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Bernie Sanders is a Democratic candidate for President of the United States. He is serving his second term in the U.S. Senate after winning re-election in 2012 with 71 percent of the vote. Sanders previously served as mayor of Vermont’s largest city for eight years before defeating an incumbent Republican to be the sole congressperson for the state in the U.S. House of Representatives. He lives in Burlington, Vermont with his wife Jane and has four children and seven grandchildren.
Bernard “Bernie” Sanders was born in Brooklyn, New York, to immigrant parents and grew up in a small, rent-controlled apartment. His father came to the United States from Poland at the age of 17 without much money or a formal education. While attending the University of Chicago, a 20-year-old Sanders led students in a multi-week sit-in to oppose segregation in off-campus housing owned by the university as a Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) officer. In August of 1963, Sanders took an overnight bus as an organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee to hear Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech firsthand at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
After graduation, Bernie moved to Vermont where he worked as a carpenter and documentary filmmaker. In 1981, he was elected as mayor of Burlington as an Independent by a mere 10 votes, shocking the city’s political establishment by defeating a six-term, local machine mayor. In 1983, Bernie was re-elected by a 21 point margin with a record amount of voter turnout. Under his administration, the city made major strides in affordable housing, progressive taxation, environmental protection, child care, women’s rights, youth programs and the arts. In 1990, Sanders was elected to the House of Representatives as the first Independent in 40 years and joined the Democratic caucus. He was re-elected for eight terms, during which he voted against the deregulation of Wall Street, the Patriot Act, and the invasion of Iraq.
In 2006, Sanders defeated the richest man in Vermont to win a seat in the U.S. Senate as an Independent. Known as a “practical and successful legislator,” Sanders served as chairman of the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs where he authored and passed the most significant veteran health care reform bill in recent history. While in the Senate, Sanders has fought tirelessly for working class Americans against the influence of big money in politics. In 2010, he gave an eight-and-a-half hour filibuster-like speech on the Senate floor in opposition to extending Bush-era tax breaks for the wealthy. In 2015, the Democratic leadership tapped Bernie to serve as the caucus’ ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee.
Known for his consistency on the issues, Senator Sanders has supported the working class, women, communities of color, and the LGBT community throughout his career. He is an advocate for the environment, unions, and immigrants. He voted against Keystone XL, opposes the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal, wants to expand the Voting Rights Act, and pass the Equal Rights Amendment.
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College Admissions: Inside the Decision Room
As high school seniors begin to receive their letters of admission to U.S. colleges, Bloomberg was invited to Amherst College for an inside look at how the admissions committee comes to a decision on who to admit and who to defer.
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Author Talks: Cesare Pavese and America
September 27, 2018
The UMass Amherst Italian Studies Program and the Libraries hosted a panel discussion to celebrate the acquisition of an important collection of Cesare Pavese's books, a gift from Lawrence G. Smith, author of Cesare Pavese and America.
At the time of his death Pavese (1908-1950) was one of Italy's best-known writers. A poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator, he had been profoundly influenced in his early years by American literature. As a scholar and translator, he introduced Italian readers to Melville's Moby-Dick, and to several other American authors.
Speakers:
Lawrence G. Smith: “'To Connie, who understands, from Cesare.' Four books inscribed by Pavese to Constance Dowling.
Mark Pietralunga: “'To my dear Buddy in America, who let me in a new world': Rivisiting the First Chapter of Pavese's Discovery of America”
Geoffrey Brock: Into a Rhythm: Translating Pavese's Poetry into English
Andrea Malaguti: First Love, Last Rites: Cesare Pavese and the Film Imagery
Co-sponsors: Dean's Office, Humanities and Fine Arts; Italian Studies Program; Languages, Literatures, and Cultures; UMass Amherst Libraries; UMass Press.
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Amherst, Massachusetts
Amherst is a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States in the Connecticut River valley. As of the 2010 census, the population was 37,819, making it the largest community in Hampshire County. The town is home to Amherst College, Hampshire College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, three of the Five Colleges. The name of the town is pronounced without the h, giving rise to the local saying, only the 'h' is silent, in reference both to the pronunciation and to the town's politically active populace.
