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- Jun 10, 2009 Dean Jim Kurose instrumental in partnership for proposed $100 M green high performance computing center in Holyoke.
- Jun 8, 2009 David Boutt, Geosciences, to study deepest-ever subsurface fluids at premier Pacific earthquake-birthing zone.
- Jun 5, 2009 Houjun Mo, Astronomy, received $428,000 NSF grant to study distribution of approximately 80 percent of “missing” mass in universe.
- Jun 3, 2009 Julie Brigham-Grette, Geosciences, returned from expedition to obtain sediment core samples from ancient Siberian lake that provide unique history of climate change over 3 million years.
- Jun 2, 2009 William Irvine, Astronomy, selected to Board of International Astronomical Union’s Division III.
- May 28, 2009 UMass receives $16 million DOE award to create Polymer-based Materials for Harvesting Solar Energy Center, co-directed by Paul Lahti, Chemistry and Thomas Russell, Polymer Science & Engineering
- May 26, 2009 Harry Bermudez, Polymer Science & Engineering, received NSF CAREER Award for research on "Controlling Mechanisms of Viral Self-Assembly and Stability."
- May 20, 2009 Grant Wilson, Astronomy, uses special camera, AzTEC, to image ultra-massive galaxies thought to form backbone of early galaxies.
- May 13, 2009 Greg Tew, Polymer Science & Engineering, received $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations grant from Gates Foundation to support research for novel cures for infectious diseases
- May 13, 2009 Kevin Fu, Computer Science, in Business Week about new technologies supported by mobile telephones
- May 12, 2009 Nicholas Balascio, PhD student in Geosciences, received Fulbright grant to study Arctic lakes in northern Norway
- May 8, 2009 Onur Sinan Yordem, PhD student in Polymer Science & Engineering, awarded James MacKenzie Graduate Scholarship from the Society of Plastic Engineers
- May 6, 2009 Kevin Early, PhD student in Chemistry, team member of QD Tech, winner of $35,000 grand prize in Innovation Challenge competition
- May 6, 2009 Three seniors from NSM, Ivan Bercovich, Christopher Meaden, and Matthew Sloan, will receive 21st Century Leaders awards
- May 4, 2009 Computer Science department ties for 20th best grad program in U.S. News and World Report rankings
- Apr 28, 2009 Andrea R. Nahmod, Mathematics & Statistics, awarded Radcliffe fellowship for research on analysis of nonlinear dispersive wave phenomena
- Apr 27, 2009 Andrew McCallum, Computer Science, elected Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
- Apr 26, 2009 Nexi, MIT robot designed to express human emotions, uses chassis based on UMass’s Ubot5
- Apr 21, 2009 Robert Hallock, Physics, elected chairman of Commission C-5 of International Union of Pure and Applied Physics
- Apr 21, 2009 Scott Garman, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, receives UMass Amherst Distinguished Teaching Award.
- Apr 21, 2009 Sophomore Eric Johnson, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, awarded $3,000 grant by American Society of Plant Biologists.
- Apr 20, 2009 R. Manmatha, Computer Science, grad student Shaolei Feng, and Nicholas Howe, Smith College, develop digitized method to read handwriting
- Apr 13, 2009 John F. Donoghue, Physics, named Outstanding Referee by American Physical Society
- Apr 13, 2009 Michael Foley, 1972, received Distinguished Alumni Service Award.
