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DEPT. OF DAMP DISTINCTIONS

"A GREAT WAY TO GO OUT" - The Minuteman water polo team with Chancellor Marcellette Williams before departing for the NCCA Final Four in November. (For larger view of Stan Sherer photo, click in right navigation.) UMASS WAS FOURTH IN THE nation in men’s water polo last fall – a letdown only in the context of a Final Four tournament. Said senior GREG TRAYER, “For those of us who played our final game, it was a great way to go out”. . . The UMass men's water polo site is at http://umassathletics.fansonly.com/sports/m-wpolo/umas-m-wpolo-body.html . MEANWHILE, ON THE SCIENCE FRONT, the latest Ig Nobel Award of the Annals of Improbable Research has been presented to engineering prof DAVID SCHMIDT for a widely reported study on why shower curtains billow inward. Wearing a shower cap to accept the prize in a ceremony at Harvard in October, Schmidt said that computational fluid dynamics may not interest most people, “but everybody has a shower.” For more on Professor Schmidt and shower curtains, visit http://www.ecs.umass.edu/mie/ .

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Truth, reconciliation, action

TRUTH: larger image

COMMENCEMENT 2001: a catchup

IN A HEARTBEAT: a faculty response to September 11

LOSSES, RESPONSES: ten alumni lost; six alums' response

RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY: Coolidge Bridge project underway

RECONSTRUCTIVE: larger image

HIGHLIGHTS: rich fish - sounds grotty, but pogy oil’s good for you

Fish: larger image

Damp distinctions: water polo fourth in U.S., shower research scores Ig Nobel

Damp distinctions: larger image

Usefulness U: the Translation Center

Plus: Acid rain update, UMass bragging rights, and the soles of insects