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The University of Massachusetts Amherst today celebrated the official opening of the $125 million state-of-the-art Computer Science Laboratories at Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences ...

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The new Computer Science Laboratories (CSL) building has earned Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum certification, the first building on campus to achieve that distinction.