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Spring 2012<br />
THE MAGAZINE FOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS Amherst<br />
Innovators<br />
&<br />
Entrepreneurs<br />
14 umass amherst<br />
Spring 2012<br />
THE MAGAZINE FOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS<br />
14 Imagine That!<br />
A look at people and programs generating<br />
innovation and entrepreneurship on<br />
campus and off.<br />
24 War Comes to Lewis Hall<br />
College buddies recall Pearl Harbor bombing.<br />
26 Heavy Horses<br />
The Stockbridge School brings draft<br />
horses back to campus for sustainable<br />
agriculture.<br />
32 Tea for Ten<br />
Students sip and think in a seminar<br />
on tea culture.<br />
Cover illustration by Ben Aslett<br />
Departments<br />
2 Inbox<br />
4 Around the Pond<br />
The marching band<br />
comes home; new<br />
greenhouses; STPEC<br />
turns 40; and more.<br />
10 Science Notebook<br />
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<a title="zmags-spg12 page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94aec8f8?page=8"> Around the Pond Back from Africa LÉONCE NDIKUM</a>
<a title="zmags-spg12 page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94aec8f8?page=9"> Seeing-Eye Building JOHN SOLEM WHILE TRYING </a>
<a title="zmags-spg12 page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94aec8f8?page=10"> Around the Pond The ABCs of Social Justice FOR </a>
<a title="zmags-spg12 page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94aec8f8?page=11"> SEEN ON CAMPUS: S</a>
<a title="zmags-spg12 page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94aec8f8?page=12"> Science Notebook Tracking Regional Climate Change</a>
<a title="zmags-spg12 page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94aec8f8?page=13"> Racial Trauma NEW RESEARCH based on post-hospita</a>
<a title="zmags-spg12 page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94aec8f8?page=14"> Sports Minutes Crew Grit TWIRLI</a>
<a title="zmags-spg12 page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94aec8f8?page=15"> PHOTOS BY JOHN SOLEM Amanda Kraus ’95 helps New </a>
<a title="zmags-spg12 page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94aec8f8?page=16"> I M aG THa I ! T N e Imagination infu</a>
<a title="zmags-spg12 page 17" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94aec8f8?page=17"> gram known as IGERT (Integrative Today, the uni</a>
<a title="zmags-spg12 page 18" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94aec8f8?page=18"> JOHN SOLEM Therapeutic Systems co-founders and 2</a>
<a title="zmags-spg12 page 19" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94aec8f8?page=19"> National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alli</a>
<a title="zmags-spg12 page 20" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94aec8f8?page=20"> JOHN SOLEM Samuel del Pilar (left) in Nike Blaze</a>
<a title="zmags-spg12 page 21" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94aec8f8?page=21"> Small Scale, Big Innovation Bringing nanotech won</a>
<a title="zmags-spg12 page 22" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94aec8f8?page=22"> On the Drug Discovery Frontier Innovation that sa</a>
<a title="zmags-spg12 page 23" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94aec8f8?page=23"> The Door is Open University of Massachusetts Inno</a>
<a title="zmags-spg12 page 24" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94aec8f8?page=24"> The Sage Steps Off the Stage Inspired, energetic </a>
<a title="zmags-spg12 page 25" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94aec8f8?page=25"> JOHN SOLEM In Du Bois Library’s team- based lear</a>
<a title="zmags-spg12 page 26" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94aec8f8?page=26"> War Comes to Lewis Hall College buddies recall Pe</a>
<a title="zmags-spg12 page 27" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94aec8f8?page=27"> Sidney Topol ’47, left, and Samuel Glass ’48 retu</a>
<a title="zmags-spg12 page 28" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94aec8f8?page=28"> The Stockbridge School of Agriculture </a>
<a title="zmags-spg12 page 29" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94aec8f8?page=29"> By Laura Marjorie Miller </a>
<a title="zmags-spg12 page 30" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94aec8f8?page=30"> s as of u t atching the draft-horse class dr</a>
<a title="zmags-spg12 page 31" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94aec8f8?page=31"> Justin Morace teaches students the art and scienc</a>
<a title="zmags-spg12 page 32" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94aec8f8?page=32"> “Two-leggers” and “four-leggers”: working togethe</a>
<a title="zmags-spg12 page 33" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94aec8f8?page=33"> Carter and Bob take students for a spin around Ha</a>
<a title="zmags-spg12 page 34" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94aec8f8?page=34"> JOHN SOLEM By Helen Wise </a>
<a title="zmags-spg12 page 35" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94aec8f8?page=35"> The first time Bischoff offered the course—two </a>
<a title="zmags-spg12 page 36" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94aec8f8?page=36"> Alumni Association Brings Innovator to Campus Di</a>
<a title="zmags-spg12 page 37" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94aec8f8?page=37"> You were. You are. UMASS. Students and alumni in</a>
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<a title="zmags-spg12 page 39" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94aec8f8?page=39"> You were. You are. UMASS. There’s a New Mascot </a>
<a title="zmags-spg12 page 40" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94aec8f8?page=40"> As a graduate of UMass Amherst, you are automatic</a>
<a title="zmags-spg12 page 41" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94aec8f8?page=41"> You were. You are. UMASS. Venture Capitalist </a>
<a title="zmags-spg12 page 42" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94aec8f8?page=42"> UMass People War Zones to Mountain Tops </a>
<a title="zmags-spg12 page 43" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94aec8f8?page=43"> Polo to Politics HINA RABBANI KHAR ’02G became P</a>
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