UMass Biological Archaeology & Forensics
Ventura R. Pérez, Ph.D., Editor-in-Chief of Landscapes of Violence and Associate Professor of Biological Archaeology in the Department of Anthropology at UMass Amherst, talks about his field school and his class that deals with bio-archaeology and forensic anthropology. The field school gives students a chance to apply what they have learned at a mock crime scene and archaeological dig. Doctoral candidate Heidi Bauer-Clapp, who assists Perez, also joins him in the studio.
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On the Road in Franklin County: Franklin County Tech School
Through the help of a local manufacturing company, Franklin County Technical High School recently expanded its machine technology program. The school now has the capacity to graduate 12 to 15 students a year into manufacturing careers. There is also enough capacity to carry about 30 adult students in the evening program for about 45 graduates a year. Connecting Point’s Aliz Koletas visited to school recently to learn more.
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The Beavers Club of Western Mass
The Beavers Club of Western Mass was started in 1946 by a group of local businessmen of French descent because they weren’t being allowed into existing clubs. Members of the club have to be at least 1/4 French descent and undertake work projects for local non-profits. The Club has given away more than a million dollars in money and labor to the community.
Geoff Croteau, past president and current membership chair, talks about the discrimination their club faced in its early beginnings and how the club’s been able to help countless non-profits since then.
Rhodes Scholar Clarke Knight
Smith College senior Clarke Knight, one of just thirty-two people nationwide selected as a 2014 Rhodes Scholar, discusses her reaction to receiving this honor and the research she plans to pursue.
