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Hub grads come up short in college

James Vaznis — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Outlet: Boston Globe - Online

About two-thirds of the city's high school graduates in 2000 who enrolled in college have failed to earn degrees, according to a first-of-its-kind study being released today. The findings represent a major setback for a city school system that mad

He's got balancing act in mind

Susan Chaityn Lebovits | November 16 — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Outlet: Boston Globe - Online

Professor Michael Milburn is a researcher and scholar, most notably in the areas of political and social psychology, at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. Over his 30 years as a teacher, Milburn has led classes in media analysis, political ps

Investors remain interested in medical device companies

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Outlet: New England Cable News - Online

(Peter Howe, NECN: Boston, MA) - The economy may be in crisis, but it's not dead -- especially not medical technology. We all want to live, so investors remain eager to find the next hot medical device company. Hundreds flocked Friday to a Mass. M

Low-Wage Workers Earning $8/Hour Can Be Better off Than at Twice the Pay

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Outlet: Forbes - Online

A single working parent with two children in Greater Boston earning $16,000 a year, the state's minimum wage, and receiving all the major public support programs available to her can better support her household than she could earning $16 an hour ($3

Massachusetts veterans information

Staff reports — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Outlet: Brockton Enterprise News

Who is a veteran? For veterans in Massachusetts, you are a veteran if you received a discharge under honorable conditions and served for at least 90 days of regular active duty, one day of which was during wartime, or you served for 180 days durin

US still a hot destination for Indian students

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Outlet: The Hindu

Advts: Retail Plus | Classifieds | Jobs | Obituary | Andhra Pradesh- Vijayawada Staff Reporter VIJAYAWADA: The craze among students for pursuing studies in American universities was evident at D.V. Manor on Tuesday, when city based Ace Sol

Start-ups looking hard for capital, but finding little

Todd Wallack — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Outlet: Boston Globe - Online

For six months, Flex Biomedical Inc.'s chief executive, Sal Braico, has been furiously trying to raise money to support his Brookline life sciences start-up, meeting with as many venture capital firms and angel investors as possible. But the timin

All walks of life

Nicole C. Wong — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Outlet: Boston Globe - Online

In the made-for-guys, made-by-guys video gaming industry, women are scarce. So building a company like Harmonix Music Systems, where one in five employees is female, is a real feat. And it makes a difference in the products. The female characters

WILEY Obama renews immigrant's hopes, dreams

Miryam Wiley — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Outlet: MetroWest Daily News, The

I watched up close the reaction of Brazilians and Americans at the Old Station Steak House in Framingham, as CNN stamped across the screen 'Obama projected winner' on Tuesday night. Amidst the elated small crowd was Brazilian Antonio Jose (not his re

A peace of their minds

Cullen, Kevin — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Outlet: Boston Globe - Online

Tom Hachey is a historian and runs the Center for Irish Programs up at Boston College, and he was looking forward to introducing a fellow named Anthony McIntyre to BC students this semester. McIntyre is a thoughtful guy who spent much of his life

How Abuja Stood Still for Poet, Okigbo's Daughter

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Outlet: AllAfrica.com

Obiageli Ibrahimat Okigbo, daughter of famous poet, the late Christopher Okigbo (1932-67) was a special guest at the critique reading of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), Abuja Branch. The date was Thursday, October 9, 2008 at the Shehu

Student loans crimp area colleges' fundraising work

Jesse Noyes — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Outlet: San Francisco Business Times - East Bay Bureau

Thats because Hague and his wife, Marie, who went to Curry College, together owe about $43,000 in student loans. Now they are thinking about moving in, with their young child, to Maries parents house to save money. In hindsight, Hague said if he h

Unions bet on gambling at W.Va.'s The Greenbrier

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Outlet: Examiner.com

1 day ago: This story ranks # 3,058 of 7,371 Related Topics: WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. (Map, News) - A contract dispute between unions representing about 1,200 workers and The Greenbrier, the world-famous lux

First-time voters energized by presidential race

Bijoyeta Das — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: Dorchester Reporter

She would rather vote for Tina Fey than for Sarah Palin, said Erin O'Connell, a UMass-Boston student and first time voter. But she is excited to be able to cast her ballot in the 'most historical' election in her lifetime. O'Connell is among many

Mass. financial services companies to take a hit

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: Boston Globe - Online

BOSTONEconomic experts predict that the nation's weakening economy will cost financial services companies in Massachusetts 7,200 jobs through the end of 2009. Gus Faucher, director of macroeconomics at Moody's Economy.com, tells The Boston Globe t

