Winter 2002

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USEFULNESS U: THE TRANSLATION CENTER

THEIR CLIENTS ARE GIANT FIRMS like GE and Mass Mutual International and local institutions like Baystate Medical and Yankee Candle, as well as social service agencies and hospitals that serve immigrant communities. They work in 65 different languages and translate everything from Web sites and training manuals to birth certificates. The Translation Center at UMass has a small full-time staff but more than 600 “stringers” on call to decipher nearly any dialect, and an additional cadre of experts – the university’s languages faculty–have neighboring offices in Herter Hall. “For years the Translation Center was just used by professors here at UMass,” says director and comparative literature professor EDWIN GENTZLER. “But then the outside world started to find out about us. Now 80-90 percent of our work is outside the university.” For more information visit www.umass.edu/transcen .

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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

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

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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