Campus researchers have received a two-year, $867,040 grant from the National Science Foundation to build a high-bandwidth optical data network to handle large amounts of computerized research data. The new network is designed to separate research data traffic from the rest of the data traffic on the Amherst campus.
Researchers in fields such as genomics, remote sensing, biostatistics and planetary science, who require high-speed transport of very large amounts of data, will be the major beneficiaries of the new network.
“This project is about how we can improve the computer network
A new high-resolution climate study by campus scientists, the first to apply regional climate models to examine likely near-term changes in temperature and precipitation across the Northeast United States, suggests temperatures are going to be significantly warmer in all seasons in the next 30 years, especially in winter. Also, they project that winters will be wetter, with more rain likely than snow.
Joseph Goldstein, Distinguished Professor in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, is part of a research team trying to produce an iron-nickel alloy that is currently only found in meteorites, for use in making supermagnets. The goal of the research is to develop bulk quantities of commercially viable, environmentally sound supermagnets, which can be used in electric vehicles, wind-turbine generators and many other machines.
Campus officials this week praised the completion of a two-year, $12.3 million laboratory renovation in the Lederle Graduate Research Center, saying the project will enhance research in the biological and physical sciences and make the campus competitive nationally.
The toy drive was conducted in coopeartion with the Veterans of Foreign Wars post in Belchertown and received a boost of support from Alpha Phi Omega, a coed service organization, the Joint Student Engineering Societies, the Student Nurses Association and the Off Campus Student Center.