robert Caret rolls into Springfield, Hadley before heading east

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...y and business leaders to highlight the university's impact and commitment to the commonwealth. SPRINGFIELD — University of Massachusetts President Robert L. Caret is once again embarking on a mobile listening tour to he... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Springfield Technical Community College   Springfield

Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts to honor John Gallup

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... graduate faculty at Lesley University in the Creative Arts in Learning Program, and has been the director of UMass' Augusta Savage Gallery since 1991. Her book "NAVIGATORS: African American Musicians, Dancers, and Visua... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Smith College   Greenfield Community College

Editorial: Baystate Health, UMass hospital collaboration healthy move for Western Massachusetts

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...ions of Americans who will seek coverage on so-called insurance exchanges, Baystate Health in Springfield and University of Massachusetts Memorial Hospital Health Care in Worcester said they plan to collaborate on specia... (Read Full Article)

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Baystate Health and UMass Memorial Health Care in Worcester set to collaborate | masslive

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...ealth projects championing better nutrition and combating poor health habits SPRINGFIELD - Baystate Health in Springfield and UMass Memorial Health Care in Worcester plan to collaborate on specialized medical care, resea... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Baystate Health   Springfield

Students from Massachusetts colleges promote STEM fields to high school students in Springfield

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...ology are attending. SPRINGFIELD – Students from Massachusetts community colleges, state universities and the University of Massachusetts are at Springfield’s Central High School today to promote science, technology, eng... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Governor Deval L. Patrick   University of Massachusetts   Westfield State University

UMass professor Lisa Chasan-Taber receives $3.2 million in federal grants

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... participating, she said. Women for the study are recruited through UMass partner Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, she said. In 2007, Chasan-Taber received $2.24 million to study the effects of exercise on pregn... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Baystate Health   Springfield

Springfield Technical Community College wins grant to boost performance of Latino students; colleges in Holyoke, Greenfield and Pittsfield receive funds also

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...sident of Springfield Technical, said the grant is crucial partly because about 61 percent of students in the Springfield public schools district are Hispanic. Also, Hispanics constitute 39 percent of Springfield's estim... (Read Full Article)

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

Business leaders tout sites in contest for UMass satellite campus in downtown Springfield | masslive

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...rd to continue our negotiations to find the right fit for UMass," Katherine Craven, executive director of the UMass Building Authority, said in an e-mail. Gov. Deval Patrick, who has been advocating for a Springfield UM... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Governor Deval L. Patrick   University of Massachusetts   Mohegan Sun

Springfield's Scibelli Enterprise Center gets clean energy grant

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...ed to new, larger quarters in Hadley. SPRINGFIELD — The Scibelli Enterprise Center, business incubator in the Springfield Technology Park, has received $20,000 to foster green-energy businesses. The grant, announced las... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Springfield   Amherst

Feliciano, chariman of the Springfield Redevelopment Authority, Jay Minkarah of DevelopSpringfield and The O’Connell Companies honored for Gateway Cities work.

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... give the luncheon address. Armando Feliciano is a longtime Springfield community leader and chairman of the Springfield Redevelopment Authority. After the 2011 tornado destroyed Feliciano’s home, he strove not only to ... (Read Full Article)

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Western Massachusetts colleges ranked in latest U.S. News & World Report ratings poll

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...ngfield was not published. “We are always delighted when outside groups recognize Springfield College,” said Springfield College Vice President for Academic Affairs Jean Wyld in a statement. “It is affirmation that Spri... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   American International College   University of Massachusetts   Smith College

UMass, Mount Holyoke, Holyoke Community and other local colleges want to be held accountable for cost; just measure them fairly

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... can bring that cost down to about $20,000. Messner said all public colleges in the state, including his and UMass, have been able to keep costs down recently because they have gotten more state money to fill the gaps. ... (Read Full Article)

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

Workforce Competitiveness Trust Fund boosts job-skills programs in Hampden, Franklin and Hampshire counties

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...tomer service representatives a year to staff its call centers, each earning $30,000 a year or more. But the Springfield based financial-services giant has trouble finding people with the right technical, communications... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Holyoke Community College   MassMutual

Newly graduated doctors continue their journey as residents at Baystate Medical, some of them focused on pediatrics

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...absolutely love the area, its people, and the staff at Baystate Children’s Hospital,” Zina said, who attended University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, and who was raised in Ludlow.” It’s my goal to conti... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Baystate Health   Springfield

Three private colleges in Springfield raise concerns about proposed University of Massachusetts satellite campus in downtown

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...proposed. “In their embrace of a potential University of Massachusetts satellite campus, it is our hope that Springfield’s political and civic leadership, as well as that of the University of Massachusetts, do not ignor... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Springfield   Holyoke