- Apr 10, 2009 Five Computer Science graduate students received NSF and NASA fellowships and grants from Yahoo!s KSC program
- Apr 10, 2009 Science cover story features research by Lila Gierasch, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and grad student Robert Smoc, identifying knowledge gaps about how proteins transmit cellular signals
- Apr 9, 2009 UMass Amherst one of four schools working with Yahoo on cloud computing systems and applications
- Mar 31, 2009 Julian Tyson, Chemistry, and colleagues develop first-ever accurate test for arsenic compounds in soil
- Mar 31, 2009 Vincent Rotello and grad student Bappaditya Samanta, Chemistry, use magnetic particles to help free-floating human cells form chains
- Mar 24, 2009 Craig Martin, Chemistry, awarded special Dreyfus Foundation grant for 3-D interactive Molecular Playground for ISB
- Mar 24, 2009 Duncan Irschick, Biology, awarded $291,589 NIH grant to expand studies of human motor development
- Mar 20, 2009 Thai Thayumanavan, Chemistry, is developing ways to deliver drugs using specialized polymers that respond to multiple conditions
- Mar 19, 2009 Climate modeling of Antarctic ice sheets by Rob DeConto, Geosciences, published in Nature, featured in New York Times
- Mar 19, 2009 Kevin Fu, Computer Science, discusses privacy issues of contactless credit cards
- Mar 17, 2009 Biology major Bryan St. Germain wins 2008 Scanlon Student Employee of the Year Award
- Mar 16, 2009 Boston Globe headlines Julie Brigham-Grette, Geosciences, PI, and doctoral student Kenna Wilkie, on the opening day of an international climate expedition to extract core representing 3.6 million years of sediment history from frozen lake in Siberia
- Mar 16, 2009 Lynn Margulis, Geosciences, gives extensive interview on her evolutionary views
- Mar 2, 2009 Michael Williams, Geosciences, co-PI on world’s largest interpretive geosciences exhibit, Grand Canyon’s Trail of Time, to open in 2010
- Feb 26, 2009 Stephen Burns, Geosciences, identifies cause of 9,000-year-old weather anomaly in Brazil in Nature Geoscience
- Feb 23, 2009 Documentary film by Edward Klekowski, Biology (emeritus), on WWI ambulance corps aired on on WBGY
- Feb 23, 2009 R. Mark Leckie, Geosciences, assesses readiness of refurbished ocean research vessel
- Feb 20, 2009 Raymond Bradley and Julie Brigham-Grette, Geosciences, featured on NSF’s "To What Degree? What science is telling us about climate change"
- Feb 20, 2009 Jon Machta, Physics, and Murugappan Muthukumar, Polymer Science & Engineering, organized international workshop on Monte Carlo computations
- Feb 19, 2009 Bruce Croft and 2 PhD alums from Computer Science, publish new undergraduate textbook on search engines
- Feb 19, 2009 Duncan Irschick, Biology, received $170,000 NIH grant for kinetic studies
- Feb 19, 2009 Tom Russell, Polymer Science & Engineering, in national news for developing new method for defect-free thin polymer films
- Feb 19, 2009 Results by Vincent Rotello and PhD student Bappaditya Samanta, Chemistry, to use magnetic field to produce self-assembly in nanostructures published in Nature
- Feb 17, 2009 Kevin Fu, Computer Science, awarded Sloan Research Fellowship
- Feb 17, 2009 Egor Babaev, Physics, predicted discovery of new type of superconductor
- Feb 13, 2009 Duncan Irschick, Biology, and Mount Holyoke’s Gary Gillis, examine the pros and cons of lizard escape mechanisms
- Feb 13, 2009 Michele Cooke, Geosciences, and PhD student Laura Dair, offer more precise mode of earthquake fault
- Feb 12, 2009 Lynn Margulis, Distinguished Professor, Geosciences, awarded Darwin-Wallace Medal from Linnean Society
- Feb 11, 2009 Nanoparticles article by Vincent Rotello, Chemistry, one of Advanced Materials most downloaded papers in 2008
- Feb 11, 2009 Victor Lesser, Computer Science, received International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Award for Research Excellence
- Feb 10, 2009 Faculty from Computer Science and Legal Studies to host NSF workshop on dispute resolution in health care
- Feb 9, 2009 James M. Allan, Computer Science, received $75,000 2008 IBM Open Collaborative Faculty Grant
- Feb 9, 2009 Ryan Hayward, Polymer Science and Engineering, received $100,000 American Chemical Society grant for Supramolecular Assembly of Polymers at Interfaces
- Jan 30, 2009 Wei-lih Lee, Biology, publishes research on new findings for how cells organize chromosomes in mitosis in Current Biology
- Jan 29, 2009 Dhandapani “DV” Venkataraman, Chemistry, has written one of the top 20 Most Cited papers in ACS’s Organic Letters
- Jan 25, 2009 Kevin Fu, Computer Science, in New York Times article about using cell phones as credit cards
- Jan 23, 2009 Raymond Bradley, Geosciences, featured in USA Today on global warming and tree death
- Jan 23, 2009 Todd Emrick, Polymer Science & Engineering, received SciDose LLC $50,000 grant
- Jan 22, 2009 Patricia Wadsworth, Biology, receives Murray Professorship to expand undergraduate research opportunities for biology honors students
- Jan 22, 2009 UMass system is national leader in technology transfer—ranks in top 15 national universities
- Jan 19, 2009 Mauro Giavalisco, Astronomy, received Space Telescope Science Institute $21,480 grant to study luminous galaxies
- Jan 16, 2009 Todd Emrick and Alfred Crosby, Polymer Science & Engingeering, lead Polymer Research Conference
- Jan 12, 2009 Daniel Wang, Astronomy, featured on MSNBC.com discussing black holes and exploding supernovas
- Jan 12, 2009 15 seniors majoring in the life sciences have received 2008-2009 Junior Fellows Awards for independent research projects
- Jan 9, 2009 James Allan, Computer Science, selected to partners with Yahoo! on BOSS (Build your Own Search Service)
- Jan 5, 2009 Hava Siegelmann, Computer Science, received $175,000 Office of Naval Research grant for representation in adaptive memory