The communities of Amherst Center, North Amherst, and South Amherst are census-designated places.
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Growing Up Bond
Bond siblings James, Julian, and Jane Moore discuss what it was like growing up as the children of Horace Mann Bond at UMass Amherst, February 12, 2014. The UMass Amherst Libraries are home to the Horace Mann Bond papers.
UMass Amherst Distinguished Faculty Lecture 2019, Professor Shlomo Zilberstein
Professor Shlomo Zilberstein from the College of Information and Computer Sciences at UMass Amherst presented his lecture: AI Will Change Everything, But Not So Fast on April 18, 2019 as part of the Distinguished Faculty Lecture series.
The field of artificial intelligence (AI) is experiencing a golden age. Scientific breakthroughs and game-changing technologies are rapidly altering the way we live, work, communicate, and entertain. Investment in AI is booming. Meanwhile, success stories and inevitable failures fuel speculations about the aggregate impact of AI on society. In this talk, he gives an historical perspective on the development of AI, including the pattern of research leaps followed by exaggerated expectations. With today’s best AI methods, it is easy to create a grandmaster chess player, but replicating the common sense of a three-year-old child remains elusive. He examines these challenges using insights from his research on automated reasoning, autonomous driving, and human-in-the-loop AI. The ability to sustain progress and responsibly deploy AI technology depends on a far better understanding of how humans use common sense to handle ordinary situations that they encounter every day.
UMass Amherst, the flagship campus of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the largest public research university in New England, distinguished by the excellence and breadth of its academic, research and community programs. Founded in 1863 and home to nearly 30,000 total undergraduate and graduate students, UMass ranks no. 27 in a field of more than 700 public, four-year colleges across the nation, according to the U.S. News & World Report's latest annual college guide.
UMass Amherst stretches across more than 1,400 acres of land in the historic Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts, providing a rich cultural environment in a rural setting close to major urban centers - campus sits 90 miles from Boston and 175 miles from New York City. The idyllic college town of Amherst is home to hiking, biking, museums, music, theater, history, food, farms and much more. UMass Amherst also joins a local consortium of five nationally recognized colleges, including Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke and Smith colleges.
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The Cipher, the Circle & its Wisdom: Toni Blackman at TEDxUMassAmherst
Award-winning artist, selected by U.S. Department of State as the first ever hip-hop ambassador to the United States. In this position, she has served in Senegal, Ghana, Botswana, and Swaziland to host performances, workshops, and lectures on hip-hop music and culture. She is also the founder and director of Freestyle Union, a cipher workshop that uses free styling as a tool to encourage social responsibility. She also is as a member of the Spoken Word Committee of the Grammy's decision board, New York Chapter.
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
Gays in the military | Vincent Cianni | TEDxUniversityofNevada
Using images and narrative, Vincent Cianni describes how his work documenting gays in the military broadened his own perspective of understanding and accepting the differences of others.
Documentary photographer Vincent Cianni graduated from Penn State University, the Maryland Institute College of Art, and SUNY New Paltz. He teaches photography at Parsons The New School for Design, NYC. He currently lives in Newburgh, NY. Cianni’s documentary work explores community and memory, the human condition, and the use of image and text. We Skate Hardcore, published by NYU Press and the Center for Documentary Studies in 2004, was voted Best Book Design by the American Association of University Presses. His work has also been reproduced in photo journals and anthologies such as The New York Times, Huffington Post, Double Take, Photograph, Creative Camera, The Sun, and The New Yorker. His photographs have been exhibited at Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Philadelphia Museum of Art; The Nasher Museum, Photographers’ Gallery, London; the 7th International Photography Festival in Mannheim; and the George Eastman House. A major survey of his work was exhibited at the Museum of the City of New York in 2006. Duke University’s David M. Rubenstein Rare Books and Manuscript Library established a study archive to insure the preservation of all his documentary projects as part of the Archive for Documentary Arts. His photographs are represented in numerous public and private collections: Philadelphia Museum of Art, George Eastman House, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum of the City of New York, Museum of Modern Art Rio de Janeiro, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Kinsey Institute for Sexual Research, and Bibliotecque National de France.
