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NSM highlights from 2006 & before

  • Dec 25, 2006  Nominations open for 21st Century Leaders Award
  • Dec 15, 2006  Scientists spy on protein charged with building nerve-muscle connections
  • Dec 9, 2006  New directory of research resources available
  • Dec 8, 2006  An article by Al Crosby, Polymer Sciences and Engineering, graced cover of Advanced Materials and highlighted in Nature
  • Dec 8, 2006  BioVeris Corp. funds up to $600,000 for research on Chlamydia vaccine
  • Dec 5, 2006  Major piece of telescope put into place
  • Dec 1, 2006  Gary Huang, graduate student in Computer Science, first recipient of Robin Popplestone Fellowship in Robotics & Artificial Intelligence
  • Dec 1, 2006  The NSF has ranked the chemistry research enterprise at UMass Amherst 15th in the nation in R&D expenditures
  • Dec 1, 2006  The Large Millimeter Telescope begins 2-year test period
  • Dec 1, 2006  Julie Brigham-Grette, Geosciences, will lead international team of scientists on an $8 M NSF funded expedition Siberian polar lake
  • Dec 1, 2006  Michele Cooke, Geosciences, develops new, more accurate earthquake model
  • Dec 1, 2006  Linda Slakey, retired NSM Dean and professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, will lead NSF's Division of Undergraduate Education
  • Dec 1, 2006  Dan Chase, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, awarded a 2006-2008 Smith Family New Investigator Award from the Medical Foundation
  • Dec 1, 2006  Ana Caicedo, Biology, co-PI on $1.1 M NSF grant to study evolutionary genomics of weedy rice
  • Dec 1, 2006  Mike Barnes and Dhandapani Venkataraman (DV), Chemistry, et al. report the first observation of chiral (mirror image) effects with single molecules
  • Dec 1, 2006  George Avrunin, Mathematics and Statistics, named Distinguished Scientist by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
  • Dec 1, 2006  Eduardo Cattani, Mathematics and Statistics, appointed to the American Mathematical Society's Committee on Human Rights of Mathematicians
  • Dec 1, 2006  Vince Rotello, Chemistry, delivers Distinguished Faculty Lecture
  • Nov 29, 2006  Gerace awarded Fulbright to teach in South Africa
  • Nov 27, 2006  Alumnus Dandamudi (Vishnu) Rao (Ph.D. 1972, Physics) endows graduate student scholarship in Biological Physics
  • Nov 22, 2006  Barto elected IEEE fellow
  • Nov 17, 2006  ennie Traschen and Nikolay Prokof'ev, Physics, elected as 2006 APS Fellows
  • Nov 16, 2006  Rotello was named to the Charles A. Goessmann Chair in Chemistry
  • Nov 15, 2006  Linda Slakey, retired NSM Dean and professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, will lead NSF's Division of Undergraduate Education
  • Oct 23, 2006  Hughes leads colloquium on gravitational-wave physics
  • Oct 21, 2006  Russell elected to Materials Research Society board
  • Oct 21, 2006  Campus named 'Microsoft IT Showcase School'
  • Oct 20, 2006  Platt calls for independent review of Gulf Coast recovery efforts
  • Oct 16, 2006  American Chemical Society leader is Mahoney Seminar speaker
  • Oct 13, 2006  Computer scientists take aim at securities fraud
  • Oct 9, 2006  Bromery to give Geology lecture
  • Oct 9, 2006  Livermore Lab official to speak on homeland security
  • Oct 4, 2006  Annual Plant Biology symposium-"Chemical Plants: Manipulating Plant Metabolism to Improve Health and Nutrition"
  • Sep 30, 2006  Chemistry lab to be named for George R. Richason, Jr. -The Chemistry Department will celebrate the naming of the George R. Richason, Jr. Laboratory during Homecoming Weekend on Friday, Oct. 14, from 3-5 p.m.
