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Re: AP Students - UMass Website



Not only does UMass have several locations, but the town of
Westfield has five colleges in the vicinity:
UMassAmherst
Amherst College
Smith College
Mount Holyoake
Hampshire College.

Looking at libraries can be an indicator of college strengths
(statistical pitfalls or not!)

These colleges share a library catalog system.
Reviewing Amherst and UmassAmherst for counts of reference works
by various authors, I see that Amherst keeps up well with UMassAmherst
in terms of Feynman, Newton, Einstein - not less than 95% of the
latter's holding: but in comparing titles for Plato, Amherst scores
hundreds of counts more than UMasAmherst. I assume this represents
a liberal arts strength.

Brian

At 07:54 4/23/01 -0700, Richard Hake wrote:
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>


brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net> Altus OK
Eureka!