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Summer 2003

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The pervasive presence of microbes

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Our giant in hedge funds

Around the Pond

From ashes to art




	photo by Paul Carew

IN MAY, A POIGNANT ART exhibit was mounted at Durfee Conservatory. Called “Persistence of Steel: Sculptures from the UMass Foundry,” the show had been planned as a year-end exhibit of student work. Then it became something like a memorial. The foundry of the exhibit’s title is no more. Destroyed in a fire on April 22, the wooden stucture, which had an alarm but no sprinkler system, housed classes in metal working. Fortunately, no one was in the 140-year-old building when fire engulfed it around 8 p.m.

The sculpture exhibit includes the piece, above, by Hilary Milens, assembled from fragments that survived the fire. But along with art, hope rises from the ashes. A bond issue approved in late May earmarks $13.8 million for a new art building.

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