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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.

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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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