Making the grade in Massachusetts

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: New England Cable News - Online

(NECN) - Chet Curtis is joined by Paul Grogan, President and CEO of the Boston Foundation to kick off the third annual series of public affairs programming. The topic, State of Education: Making the Grade in Massachusetts. Over the next eight mont

Philanthropy File UMass eyes philanthropy to lure young professionals

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal

Seven teams of Emerging Leaders explored whether civic engagement could be the glue to bond peers their age to the Boston region. Massachusetts lost 300,000 residents between 2000 and 2007, many of them between 25 and 40 years old, said Andrew Sum

Increased job loss may point to a recession

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: New England Cable News - Online

(Brad Puffer, NECN: Boston, MA) - As consumers cut their spending and corporate profits decline, the pink slips trickle down and the vicious cycle continues. The rate of job layoffs seems to be picking up. Axcelis Technology in Beverly laid off 20

T to delay bond offer until after election

Eric Moskowitz — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: Boston Globe - Online

Concerned that a ballot question to repeal the state income tax could discourage investors, the MBTA will delay a planned $350 million bond offering until after the Nov. 4 election, the T's chief financial officer said yesterday. The underwriters

Economic signs in Mass. point to a recession

Gavin, Robert — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: Boston Globe - Online

The Massachusetts economy is either already in recession or will be there within the next six months, after economic growth ground nearly to a halt in September, the University of Massachusetts reported yesterday. The global financial crisis and w

Report Mass. economy can't escape recession

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: WHDH-TV - Online

BOSTON -- A new forecast from University of Massachusetts economists says that if the state is not already in a recession, it will be within the next six months. Massachusetts has been outperforming much of the nation over the last year, promptin

Report Massachusetts in Recession

Deb Becker — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: Boston Globe - Online

- The global financial crisis is now reverberating at the state level. A new University of Massachusetts report says the less than one percent growth rate in the state economy last month means the state can be officially considered in a recession, an

Russell Senior tax credit offers relief from winter woes

Laura Henze Russell — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: Daily News Tribune, The

With winter's cold winds just around the corner and skyrocketing energy costs, it is a trying time for seniors living on fixed incomes. Any savings invested in the stock market are plummeting faster than the thermometer. Seniors need all the help the

Talk of wealth redistribution

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: Boston Globe - Online

SENATOR JOHN McCain keeps telling people that instead of trying to spread the wealth,we should be trying to create wealth. However, the idea that there is necessarily a conflict between economic equality and economic growth has been thoroughly discre

Placebos commonly prescribed, survey says

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: Boston Globe - Online

The 'placebo effect' is one of the more fascinating phenomena blurring the mind-body divide: If you think a pill will help you, it will. A survey of American internists and rheumatologists reveals that about half of the doctors who responded think

Waltham's Gore Place celebrates Archaeology Month

Chris Bergeron — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: Daily News Tribune, The

Ashley Peles, a graduate student in the historial archaeology program at UMass-Boston, records information taken from a test pit at Gore Place in Waltham Friday,July 18, 2008. GHS WALTHAM To celebrate Archaeology Month, historic Gore Place

Students eye cheaper colleges as financial crisis deepens

Stacy Teicher Khadaroo — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: Christian Science Monitor - Online

Nearly 6 in 10 are considering less prestigious schools in order to trim costs, a survey finds. Page 1 of 2 This feature requires a newer version of Macromedia Flash Player and javascript-enabled browser. Reporter Stacy Teicher Khadaroo disc

Experts paint grim picture of economy

Matt Murphy — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: Berkshire Eagle

BOSTON Economists warned state policy makers yesterday that the recession facing Massachusetts could impact budgets for the next two to three years, a reality that may require deeper budget cuts, including reductions in local aid, in the years to co

Project Nur Announces 'A Native American History Symposium, Erasing Indians Investigating Accounts a

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: Atlanta Business Chronicle

BOSTON, Oct. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Project Nur is collaborating with the Department of Anthropology and the Native American Student Society ('NASS') at the University of Massachusetts-Boston ('UMass Boston') and the Plimoth Plantation on an

The 2008 Media Matters Writing Conference for New England Secondary Schools to Take Place November 6

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: Forbes - Online

The Boston Globe Foundation and The University of Massachusetts Boston announce the expansion of the annual Media Matters Writing Conference to include a second day devoted to middle school teachers and their students. The first day of the conference

Traveling road show arriving to get residents' stories, history

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: Boston Globe - Online

Pictures stuffed in boxes and photo albums gathering dust in the attic become more than stagnant artifacts during the University of Massachusetts at Boston's 'Mass. Memories Road Show.' They are, instead, part of a personal history of the state. 'It

