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November 19th 2009
Greetings Advocates,
do you wish you were here? UMass Amherst is on Flickr. See your favorite places and some familiar faces.
The Update won't publish next week, due to the Thanksgiving day holiday.
Mark your calendars and get your tickets now...for the UMass Minutemen v the University of Memphis Tigers at the TD Bank Boston Garden -- December 19th 2009! Cheer on the Minutemen.
Safe travels there and back again. Many thanks for your support.
UMA Connects to the Commonwealth
- The 50 Best Inventions of 2009 Professor Derek Lovley and his team of researchers at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst have engineered a strain of Geobacter that's eight times as efficient as other strains at producing power.
- Soy May Lower Risk Of Diabetes, Study Says Based on research conducted at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, it appears that adding soy to one’s diet may result in a reduced risk of developing diabetes and in improved insulin sensitivity.
- Isenberg School researchers advise Food Bank on supply chain management During a nine-month project, Senay Solak, assistant professor of Operations Management, and MBA candidate Justin Fisher used supply chain modeling to develop distribution alternatives for the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts and the 191 agencies it serves.
- Forbes develops system to 'detonate' cancer-killing TRAIL inside tumors on command The treatment improved the 30-day survival time of mice with mammary tumors from zero to 100 percent.
UMass People
- Tuition gift after highest price paid Trovato, a 28-year-old who played minor league hockey before quitting to work at a Boston venture capital firm and devote more time to the legacy fund, said he is heartened by the strong public support for his cause.
- Mexico Indian Remains Returned From NY for Burial Cut marks on the bones indicated troops took ears as trophies, said Perez, a professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
- Ken Ober, 52, host of MTV's 'Remote Control' Ober was born on July 3, 1957, in Brookline, Mass., and grew up in Hartford. After graduating from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1980, he began performing standup comedy based primarily in New York.
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