http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/youmass/ 2009-09-04T13:27:20-04:00 http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/youmass/ http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/youmass/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2009-09-02T14:26:37-04:00 dkovacs http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/youmass/doku.php?id=about:youmass&rev=1251915997&do=diff Welcome to YouMass, a wiki designed to explore the people, history, and culture of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. When the University was founded as the Massachusetts Agricultural College in 1863, one of two colleges in the Commonwealth founded under the Morrill Land Grant, a handful of faculty members and students cleared brush, tilled fields, and planted trees to lay out a campus of nearly 1,450 acres. Today, UMass Amherst has a community of over 20,000 undergraduates and nearly 6,0… text/html 2009-08-14T09:40:30-04:00 rscox http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/youmass/doku.php?id=a:astronomy&rev=1250257230&do=diff The Department of Astronomy is an independent, active, and vibrant department that offers undergraduate and graduate instruction, unique among New England public institutions. Astronomy at the University began in the 1960s within the Department of Physics and Astronomy. After more than 30 years of steady growth and progress, Astronomy became an independent department in 2000. It collaborates with Amherst College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and Hampshire College to form the Five Colleg… text/html 2009-05-12T10:48:40-04:00 dkovacs http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/youmass/doku.php?id=d:duboislibrary&rev=1242139720&do=diff Constructed: 1971-1973 Architects: Edward Durrell Stone, New York, N.Y. ---------- Design and construction Rising twenty-eight stories into the Pioneer Valley sky, this monumental building is one of the defining architectural features of the UMass landscape. The outer surface of the Library is clad with a brick veneer intended to harmonize with its surroundings. The original entrance to the Library was through doors on a lower level that opened to the Campus Pond; this floor now house… text/html 2009-04-30T10:12:10-04:00 rscox http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/youmass/doku.php?id=f:fernaldhall&rev=1241100730&do=diff Constructed: 1909-1910 Architects: C. P. Hoyt, Boston, Mass. ---------- Design and construction Designed to house offices, laboratories and classrooms, museum space, and an auditorium for the Departments of Entomology and Zoology, Fernald Hall was dedicated on November 11, 1910. Built in a relatively conventional, symmetrical Georgian Revival style, the building was sited slightly north of the old entomological laboratory. Constructed of brick with stone trimmings, it features a steel fr… text/html 2009-04-30T10:09:56-04:00 rscox http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/youmass/doku.php?id=f:fernald_henry_t&rev=1241100596&do=diff Born at Litchfield, Maine, on April 17, 1866, Henry T. Fernald early on in life absorbed the interests of his father, Charles Henry Fernald, and followed in his footsteps into a career in entomology. Educated largely at home while his father was on faculty of the Maine State College in Orono, and receiving his B.Sc. there in 1885, Henry pursued post-graduate work in biology and geology at Wesleyan University, before receiving his PhD in Zoology at Johns Hopkins in 1890 for a dissertation on “Th… text/html 2009-04-30T09:59:59-04:00 rscox http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/youmass/doku.php?id=f:fernald_charles_h&rev=1241099999&do=diff Born on March 16, 1838, in Mt. Deserst, Maine, Charles H. Fernald entered the Maine Wesleyan Seminary at the age of 21 with the intention of becoming a sea captain. Before completing his degree, however, he volunteered for duty in the Union Navy, and while serving, Fernald managed to complete a bachelors degree at Bowdoin College.