Department of Environmental Conservation

Courtesy of UMass News & Media: https://www.umass.edu/gateway/feature/reviving-noble-elm    It takes the mind of an urban forester to envision how a seed the size of a pinky nail will grow into a towering elm tree. “That’s the future, right there,” says Justin Hailey ’18S, ’20, as he gently pokes an elm seed into a seed tray in […]

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June 25, 2018

Inside the John W. Olver Design Building–itself a teaching tool for builders and architects–the Building and Construction Technology program (BCT) has built eight movable, full-scale mockups of building assemblies to help students see how modern building components go together in the real world.

At home in front of a class or wheeled into public view in the Olver atrium, the mockups display the

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Courtesy: UMass News & Media Relations Contact: Timothy Randhir 413/545-3969 AMHERST, Mass. – Surprise and uncertainty are becoming more common in water resource planning, says University of Massachusetts Amherst water resource researcher Timothy Randhir, and there is a need for new approaches. Now he and colleagues propose dusting off a “surprise potential framework” developed decades ago that […]

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