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12 unusual facts about University of Massachusetts Amherst


BitTyrant

BitTyrant is a result of research projects at University of Washington and University of Massachusetts Amherst, developed and supported by Professors Tom Anderson, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Arun Venkataramani and students Michael Piatek, Jarret Falkner, and Tomas Isdal.

Briana Scurry

Scurry attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst and completed her four-year collegiate career with 37 shutouts in 65 starts and with a career record of 48-13-4 and a 0.56 goals-against-average.

Franklinothrips

Franklin worked at the entomology department of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the 1930s.

Jack Elliott Myers

Myers earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1970.

Joenal Castma

In 1996, he transferred to the University of Massachusetts Amherst, playing on the men’s soccer team in 1996 and 1997.

Kenyon L. Butterfield

He was president of the Rhode Island College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (1903-1906); the Massachusetts Agricultural College (1906-1924), and the Michigan Agricultural College, (later Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, which is now Michigan State University) from 1924 to 1928.

Butterfield Hall at the University of Rhode Island, Butterfield House at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Butterfield Hall of the Brody Complex at Michigan State University are all dedicated in his name.

Lemur Project

The Lemur Project is a collaboration between the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.

Manuel Martin

After retiring from playing, Martin coached, including time as the assistant coach of the University of Massachusetts Amherst women’s soccer team.

Old Chapel

Old Chapel (Amherst, Massachusetts), also known as Old Chapel Library, a 19th-century building on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst

Sapporo Beer Museum

William Clark was a president of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, which had one of the best techniques of beet production in the United States at that time, and he hoped to establish the beet cultivation in Hokkaidō during his stay.

The dose makes the poison

"Regulators must extrapolate results not only from animal toxicity studies, typically from mice and/or rats to humans, but also from the very high doses usually used in animal experiments to the very low doses that are characteristic of human exposure. These two types of extrapolation are steeped in uncertainty," wrote Edward J. Calabrese, Professor of Toxicology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst' School of Public Health in Amherst, MA, USA.


Ashfield, Massachusetts

Ashfield is the birthplace of prominent director Cecil B. DeMille (whose parents were vacationing in the town at the time), Alvan Clark, nineteenth century astronomer and telescope maker, and William S. Clark, member of the Massachusetts Senate and third president of Massachusetts Agricultural College (now UMass Amherst).

CALO

The available technologies were developed by research teams at SRI International, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the University of Rochester, the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Oregon State University, the University of Southern California, and Stanford University.

Carl R. Fellers Award

The award is named after Carl R. Fellers, a food science professor who chaired the food technology department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and when the first Phi Tau Sigma chapter was founded in 1953.

Charles S. Lawrence

He took over the secretary's role from Carl R. Fellers, head of the food technology department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and moved the national offices to its present location in Chicago.

Contemplative education

It has inspired networks of higher-education professionals for the advancement of contemplative education at Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke, Smith College and University of Massachusetts Amherst and in Colorado, with the Rocky Mountain Contemplative Higher Education Network (RMCHEN), which launched in September 2006 with an event hosted by Naropa University; and with the Contemplative Studies Initiative at Brown University.

Deborah Digges

Her death was reported as a suicide following her fatal fall from the top of the bleachers of McGuirk Stadium at the University of Massachusetts.

Eats Media

Special college issues of the magazine are currently being published for Columbia University, George Washington University, University of Miami, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Yale University, Fordham University and Florida International University.

Ferdie Adoboe

In addition to his own camps and programs, Adoboe has served as a soccer and track and field coach at schools including Mt. Holyoke College, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and South Hadley High School (Massachusetts), and in the US Youth Soccer Olympic Development Program.

Gillian Conoley

Conoley holds a BA in Journalism from Southern Methodist University and an MFA from the Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Jade Trini Goring

After high school, she furthered her studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst where she studied under fine arts faculty members Dr. Pearl Primus, Ranjana Watson, Jemzie Delappe, and Mark Harrison.

Jeremy Boissevain

Boissevain graduated for his PhD in 1962 at the London School of Economics and has subsequently taught at the Universities of Montreal, Sussex, Malta, New York (Stony Brook), Massachusetts (Amherst), Columbia University and the Jagiellonian University in Cracow.

John Myrdhin Reynolds

Reynolds has taught History of Religions and Buddhist Studies at Shanti Ashram (South India), at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, at the University of California Santa Cruz and at the College of New Rochelle in New York City.

Kenneth S. Apfel

A graduate of University of Massachusetts Amherst, Northeastern University, and University of Texas at Austin, Apfel started his federal career as a Presidential Management Intern at the United States Department of Labor.

Marilynne Robinson

She has been writer-in-residence or visiting professor at many universities, including the University of Kent, Amherst, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst' MFA Program for Poets and Writers.

Massachusetts Route 116

Route 116 then becomes concurrent with Route 9, heading westward before entering Hadley and turning northward again, passing the western edge of UMass Amherst, passing behind Warren McGuirk Alumni Stadium.

National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics

The Institute, in partnership with the University of Massachusetts Amherst, developed the Large Millimeter Telescope / Gran Telescopio Milimétrico on the Puebla-Veracruz border.

Neil Immerman

Neil Immerman (24 November 1953, Manhasset, New York) is an American theoretical computer scientist, a professor of computer science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Patrick Crowley

A graduate of the Labor Relations and Research Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Crowley is one of many who entered the Labor Movement during the mid-1990s when the AFL-CIO President John Sweeney issued a call to arms for a new generation of Union organizers to re-energize the American labor movement.

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

According to Donaldo Macedo, a former colleague of Freire and University of Massachusetts Amherst professor, Pedagogy of the Oppressed is a revolutionary text, and people in totalitarian states risk punishment reading it.

Pete Pfitzinger

He also holds a Master of Business Administration from Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management and a Master of Arts in exercise science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Richard D. Wolff

Both would then be part, along with Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis, and Rick Edwards, of the "radical package" that was hired in 1973 by the Economics Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where Wolff has been full professor since 1981.