Exchange
All the letters, all the time, most recently: "A case could be made that the mystery man was a master herdsman from the farm up the road..."

Around the Pond
Celebrating Du Bois; the budget; new buildings; the old Minuteman; Bezanson improved; concrete canoes and much more.

Extended Family
Foundation News; the Friends of the Library throw a party; In Memoriam, and other family business.

Great Sport
Alum Dave Littlefield leads Pittsburgh Pirates; men’s lacrosse hits three-year high; our polo team; and season highlights.

Arts
Matt Haimovitz takes his cello to surprising venues.

Books
Laurence Pringle ’61 brings nature to life for kids.

Freeze-frame
Shakespeare in a Renaissance setting.

Contributors
Terry Y. Allen, Judson Brown, Vincent Cleary, Charles Creekmore, Cynthia Fisher, Christopher O'Carroll, Marietta Pritchard, Sam Silverstein, Constanza Villalba, Faye S. Wolfe, Leslie Wolfe

North 40
A comfortable perch for bonding across generations.

  Summer 2003
Research and scholarship at UMass Amherst
Our passionate explorers and their worlds of discovery

Dear Master
Who did Emily Dickinson really love? Historian Ruth Owen Jones ’86G unearths new evidence.

The Vast Area of Small
Less is more as nanotechnology researchers explore the world of tiny phenomena.

Tiny couch potatoes
Deborah Good gets mice to chill out.

Pumped-up Roosters
Introducing the Center for Neuroendocrine Studies, where hormones make all the difference.

The pervasive presence of microbes
Microbiologist Derek Lovley keeps on being surprised.

At-risk Native Talk
Our continent’s first languages risk extinction.

Our giant in hedge funds
The School of Management’s Thomas Schneeweis.

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