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AMHERST â A professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has received a $1 million grant to test public water and private wells in the state for contaminated substances.
A team led by Professor David Reckhow will analyze samples from as many as 1,600 public water systems and 3,500 private water wells. The samples will be tested for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), according to a news release from UMass Amherst.
A small group from UMass Lowell will also assist in this statewide effort.
PFAS are a group of human-made chemicals that have been manufactured and used in industrial applications since the 1940s. The chemicals are found in a variety of products, they donât break down and can easily accumulate in humans over time. There is scientific evidence that exposure to PFAS can have adverse health effects in humans, the release stated.
On the Zoom screen, acclaimed writer Ocean Vuong donned a pair of tortoise shell glasses. In the background was a geometric array of potted plants hanging from his wall. He opened the virtual conversation with the ringing of a bell, a meditative gesture that prompted listeners to “call back” past versions of themselves. He read a poem titled “Not Even” from his forthcoming collection to the faceless audience of over one thousand participants. One particular line resonated powerfully:
“What if it wasn’t the crash that made me, but the debris?”
Though people often possess a deep aversion to the past, Vuong does not yield to this impulse. The enduring resonance of his texts emerges from his willingness to continually revisit the past as a space of reclamation and dialogue.
Topline results and crosstabs for the poll can be found at www.umass.edu/poll
AMHERST, Mass. – Nearly two-thirds of Americans and 90% of Republicans oppose the idea of providing reparations to the descendants of slaves, according to the results of a nationwide University of Massachusetts Amherst/WCVB poll released today.
“Four hundred years since Africans were forcibly brought to the shores of America, 245 years since the 3/5th Compromise and 156 years since freed African Americans were promised 40 acres and a mule, a majority of Americans express an unwillingness to pay the descendants of slaves for the nation’s original sin,” says Tatishe Nteta, associate professor of political science at UMass Amherst and director of the poll.