  • Sep 22, 2006  William J. MacKnight-Professor Emeritus of Polymer Science and Engineering chosen for American Chemical Society prize
  • Sep 22, 2006  Society of Plastic Engineers to honor Farris
  • Sep 16, 2006  Computer Science Web-Based Homework Package Developed at UMass Amherst Goes National
  • Sep 9, 2006  Research takes Geology student to Arctic extremes
  • Sep 6, 2006  "Six Degrees of Separation" Theory Explained in New Algorithm by UMass Amherst Researchers
  • Sep 4, 2006  Gierasch chosen for American Chemical Society prize
  • Sep 2, 2006  4 chosen to give Distinguished Faculty Lectures
  • Sep 1, 2006  Earthquake Models for Los Angeles Basin Assessed by Michele Cooke
  • Sep 1, 2006  UMass Announces Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series
    • John F. Donoghue, department of physics, Monday, Sept. 26, 2005
    • Robert A. Zimmermann, department of biochemistry & molecular biology, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2006
  • Sep 1, 2006  Lila Gierasch, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, recipient of 2.5 M 2006 NIH Director's Pioneer Award
  • Sep 1, 2006  Streaming video of ISB groundbreaking ceremony
  • Sep 1, 2006  Hava Siegelmann, computer science, explains how to overcome jet lag
  • Sep 1, 2006  John Nambu, Biology, awarded almost $1 M from NIH to study fruit fly aging
  • Sep 1, 2006  Scott Auerbach, Chemistry, received a $274,000 NSF award to study multiscale modeling of biofuel catalysts
  • Sep 1, 2006  Tobias Baskin, Biology, receives $360,000 DOE for research on cellulose
  • Sep 1, 2006  Patricia Bianconi, chemistry, receives $25,000 Mass Tech Transfer grant for a diamond fabrication study
  • Sep 1, 2006  Todd Emrick, Polymer Science and Engineering, receives $1.2 million NIRT grant for nanoparticle assembly for robust functional materials
  • Sep 1, 2006  NSM's new Center for Renewable Energy Science and Technology (Mass-CREST) receives $200,000 in funding from UMass President Jack M. Wilson's Science and Technology Initiatives Fund
  • Aug 24, 2006  Scott Garman Receives $150,000 From Hood Foundation To Study Fabry Disease
  • Aug 22, 2006  Gov. Romney Visits Campus, Meets Researchers
  • Aug 12, 2006  D. Venkataramanawarded technology development grant
  • Aug 10, 2006  UMass Amherst Enters Partnership With Bioveris Corporation To Develop Chlamydia Vaccine
  • Aug 2, 2006  George Langford named dean of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
  • Aug 1, 2006  September 8 groundbreaking set for Integrated Science Building
  • Aug 1, 2006  Tobias Baskin, Biology, awarded Botanical Society of America's Pelton Award
  • Aug 1, 2006  Scott Garman, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, receives $150,000 Charles H. Hood Foundation Grant
  • Aug 1, 2006  Elsbeth Walker Awarded a USDA Grant
  • Aug 1, 2006  William Gerace Receives Fulbright Award
  • Jul 28, 2006  Farris honored for teaching and research
  • Jul 18, 2006  UMass Amherst Receives Clare Booth Luce Doctoral Fellowships For Women in Sciences, Engineering
  • Jul 12, 2006  Deaf High School Students Explore Faults in the Field Under Guidance of UMass Amherst Geologist
  • Jul 7, 2006  UMass Amherst Receives $3.1 Million Grant For New Ph.D. Training in Nanotechnology
  • Jun 26, 2006  Tuomas Sandholm (Ph.D. '96, Computer Science) receives 2006 AAAI Deployed Application Award
  • Jun 22, 2006  Geoscientist Ray Bradley's research affirmed by new NAS report
  • Jun 21, 2006  NSM researchers awarded technology commercialization grants
  • Jun 20, 2006  Biology awarded $1.6 million HHMI grant to redesign undergraduate program
  • Jun 9, 2006  Andrew McCallum, Computer Science shares $400,000 NSF grant to develop web-based search tool