SPEAK OUT Public breast-feeding Nursing vice president could dry up opposition

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: Patriot Ledger, The

The Legislature recently missed an important opportunity to finalize a bill to provide a fundamental protection to babies and nursing moms in public spaces. For a state that prides itself on world-class medical care and pioneering public health initi

New stimulus package might be next

Jim Puzzanghera and Richard Simon — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: Los Angeles Times - Online

WASHINGTON Amid fresh signs that the nation is in recession -- and yet another jaw-dropping decline in the stock market -- Congress is gearing up to enact a new economic stimulus plan to help ordinary Americans. But getting quick bipartisan agree

On-the-Job Training

Vaishali Honawar — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: Education Week - Online

Urban districts are turning to another model of preparation to get teachers-one run by an outside group that mixes classroom training with practical experience in their own schools. Each of the past five years, a group of new teachers has been ent

Getting a head start on college

Schworm, Peter — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: Boston Globe - Online

The University of Massachusetts at Boston instructor scribbled algebraic equations on the blackboard at a breakneck pace, a blur of variables and exponents. As the chalk flew, three students in the class took notes just as furiously, filling page aft

Going negative: pathetic, but it works

Robert L — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: Boston Globe - Online

THE ARTIFACT pictured here carries a political punch still being felt today. The few dark squiggles represent Michael S. Dukakis, the Democratic candidate for president in 1988. What makes the poster relevant 20 years later is its message, conveyed w

Managing the family fleet

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: Gloucester Daily Times, The

Allyson Jordan at home in a male-dominated field Ebb & Flow Peter K. Prybot Allyson Jordan has successfully managed the family's 71-foot Theresa & Allyson and the 65-foot Jamie & Ashley the past nine years in what remains a male-

What Country's Experience Can Contribute to Iraq [column]

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: AllAfrica.com

Business Day (Johannesburg) IF, AFTER generations of conflict and oppression, the people of Iraq find their way to living with each peaceably, there is a chance that SA's story as told by three of its central actors, Cyril Ramaphosa, Roelf Meyer a

Iraq peace process must be international effort, US panel is told

Jenny Paul — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: Boston Globe - Online

WASHINGTON - Members of a team that worked to produce a framework for political reconciliation in Iraq told a congressional subcommittee yesterday that the United States must involve the international community in further peace negotiations and allow

Witnesses to Cambodia, past and present

Lebeaux, Rachel — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: Boston Globe

Regular customers of the Wellesley Bakery & Café on Washington Street know that the business is a family affair. The Nuon family's cookies, soups, sandwiches and croissants - as well as their smiling faces behind the register - have attracted many

MA Economist Predicts Slow Rebound

Bob Oakes — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: Boston Globe - Online

- Massachusetts says it has managed to ease its short-term cash flow problems. This, after the state treasury sold $750 million worth of what are called 'revenue anticipation notes' yesterday. This means that, in order to meet its spending needs n

Retirement accounts have lost $2 trillion _ so far

HIRSCHFELD DAVIS — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: San Francisco Chronicle - Online

The upheaval that has engulfed financial firms and sent the stock market plummeting is also devastating people's savings, forcing families to hold off on major purchases and even delay retirement, Peter Orszag, the head of the Congressional Budget Of

Amid pageantry, a cultural lesson for participants

Maria Sacchetti — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: Boston Globe - Online

LYNN - She swept onto the stage in a glittering silver gown and beehive hairdo, the picture of poise in spike heels. The crowd in Lynn Memorial Auditorium went wild. There she was - Miss El Salvador Massachusetts. For one glamorous evening, Mar

Rx for the Mass. tech economy An ounce of prevention

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: Mass High Tech

North Atlantic Capital, Kodiak Ventures pour $7M into SaaS [October 2, 2008] How I See It: The future is bright for smartphones and the mobile web [September 26, 2008] Inside Growth Strategies: Sales roundtable: Web 2.0, Meet Sales 101 [Septemb

Immigrant Groups Receive $1.8 Million to Create Media about Community Health

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: Forbes - Online

A new model for improving the health of immigrants in the United States using media created by immigrants was announced today by New Routes to Community Health, a program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Benton Foundation. Eight diverse

Lumina Foundation Awards $1.4 Million Grant to the Education Commission of the States, UMass {

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal

DENVER, Sept. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today the Education Commission of the States (ECS), in collaboration with the National Access and Remediation Policy Project (NARPP) at the University of Massachusetts Boston, announces receipt of a Lumina

