The Faculty Senate on March 14 approved the transfer of the Department of Resource Economics from the Isenberg School of Management to the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Provost James V. Staros says the move was in response to a request from Mark Fuller, dean of the Isenberg School. Daniel Lass, current departmental chairman, told the senate he discussed the issue with Robert Feldman, dean of SBS and that the transfer was agreeable to all parties.
The senate also approved a series of new courses:
Anthropology 256, “Bizarre Foods,” English 268, “American Literature and Culture
In one of the earliest experiments using a humanoid robot to deliver speech and physical therapy to a stroke patient, researchers in Communication Disorders and Computer Science saw notable speech and physical therapy gains and significant improvement in quality of life.
The results of a new national UMass Poll released March 18 show strong public support for an assault weapons ban and a broad consensus in favor of a higher federal minimum wage. Additionally, President Barack Obama enjoys high personal favorability, while House Speaker John Boehner is viewed as equally unfavorable.
A newly formed institute that serves as a campus-wide umbrella to coordinate campus diversity initiatives in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) has received a four-year, $1.6 million award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to fund one-year internships for post-baccalaureate students from underrepresented groups interested in biomedical and biobehavioral research.
When researchers led by Microbiology professor Derek Lovley discovered that the bacterium Geobacter sulfurreducens conducts electricity very effectively along metallic-like “microbial nanowires,” they found physicists quite comfortable with the idea of such a novel biological electron transfer mechanism, but not biologists.