  • Jun 9, 2006  Brian Conz, PhD student in Geosciences, awarded Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research grant to Guatemala
  • Jun 8, 2006  Bruce Croft, Computer Science, awarded a Microsoft Live Labs grant
  • Jun 6, 2006  Lila Gierasch, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, named Distinguished Professor
  • Jun 5, 2006  Lecturer Receives Grant. Michael Dolan, Biology, has received a $330,000 NASA grant to continue the NASA Planetary Biology Internship Program
  • Jun 2, 2006  Eduardo Cattani of UMass Amherst Receives Fulbright Award to Teach, Conduct Math Research in Argentina
  • May 25, 2006  David Lawrence, who graduated with honors in Physics, was selected to give the undergraduate commencement address
  • May 25, 2006  William E. Mahoney '55 Chemistry, retired business executive and current adjunct professor of Chemistry receives University's Distinguished Achievement Award
  • May 23, 2006  Martin Weinberg, Neal Katz and Houjun Mo, astronomy, and Eliot Moss, computer science, received $714,101 from NASA for their project "Enabling Bayesian inference for the astronomy masses"
  • May 22, 2006  Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) receives 2006 Maria and Eric Muhlmann Award
  • May 19, 2006  Faculty Senate at UMass Amherst Officially Approves MassNanoTech Institute
  • May 16, 2006  Katherine Best, entering Ph.D. candidate in polymer science and engineering, receives Clare Boothe Luce Fellowship
  • May 11, 2006  Biologist Randall Phillis received 2006 University's Distinguished Teaching Award
  • May 11, 2006  Biology professor Sandra Petersen received nearly $2 million from the NIH for hormone research
  • May 10, 2006  Senior Jocelyn Scheintaub, chemistry/English is Fulbright Scholar
  • May 10, 2006  Scientific Reasoning Research Institute at UMass Amherst Gets $5 Million from NSF
  • May 9, 2006  2005-06 University Faculty Awards
  • May 9, 2006  21st Century Scholars To Be Recognized at UMass Amherst Undergraduate Commencement May 22
  • May 6, 2006  Udall Scholarship Awarded to UMass Amherst Biology Major Simon Miner
  • May 3, 2006  Susan Cumberledge, biochemistry and molecular biology, is a leader in developing the new Iraqi Virtual Science Library
  • May 2, 2006  Biologist Karen O'Connor named 2006 University Outstanding Academic Advisor
  • May 1, 2006  Lou Roberts, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, co-PI for $40,000 Dreyfus Foundation Award
  • Apr 29, 2006  Vincent Rotello and Mark Tuominen Study the Potential of Biologically Controlled Nanoparticles
  • Apr 27, 2006  Senior Physics Major David Lawrence Will Be Student Speaker at UMass Amherst Undergraduate
  • Apr 25, 2006  Ph.D. student in Chemistry received a Biophysical Society Student Research Achievement Award
  • Apr 24, 2006  New Nanomanufacturing Research Center gets $16 million NSF grant
  • Apr 23, 2006  Polymer Scientist Develops New Antimicrobial Compound
  • Apr 15, 2006  Four Biology undergraduates receive fellowships from the Massachusetts Space Grant Consortium
  • Apr 14, 2006  Applied Mathematics Student named Goldwater Scholar
  • Apr 14, 2006  The graduate program in Computer Science is ranked 25th in the countryfrom U.S. News
  • Apr 14, 2006  Juniors Matt Marzilli (computer science/physics) and John Debardeleben (physics/astronomy) receive Goldwater Scholarships
  • Apr 13, 2006  Mathematician William Meeks Named Guggenheim Fellow
  • Apr 12, 2006  Chemist Jeanne Hardy Receives Beckman Young Investigator Award
  • Apr 10, 2006  Mathematician Nate Whitaker received the University's Distinguished Community Education Award for establishing the AIMS program, an enrichment program for African American students in Amherst schools