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top university massachusetts usa
Although Massachusetts is one of the smallest states by land area, Massachusetts is home to close to 80 colleges and universities for which U.S. News has information. Only about a dozen are publicly funded, including those within the University of Massachusetts system. Numerous notable private colleges are located in Massachusetts, with many in the state's largest city and capital, Boston. Large and midsize universities, small liberal arts colleges and art schools are located throughout Massachusetts and in cities such as Worcester, Brookline, Northampton and Cambridge.
Oklahoma College for Women campus and classroom scenes. 1928
Identifier: F2013.213.06
Description: Black and white silent film showing the Oklahoma College for Women campus and secenes of students in buildings, classrooms and having a meal.
Creator: Unknown
Coverage: Unites States-Oklahoma-Chickasha
MARC Geographic Areas United States (xxu); Oklahoma (oku)
Extent: (quantity/size) 6min 48sec
Media Moving Images,16mm film; AVI 1920X1080 29.97 FRAME RATE
Subjects: Women's colleges
Contact The Oklahoma Historical Society to purchase non watermarked DVD or High Resolution Digital File
Video: Why consider the University of Delaware?
Some public universities lure a large number of students from out-of-state. University of Delaware is one of those. Delaware is the second smallest state in the United States. With about 14,500 undergraduates, UD is smaller than a lot of other state universities. And over 60% of the student body comes from outside of the state of Delaware. Out-of-state students have to pay a higher tuition rate, but that rate is not horribly expensive, by national standards. I think it is a wonderful place for Chinese students to consider. Its size is smaller than many other places, and its location is convenient to the city centers of Philadelphia, New York City, and Baltimore.
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The State(s) We're In: A New Age of Transatlantic Relations – Migration and Art
Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a conversation on Migration and Art among Silvia Fehrmann, Director of the DAAD's Artists-in-Berlin Programme; the artist Andy Graydon; the photographer Stefan Falke; Nathalie Anglès, the director of Residency Unlimited; and the journalist and writer Claudia Steinberg.
November 27, 2018
In the past two years, the issue of migration, borders, and walls has become ever more prevalent in the public discourse of both Europe and the United States. In the panel discussion Migration and Art, acclaimed purveyors of culture who have voluntarily relocated will examine whether art transcends cultural and national boundaries, and reflect on how bringing their own talents and ideas into a different cultural context and initially foreign space has shaped their own artistic practice and general outlook.
This discussion is part of The State(s) We're In: A New Age of Transatlantic Relations, a series of six talks presented by Deutsches Haus at NYU that addresses an array of important topics that are currently intensely debated in both Germany and the United States, and are of political and sociopolitical relevance in both countries: threats to democracy; economic inequality and populism; migration and art; civil society and political engagement; climate change and activism; and educational policy and academic freedom.
Nathalie Anglès is co- founder and Executive Director of Residency Unlimited (RU). From 2000-2008, she worked at Location One as the Director of the International Residency Program. Before moving to New York in 2000, Nathalie worked in Paris at the Union Centrale des Arts Decoratifs (UCAD), Ecole des Beaux Arts (ENSBA), and the American Center Sotheby’s (London). In 2008, Nathalie received the title of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters from the French government.
German photographer Stefan Falke lives in New York City and has published two books: “MOKO JUMBIES: The Dancing Spirits of Trinidad,” a photo essay about a stilt walking school in Trinidad, and “LA FRONTERA: Artists along the US – Mexican Border,” the result of an ongoing project for which he photographed over 200 artists who live and work on both sides of the 2000 miles long US-Mexico border. His work has been exhibited internationally in galleries, photo festivals, and museums.
Silvia Fehrmann is a literary scholar, translator and cultural manager. In January 2018, she took on the role of head of the DAAD’s Artists-in-Berlin Programme, one of the world’s most renowned scholarship programmes for artists working in the visual arts, literature, music and film. Fehrmann was formerly the deputy director of the Berlin-based Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), which is a venue for contemporary arts and a forum for the public discourse. She is a spokesperson of the Rat für die Künste Berlin, an elected commission representing the Berlin´s cultural practitioners.