UMass venture development center nears completion

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: Boston Business Journal - Online

Boston > Print Edition > Industries > Health Care - Pharmaceuticals Boston Business Journal - by Jesse Noyes Boston Business Journal Related News A new venture development center at the University of Massachusetts Boston that is designed to bri

Expand access to college, Motley urges

Schworm, Peter — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: Boston Globe - Online

University of Massachusetts at Boston Chancellor J. Keith Motley called yesterday for a return to 'the idea of public education as an investment' to reduce social inequality by expanding college access for low-income students. Speaking at the univ

UMass-Boston joins city retail-card program

Reidy, Chris — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: Boston Globe - Online

The University of Massachusetts Boston and the Boston Main Streets program announced a partnership to promote the Boston Community Change card among the university's more than 75,000 students, faculty and staff, and alumni. The partnership was ann

Fundraising launched for Kennedy Senate Institute

Glen Johnson — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: Boston Globe - Online

BOSTON The facility will be located on Columbia Point on a four-acre plot between UMass-Boston and the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum, itself a center for studying the presidency and the administration of the senator's late brother

UMass eyes new buildings

Fitzgerald, Jay — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: Boston Herald - Online

The University of Massachusetts at Boston is pushing ahead with plans to spend up to $300 million to build a new science center and classroom building on its Dorchester campus. But the university made clear yesterday that its more controversial pl

College families scouring for loans

Schworm, Peter — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: Boston Globe - Online

With tuition bills looming, thousands of Massachusetts students and parents are scrambling to secure college loans amid deep turbulence in the nation's credit markets, but college and university officials are reassuring families they should be able t

Randolph charts new course with UMass students

Schworm, Peter — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: Boston Globe - Online

In just his first month of education classes, Josh Wilber seems an unlikely catalyst to help turn around a troubled school system. But the 32-year-old and a dozen other master's degree students at the University of Massachusetts at Boston are poised

Chancellor wants dorms at UMass-Boston

Associated Press — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: Boston Herald - Online

QUINCY - The chancellor of the University of Massachusetts-Boston says he wants to build dormitories to house 2,000 students at the commuter school. Keith Motley tells the Patriot Ledger of Quincy that he has a vision for the future of the campus

UMass Boston chancellor hopes to provide housing for 2,000 students

Nancy Reardon — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: MetroWest Daily News, The

UMass Boston Chancellor Keith Motley of Stoughton GateHouse News Service Making it to the lecture hall on time at the University of Massachusetts at Boston is only a T ride away for most of its students. Imagine if it were closer. Thats t

UMass Boston chancellor hopes to provide housing for 2,000 students

Nancy Reardon — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: Patriot Ledger, The

Making it to the lecture hall on time at the University of Massachusetts at Boston is only a T ride away for most of its students.

Iraqi Parties, After Meetings in Finland, Agree on Principles to Guide Further Talks

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: New York Times

After years of vicious fighting among Iraq's fractious groups and some incomplete attempts at reconciliation, a ceremony here on Saturday marked a tiny step forward, at least symbolically. The event was the result of several meetings in Helsinki,

McGuinness urges Iraq tolearn from N. Ireland's past

Khalid al-Ansary — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: Boston Globe - Online

BAGHDAD - Martin McGuinness, Northern Ireland's deputy first minister and a former top IRA guerrilla, urged Iraqis yesterday to learn from the experience of his homeland, which suffered decades of sectarian conflict, then found peace. McGuinness w

Modest UMass prof major force in Iraqi peace deal

UNDERWOOD, MIKE — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: Boston Herald

Professor, peacemaker, penman, publican - Padraig O'Malley is many things to many people. But today, the 64-year-old UMass-Boston professor is set to cement his status as one of the world's top unsung peace brokers with the announcement of a histo

Feuding Iraqis reach agreement

Stockman, Farah — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: Boston Globe - Online

WASHINGTON - Nearly two dozen leaders from Iraq's feuding factions who were brought together under the aegis of a University of Massachusetts at Boston professor are slated to unveil an agreement tomorrow aimed at healing the ethnic and sectarian rif

Program gets techno-generation moving

Neil Munshi — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: Boston Globe - Online

A gaggle of elementary school girls stomped on pads that lit up to the beat of a dance-remix version of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor. In another room, two girls rode stationary bikes, while the LCD screens before them showed the pair rac

UMass works to boost businesses in Haiti

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal

Higher Education for Development (HED) has joined the University of Massachusetts Boston with the State University of Haiti National Institute of Administration and Management and International Studies (INAGHEI) to help create better management for H