  • Apr 8, 2006  Grant renewed for alliance to boost ranks of minority science faculty
  • Apr 7, 2006  Alumni Association to honor Dr. David J. Mazzo (Chem '84) at State House ceremony
  • Apr 6, 2006  Riley to appear on new PBS series
  • Apr 4, 2006  Riley awarded $900k grant to study antibiotic resistance
  • Apr 3, 2006  P. Anandan (Ph.D. '87, Computer Science) receives UMass Amherst Distinguished Alumni Award
  • Mar 30, 2006  Symposium to discuss energy for the 21st century
  • Mar 28, 2006  Lila Gierasch, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Chemistry, received the 2006 Olin Medal from the American Chemical Society
  • Mar 28, 2006  New endowed Robin Popplestone Fellowship in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence provides a scholarship to a first year Computer Science graduate student
  • Mar 28, 2006  Russell to give Distinguished Faculty Lecture
  • Mar 14, 2006  Chemists awarded $1.3 million grant to detect harmful agents
  • Mar 7, 2006  NSF award supports Corner's research on powering mobile computers
  • Feb 24, 2006  Tew receives $515,000 CAREER award from NSF
  • Feb 23, 2006  Computer Science student wins Anita Borg scholarship
  • Feb 21, 2006  Three Computer Science faculty receive NSF CAREER Awards
  • Feb 21, 2006  Chris Pal, Computer Science, received two $50,000 awards Microsoft Corp
  • Feb 18, 2006  Isenbergs give $1m for professorship in Integrative Environmental Science
  • Feb 17, 2006  Wilson renews $1 million Science and Technology Initiatives Fund
  • Feb 17, 2006  NSF scholarships for future math/science teachers
  • Feb 10, 2006  Two entering Ph.D. students receive Verizon "Rising Star" Fellowships
  • Feb 8, 2006  Burrell to read from new book at Odyssey
  • Feb 3, 2006  Two Computer Science PhD students receive Microsoft Research Fellowships
  • Jan 31, 2006  Researchers teaching computers to be better teachers
  • Jan 30, 2006  Biologist Elizabeth Dumont and mechanical engineer Ian Grosse receive $333,000 NSF grant to study bat biting biomechanics
  • Jan 24, 2006  Gaubatz advises Shanghai officials on preparations for Expo 2010
  • Jan 11, 2006  10 slots open in Polymer Science workshop for high school students
  • Jan 11, 2006  Researchers developing online mediation tools for federal agency
  • Jan 6, 2006  Professor Krishna S. Kumar elected as Fellow in the American Physical Society as a member of the Division of Nuclear Physics
  • Dec 25, 2005  Nominations open for 21st Century Leaders Award
  • Dec 15, 2005  Scientists spy on protein charged with building nerve–muscle connections
  • Dec 9, 2005  New directory of research resources available
  • Dec 8, 2005  BioVeris Corp. funds up to $600,000 for research on Chlamydia vaccine
  • Dec 5, 2005  Major piece of telescope put into place
  • Nov 29, 2005  Gerace awarded Fulbright to teach in South Africa
  • Nov 22, 2005  Barto elected IEEE fellow
  • Nov 16, 2005  Rotello was named to the Charles A. Goessmann Chair in Chemistry
  • Oct 23, 2005  Hughes leads colloquium on gravitational-wave physics
  • Oct 21, 2005  Russell elected to Materials Research Society board
  • Oct 21, 2005  Campus named 'Microsoft IT Showcase School'
  • Oct 20, 2005  Platt calls for independent review of Gulf Coast recovery efforts
  • Oct 16, 2005  American Chemical Society leader is Mahoney Seminar speaker
  • Oct 13, 2005  Computer scientists take aim at securities fraud
  • Oct 9, 2005  Bromery to give Geology lecture
  • Oct 9, 2005  Livermore Lab official to speak on homeland security
  • Oct 4, 2005  Annual Plant Biology symposium-"Chemical Plants: Manipulating Plant Metabolism to Improve Health and Nutrition"
  • May 7, 2004  Biology faculty member Willie Bemis Selected as one of the 2004-2005 TEACHnology Fellows