On August 12, the UMass Boston Nantucket Field Station hosted a symposium on the theme "Our Oceans = Our Future." Hosted by Steve Curwood of Living on Earth, author Carl Safina and professor John Duff of the School for the Environment spoke on the importance of understanding our oceans.
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William Poehler, father of actors and NBC stars Greg and Amy Poehler, will be inducted into the UMass Boston Hall of Fame on Thursday, October 9, 2014. Here, Bill Poehler talks about his being a member of the Boston State College Warriors, and why he says the basketball team changed his life.To see the full list of inductees, go to: http://www.umb.edu/athletics/special_programs/hall_of_fame - 0:34SAEC 50th Birthday Bash
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Jarrett Byrnes, assistant professor of biology at the University of Massachusetts Boston, wants you to take part in his latest marine ecology research – and you don’t even have to get your feet wet. Byrnes, along with colleagues from California, Portugal, and Chile, is trying to find out whether climate change is having an impact on giant kelp forests. To do that, he needs citizen scientists identify these green patches of kelp forest – from space. Visit http://www.floatingforests.org and http://www.umb.edu/news/detail/you_can_help_scientists_track_giant_kelp_from_space to learn more. Photos are from Santa Barbara Coastal LTER. - 0:39UMass Boston's Birthday Block Party
On June 18, 1964, Governor Endicott Peabody signed the legislation that established the University of Massachusetts Boston as the second undergraduate campus in the UMass system. On June 18, 2014, the university community and neighbors marked that signing with a block party and by doing some signing of their own—signing an extra large birthday card. See how else UMass Boston celebrated its 50th anniversary, watch this video. To see other photos from the event, go to: https://www.flickr.com/photos/umass_boston/sets/72157645294226383/ - 1:23Student Playwright Wraps up Theatre Boot Camp at O'Neill Theater Center
UMass Boston English and theatre arts major Rick Chason is finishing up his two weeks as a critic fellow at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Critics Institute. It's a boot camp for theatre writers. Chason earned this opportunity after receiving the Kennedy Center American Theatre College (KCACTF) Award to attend the National Critics Institute in Washington, DC this spring. He's been working with playwrights on their new plays.You can learn about the boot camp here: http://www.theoneill.org/professional-development-and-education/nci/You can learn about the UMass Boston Student Playwrights Project here: http://www.umb.edu/news/detail/call_for_submissions_umb_playwrights_project_fall_2014
