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May 12, 2021
Congressman Richard Neal is announcing emergency funding from the American Rescue Plan for colleges and universities in the area. Neal says ninety-million dollars is being set aside for local institutions to deal with the financial fallout of the coronavirus pandemic.
At least half of the funding will help students who are facing hunger, homelessness and other hardship.
There are thirteen schools getting funding:
American International College: $5,686,696
Bay Path University: $4,881,677
College of Our Lady of the Elms: $3,608,828
Berkshire Community College: $3,969,913
Holyoke Community College: $13,291,667
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts: $3,942,592
Westfield State University: $12,788,564
Mount Holyoke College: $4,217,824
Nichols College: $3,308,361
Springfield College: $8,898,028
Western New England University: $6,961,297
May 04, 2021
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Nancy H. Ruddle, PhD, John Rodman Paul Professor Emerita at the Yale School of Public Health and the Yale School of Medicine has been selected as the 2021 recipient of the Connecticut Medal of Science.
Ruddle is a pioneering immunologist who discovered lymphotoxin, an immune signaling molecule or cytokine and demonstrated its roles and mechanisms in cytotoxicity, autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis and Type 1 diabetes, and in lymph node development. Her work was fundamental to the understanding of tertiary lymphoid organs, accumulations of lymphoid cells that are damaging in autoimmunity but can be key to defense against microorganisms and tumors.
Supporters of Gorse Children’s Center at Mount Holyoke College plan Friday rally; college forms working group to study care options
Updated May 06, 2021;
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SOUTH HADLEY – A community group advocating that Mount Holyoke College keep the Gorse Children’s Center open permanently are planning another rally in support of the effort Friday beginning at 5 p.m., where they plan to march from the children’s center to the main campus gate on Route 116. Meanwhile, the college formed a working group to study child care options that began meeting this week.
Gorse Action Group, a coalition of several hundred parents, college students, faculty and staff, formed quickly on Feb. 27, then holding their first rally when the college, at the time, said the Gorse would permanently close in June. The closure plan was quickly shelved following protests - and the matter is now being reviewed.