Working in film and video, sound, performances, and installations, Andy Graydon tracks the wayward lives of forms in the world, from morphogenesis to translation to decay. Interested in natural and social ecologies, and the role of listening and the voice, Andy Graydon’s work engages structures of music such as scoring, improvisation, collective emergence, and community. Andy Graydon is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Maui, Hawai’i. His work has been presented internationally at the New Museum, Participant Inc, New York; Berlinische Galerie, Berlin; the Frye Art Museum, Seattle; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Mass.; Honolulu Museum of Art, Hawai’i; Wroclaw Media Arts Bienniale, Poland; and others. Andy Graydon lived and worked in Berlin from 2008 to 2014, and taught sound art and photography at NYU Berlin from 2012 to 2014.
Claudia Steinberg left Cologne for New York in 1980, originally planning to stay for a year. Her decision to remain in New York was greatly influenced by her friendships and work relationships with German writers and artists who had fled Nazi Germany. When the wall between East and West Germany fell, longstanding political beliefs were put into question. In the last decade, Claudia Steinberg has developed a keen interest in the US/Mexican border — as a journalist she grew fascinated with the complex and untamable town of Tijuana, which became the subject of several articles. She writes for taz, Die Zeit, Vogue, Tank Magazine and The Fabulist, among other publications.
The State(s) We're In: A New Age of Transatlantic Relations. Migration and Art is supported by the Transatlantic Program of the Federal Republic of Germany with funds from the European Recovery Program (ERP) of the Federal Ministry for Economy and Energy (BMWi). Additional support is provided by the DAAD.
UMass on the Eve of the Disco Era
A look at the people, places, and events that shaped the University of Massachusetts during the late 1960s to the mid 1970s. Includes the Mills House occupation, Strike of 1970, Randolph Bromery, School of Education, Economics Department, Project 10, the building boom, and more.
Presented by Rob Cox, head of Special Collections and University Archives.
3-Minute Thesis 2018 Finalist, Jayash Paudel
UMass Amherst, the flagship campus of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the largest public research university in New England, distinguished by the excellence and breadth of its academic, research and community programs. Founded in 1863 and home to nearly 30,000 total undergraduate and graduate students, UMass ranks no. 27 in a field of more than 700 public, four-year colleges across the nation, according to the U.S. News & World Report's latest annual college guide.
UMass Amherst stretches across more than 1,400 acres of land in the historic Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts, providing a rich cultural environment in a rural setting close to major urban centers - campus sits 90 miles from Boston and 175 miles from New York City. The idyllic college town of Amherst is home to hiking, biking, museums, music, theater, history, food, farms and much more. UMass Amherst also joins a local consortium of five nationally recognized colleges, including Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke and Smith colleges.
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See It Through Buffalo - NYC film screening, panel conversation and reception
Join us for a critical conversation that draws lessons from Buffalo on the role of architecture and planning education in place-based urban regeneration. Film screening and panel conversation.
Participants
Our program features a lineup of distinguished thought leaders, practitioners and educators in architecture and planning. A moderated panel conversation and audience Q&A will be followed by a reception with the See It Through Buffalo production team and our panel participants.
Cathleen McGuigan, Moderator | Editor-in-Chief, Architectural Record
Cathleen McGuigan is Editor-in-chief of Architectural Record, the nation’s leading architecture publication for more than 125 years. Under her leadership, Record has won the Grand Neal award, the top American Business Media award for overall excellence, among numerous other editorial awards.
Deborah Berke, Panelist | Dean, Yale School of Architecture; Partner, Deborah Berke Partners
Deborah Berke, FAIA, LEED AP, is an architect, educator, and the dean of the Yale School of Architecture. She has been a professor (adjunct) at Yale since 1987. In 2012, she was the inaugural recipient of the Berkeley-Rupp Prize at the University of California at Berkeley, which is given to an architect who has advanced the position of women in the profession and whose work emphasizes a commitment to sustainability and the community.
Diane Davis, Panelist | Chair, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Diane E. Davis is the Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Development and Urbanism and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. Before moving to the GSD in 2011, Davis served as the head of the International Development Group in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT, where she also had a term as Associate Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning.
