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By PEGGY AULISIO
Standard Times correspondent
"Hand washing can prevent so many infections," said Julianne Duarte.
She and Erica Pine, both seniors at UMass, said they also promoted hand washing when they held a flu clinic a few weeks before that. They said it is especially important for people to wash their hands often and thoroughly during flu season. More.
(This article was first published in the Standard-Times of By PHIL DEVITT
Standard-Times Correspondent
Now he's sharing the secret.
In a new online manual, UMass Dartmouth physics professor Gaurav Khanna explains step by step how to retool the popular video game system into a sophisticated computer capable of solving complex equations in seconds.
"I hear from people who say it's nice to see that something they spend time entertaining themselves with you can do real science with," Dr. Khanna said. More
Here's an interesting story from today's New Bedford Standard Times:
Washington, D.C., is a city for politics. It is also a city for people to chase their dreams. Seventeen young graduates of UMass Dartmouth, listed as "friends" on a Facebook group for university alumni, are chasing their dreams in the nation's capital.
But they don't really know each other. They were invited to join the UMass Dartmouth-Washington DC Alumni Club on Facebook by friends of friends or by their friend's friend's friend.
Some of them were willing to share their stories of life in the capital city, to talk about their dreams and to reflect on whether the real world is what they expected.
