Pioneer Valley Lie Sciences Institute
The Pioneer Valley Lie Sciences Institute was created in 2002 by the University o Massachusetts Amherst and Baystate Med-ical Center, the western campus o the Tuts University School o Medicine, to provide a novel translational research environ-ment or interdisciplinary teams o lie scientists, physical scientists, engineers, and physicians. The PVLSI was incorporatedas a 501(c) 3 not-or-prot organization in 2004 and designed as a joint venture between the University o MassachusettsAmherst, and the Baystate Medical Center. The vision or the PVLSI emerged rom the strengths o each partner. Baystate Medical Center had excellent clinical acilitiesand strong educational programs but little basic science research. UMass Amherst had excellent basic science research ac-ulty but limited opportunity to link the basic sciences to clinical medicine. By creating the PVLSI, UMass Amherst now has aplace to give access to a wide range o scientic and engineering disciplines, including many not ound in traditional medi-cal school environments, while Baystate provides the deep clinical expertise o a major teaching hospital. The joint ventureaddresses a unique set o needs or each by providing a mechanism or the two institutions to work together in biomedicalresearch and by providing opportunities and acilities that would not otherwise be available to them.
Community Research Engagement REU
This new program will provide mentors or undergraduate students or a 10-week summer program or rising seniors (thosewho are in the summer beore their senior year) to participate in an ongoing or new community-engaged research projectin western Massachusetts, with preerence or the Holyoke or Springeld communities. Students will meet as a group orseminars and training in community-engaged research, present their research study proposal aims and hypotheses, andpresent study results to students and aculty.
PV STEMNET
The Pioneer Valley Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics PreK-16 Pipeline Network (PV STEMNET) collaborateswith the Springeld School District, the Springeld Archdiocese Schools, and Springeld area colleges—Springeld Col-lege, Western New England College, and Springeld Technical Community College—to address systemic change, administerregional projects, and communicate inormation about unding opportunities, events, and training sessions.
Massachusetts School Counseling Model Implementation Project
The Massachusetts School Counseling Model Implementation Project is committed to ensuring that all children receive thebenets o outstanding school counseling. Supported by the Center or School Counseling Outcome Research, the Spring-eld District has undertaken a sel-study and program review to examine new models and directions to ensure that allstudents in the district have access to the benets o an exemplary school-counseling program.
City o Springfeld - UMass Amherst Partnership
March 2012
180 Days in Springeld
180 Days in Springeld, a program or beginning teachers interested in teaching in urban settings, now in its second de-cade, consists o graduate coursework combined with a yearlong teaching assignment in the Springeld Public Schools.Master’s degree students create service-learning projects that provide opportunities or middle and high school studentsto participate in programs ranging rom school tutoring to sports clubs, school and community beautication projects andarts-related activities. 180 Days in Springeld serves as preparation or Massachusetts Initial Teacher Licensure.
4MALITY
Faculty and graduate students, in conjunction with the Center or Educational Sotware Development, developed anintelligent tutoring system designed to improve ourth-grade mathematics MCAS test scores in Springeld, Greeneld,Northampton, and Amherst schools.
ACCELA: The Access through Critical Content and English Language Acquisition
ACCELA: The Access through Critical Content and English Language Acquisition (ACCELA) Alliance in Springeld and Holy-oke prepares teachers to work with English language learners. It oers a master’s degree in education with licensure in ESL(English as a Second Language) and Reading or school educators. The ACCELA Fellowship Program also provides graduatescholarships or bilingual pre-service and in-service teachers and the ACCELA Proessional Development initiative created aorum or administrators to learn rom local teacher research activities.
Closing the Achievement Gap in Springeld Public Schools
Supported by a Public Service Endowment Grant, research on innovative teaching strategies with English language learn-ers and culturally diverse students in our urban middle schools is being conducted by School o Education aculty to assistSpringeld Public Schools in developing a basis or initiatives that have the potential to reduce the achievement gaps intheir classrooms. The research will inorm the national debate about eective strategies to close the gap.
Teaching Teachers about Robotics
The School o Education is collaborating with Tuts University, Springeld College, the Hampden County Regional Employ-ment Board, Hasbro Summer Learning Initiative, a district science specialist, and Springeld’s Van Sickle Middle Schoolprincipal and science teachers who have been trained in LEGO robotics, in a ederally unded, summer robotics programdesigned to expand innovative learning that addresses both the academic and developmental needs o students.
Tutoring Enrichment Assistance Models or Schools (TEAMS)
The Tutoring Enrichment Assistance Models or Schools (TEAMS) Project, which began in 1984, places School o Educationundergraduate and graduate student tutors in Springeld and other area schools. The project aims to improve school per-ormance among K-12 students and increase knowledge o teaching as a career among college tutors.
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Circuits and Beats
Circuits and Beats 2011 was the second year or this two week summer camp outreach program or middle school-aged chil-dren in Holyoke and Springeld. The program introduced 20 children to the world o electrical and computer engineeringvia a series o hands-on projects culminating in their successul building o the SDM1, a spinning drum machine kit inventedand designed at M5. Each child was able to keep his/her own drum machine. The Circuits and Beats program was unded byECE, M5, ECE alumni, riends o ECE and the Americorps volunteer program. Several Americorp volunteers served as sta,too.
MSBDC eSolutions
Student teams act as consultants and provide e-Solutions to local small businesses by designing a prototypical website anddeveloping a set o business strategies. Current projects include Heart o Shamanism, Crosse Custom Graphics, and ApexHealthcare Services, Inc. Since 1999, more than 150 companies have been served.
Student Chapter o the National Society o Minorities in Hospitality (NSMH)
As part o the NSMH vision, its mission is to educate in order to aid in the recruitment, retention, support, and advancemento minority students in the hospitality industry, and promote multiculturalism. One NSMH program, STRENGTH (Students Taking Responsibility in Engineering New Growth Through Hospitality), is or high school students in Springeld. Hostedby the UMass NSMH Chapter or the past three years, the program aims to build a bridge between students in the Roger L.Putnam Vocational Technical High School in Springeld who have expressed interest in this industry and current hospitalityand tourism students on campus.
Tourism Initiatives
Research projects at Westover, Westeld, and in Holyoke are conducted at a very low cost as demonstration projects or theGreater Springeld Metro Area. Faculty have been involved in legislative meetings locally and in Boston to support regionalunding or tourism initiatives and to report on casino gambling initiatives.
Massachusetts Small Business Development Center
The MSBDC is a ederal-state partnership providing one-to-one ree comprehensive and condential services ocusingon business growth and strategies, nancing and loan assistance, and strategic analysis. The statewide program’s threeintegrated product lines, business advisory services, government contracting, and international trade/export services, aredelivered though a network o skilled proessionals supported by a vast network o ederal, state, educational, and privatesector partners. Low-cost educational training programs targeted to the needs o small businesses are also oered acrossthe state. It also oers nonprot program assessments or writing grants and research projects with multiple stakeholders. The Western Regional Oce is located at the Scibelli Enterprise Center in Springeld.
St. John’s/W.E.B. Du Bois Center
A ve-year strategic alliance between the W.E.B. Du Bois Center and St. Johns Church began in 2011 includes: a Du Bois Trib-ute; the Du Bois Lecture and a Du Bois Birthday celebration. The 2012 events had more than 500 attendees in Springeld.
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