The final meeting for the House of Delegates for the 2011-12
association year will take place at UMass Boston on May 17. The
delegates' business meeting will be preceded by a luncheon and
followed by a celebratory reception. The business meeting will
feature the ceremonial passing of the gavel from MBA President
Richard P. Campbell to President-elect Robert L. Holloway Jr., who
will begin his term in September.
Campbell has convened all of the MBA HOD meetings this
association year at UMass campuses across the state.
The University of Massachusetts Boston is the second-largest
campus in the UMass system after UMass Amherst. Engaging a student
body of nearly 16,000 undergraduate and graduate students, the
university's eight colleges offer more than 100 undergraduate
programs and 50 graduate programs. The Boston campus is a national
model of excellence for urban public universities, blending a
small-college experience with the extensive resources of a major
research university.
UMass Boston dedicates its resources to the environment and the
well-being of citizens of the greater Boston community and beyond.
The university's creative innovations have been nationally
recognized.
In 2010, UMass Boston was awarded a $13.7 million U54 grant by
the National Institutes of Health, providing the UMass Boston-Dana
Farber/Harvard Cancer Center Partnership to further strengthen the
country's national cancer research program. In February 2012, UMass
Boston professor of biology Kamal Bawa, an expert in conservation
biology, was named the 2012 recipient of the Gunnerus
Sustainability Award, the world's first major international award
for work on
sustainability.