Re: AP Students - UMass Website

[Richard Hake <rrhake@EARTHLINK.NET>]

In his 4/23/01 Phys-L post "Re: AP Students,"Jack Uretsky wrote:

"The UMass URL . . . .(evidently referring to the URL
<http://www.physics.umass.edu/research/per> given by me in my Phys-L
post of 4/22/01 as a replacement for the non-responding URL
<http://umperg.physics.umass.edu/> given by John Clement in his
4/21/01 Phys-L post) . . . . (not Amherst, which is a different
school in the same city) is a 1-page ad with a link to the same
defunct site that John Clement gave."

I just checked, yet again, the site
<http://www.physics.umass.edu/research/per>.
A click on "Physics Education Research Group" brings up
<http://umperg.physics.umass.edu/> and material on "Physicists
Studying Learning and Teaching." But occasionally a click on "Physics
Education Research Group" simply directs one back to
<http://www.physics.umass.edu/research/per>.

I think there may be a BUG in the UMass-Amherst website.

Jack is correct in distinguishing UMass from Amherst (more exactly
"Amherst College").

The confusion arises because UMass <http://www.massachusetts.edu/>
has campuses in:
Amherst <http://www.massachusetts.edu/campuses/amherst.html>,
Boston <http://www.massachusetts.edu/campuses/boston.html>,
Dartmouth <http://www.massachusetts.edu/campuses/dartmouth.html>,
Lowell <http://www.massachusetts.edu/campuses/lowell.html>, and
Worchester (Medical School)
     <http://www.massachusetts.edu/campuses/worcester.html>.

UMass aficionados take "Amherst" to mean UMass-Amherst in Amherst,
Mass. and not Amherst College <http://www.amherst.edu/> in Amherst,
Mass.


Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
24245 Hatteras Street, Woodland Hills, CA 91367
<rrhake@earthlink.net>
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake>