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The College of Natural Sciences & Mathematics is now officially the College of Natural Sciences (CNS). For more information, please go to http://www.cns.umass.edu.

NSM Convocation

September 2007

In the News

Dean Jim Kurose instrumental in partnership for proposed $100 M green high performance computing center in Holyoke.
Houjun Mo, Astronomy, received $428,000 NSF grant to study distribution of approximately 80 percent of “missing” mass in universe.
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.
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
Harry Bermudez, Polymer Science & Engineering, received NSF CAREER Award for research on "Controlling Mechanisms of Viral Self-Assembly and Stability."
Grant Wilson, Astronomy, uses special camera, AzTEC, to image ultra-massive galaxies thought to form backbone of early galaxies.
Greg Tew, Polymer Science & Engineering, received $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations grant from Gates Foundation to support research for novel cures for infectious diseases
Kevin Fu, Computer Science, in Business Week about new technologies supported by mobile telephones
Nicholas Balascio, PhD student in Geosciences, received Fulbright grant to study Arctic lakes in northern Norway
Kevin Early, PhD student in Chemistry, team member of QD Tech, winner of $35,000 grand prize in Innovation Challenge competition
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