Cultural Exchange

I was contracted to cover a series of State Department foreign exchange programs that are administered by the UMass Donahue Institute. For two and a half months I followed the various groups – including Iraqi college students, Indonesian teachers, Argentine grad students and a group of 18 professors each from seperate countries – as they experienced everything America has to offer....

Against the Deadline

The atmosphere is tense at the Boston Globe headquarters on May 3rd, 2009. In just a few hours, the employees of the paper will learn their fate. Will the New York Times shut the New England institution down? How much will the unions sacrifice to save it? This piece provides a glimpse into a brief moment in history, when the fate of New England’s paper of record – and its 1400 employees –...

Footage Featured on NECN

The University Club at UMass Amherst recently opened to the public and was looking for some exposure. I was sent out by New England Cable News (NECN) to capture footage of the cozy – and possibly haunted – restaurant. On November 6, 2008 it was broadcast on the show News Day Live, during the Jenny Cam...

What is a Bioactive?

Ferg Clydesdale is an Emeritus Professor at UMass Amherst and was, before his retirement a few years ago, the longtime head of the Food Science department. I spoke with him about the new Health and Wellness Center being built at UMass, and what opportunities it will...

Celebratory Riots

December 15th, 2006 was not UMass Amherst’s finest moment. After the Minuteman football team lost in the Division AA National Championship, thousands of students poured out of their dorms and proceeded to cause over $100,000 in damage to their own residential area. Unfortunately, these kind of riots are more commonplace than expected, and their frequency is increasing. With the Red Sox on...