Month: March 2011

The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and the Home Builders Institute have recognized BCT Senior Charles Emma, with a 2010-11 Outstanding Student Award. This award recognizes students, from across the country, for their academic standing; involvement with NAHB Student Chapters and local Home Builders Association; and their interest in pursing a career involved with the residential building industry. Chuck is the President of the UMASS NAHB Student Chapter and was actively involved in leading this year's Chapter activities including: several field trips to area businesses and trade shows, representation at the Home Builders and Remodelers Association of Western Massachusetts Board Meetings and Home Show, and raising travel scholarship funds to send 7 students to the International Builders Show in Orlando, FL....

Gloucester Times - By Richard Gaines http://www.gloucestertimes.com/local/x1527123018/Bluefin-tuna-central Bluefin Tuna Central With its in- and offshore waters a cavorting grounds for the noble, mysterious and highly migratory bluefin tuna, the port of Gloucester has long been a haunt of bluefin fishermen, blue fin buyers and exporters. Now, thanks to a partnership between the state Division of Marine Fisheries and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, the old research station at Hodgkins Cove in Bay View — once the site of the loading dock for shipping Gloucester granite, and more recently a UMass seafood research laboratory — is about to become the new, permanent home of a small but globally influential research laboratory dedicated to the study of bluefin tuna and other long- distance marine travelers. "It's just such a perfect fit on so many levels," said Paul Fisette, chairman of the UMass Department of Environmental Conservation. To introduce herself and her colleagues to the community, internationally-known tuna scientist and center director Molly Lutcavage has organized a free...