Robert Shibley, Panelist | Dean, UB School of Architecture and Planning
As a teacher, scholar and practitioner of architecture and planning for more than 40 years, Robert (Bob) Shibley has dedicated his career to advancing knowledge-based design and placemaking in service to the public. Shibley has served as dean of the School of Architecture and Planning since 2011. Joining UB in 1982 as chair of its architecture program, he continues to hold professorships in both architecture and urban planning. Shibley’s leadership in producing award-winning plans for Buffalo has spurred new investment and elevating public expectations for design and planning. He has directed efforts to draft Buffalo’s comprehensive plan, along with plans for the city’s waterfront, Larkin District and Olmsted park and parkway system, and today guides a series of regional economic and sustainable development plans. A fellow in the American Institute of Architects and American Institute of Certified Planners, Shibley has authored or co-authored 14 books and hundreds of publications. He consults internationally in service of excellence in the professions and design education.
See It Through Buffalo production team
Greg Delaney, Director
John Paget, Producer
Korydon Smith, Associate Director
More information at: ap.buffalo.edu/seeitthrough
Our program is presented in collaboration with Van Alen Institute, an independent nonprofit architectural organization dedicated to improving design in the public realm.
A foresight storytelling experience | Kewulay Kamara | TEDxUNC
In his TEDxUNC talk, Kewulay Kamara uses his experiences in Sierra Leone to describe a storytelling experience from his life.
Kewulay Kamara, is an internationally renowned poet, storyteller, and lecturer, has been the subject of three feature articles in The New York Times and has appeared on A&E Television, Public Television and other major media outlets. Kewulay has performed at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, The Kitchen, Symphony Space, Gerald Lynch Theater, City Center, The Museum of Natural History and Oxford University, and participated in The Peoples Poetry Gatherings, and the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry and Langston Hughes Festivals. He is the recipient of numerous grants from major foundations including the Ford Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, National Geographic, and National Endowment for the Arts. Kewulay received an MA in Economics at the Graduate Faculty New School for Social Research and presented a thesis for an MFA in Performance and Integrated Media Arts at Brooklyn College CUNY. He has lectured for 25 years at the City University of New York.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at
Diversity in Our Past: Students of Color at Massachusetts Agricultural College
Rob Cox, Head of the UMass Archives and Special Collections, discusses the history non-white students and women at the Massachusetts Agricultural College, precursor to UMass Amherst, during the late 19th and early 20th century.
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Sid Topol: Engineer, Capitalist, Philanthropist
Sidney Topol is a pioneering engineer and CEO in the telecommunications field. He was instrumental in the development of satellite technology that led to the birth of cable television. In this oral history/documentary he reflects on his 93+ years growing up in Boston as the son of a jewish immigrant family, his academic life at Boston Latin School, UMass Amherst, and the University of California Berkeley, his service during World War II, his work as an engineer for Raytheon and CEO of Scientific Atlanta, and his post-retirement efforts to fund efforts to promote nonviolence in solving world conflicts.
2nd Annual Art History Undergraduate Conference: Made in the USA (Timothy Rohan)
Keynote speaker, Timothy Rohan -- Bay State Renaissance: Paul Rudolph's 1960s Projects for Boston and Southeastern Massachusetts
2nd Annual UMassD Art History Undergraduate Symposium
Each year, the Art History Department sponsors an Undergraduate Art History Symposium open to undergraduate students across the globe. Students from arts and humanity disciplines are encouraged to submit and participate in this annual event held at the end of the spring semester.
In the early 1960s, the famed and controversial American modernist architect Paul Rudolph (1918--97) designed two related projects for Boston and Southeastern Massachusetts that helped redefine monumentality for the post World War II era. Though often maligned as 'Brutalist,' Rudolph's Boston Government Service Center (1962--71) and campus for the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth (1963--72) were attempts to bring citizens together to form community, provide them with better social services, and educate them in order to spark a 'renaissance' for the Commonwealth.
Timothy M. Rohan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art, Architecture and Art History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He holds a doctorate from Harvard and is completing a monograph about Paul Rudolph.
with discussant Anna Dempsey
Anna Dempsey, an Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, studied architecture and civil engineering at MIT. After graduation, she worked as a project and construction engineer before returning to graduate school to receive her PhD. She now teaches contemporary and modern design, art and new media classes. Her current research is concerned with gender and the development of modernism.