The U.S. Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women has awarded $300,000 to the Amherst Police Department that will fund several positions focused on dealing with cases of sexual and domestic violence.
The grant was obtained in collaboration with the UMass Police Department, the campus’s Center for Women and Community (CWC) and the Northampton Police Department.
The grant will continue to fund a full-time civilian advocate, Ilana Gerjuoy, who currently works on-site with the Amherst and UMass police departments assisting survivors of domestic and sexual violence.
The UMass Amherst Permaculture Initiative recently learned that its recent video, part three of a series intended to tell the permaculture story in an engaging way to a wide audience, has been picked up by a national television program, “Real Green.” It will be televised across the country on the weekend of Nov. 17-18 and will air locally on WGGB Channel 40 in Springfield at 6 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 18. 
It may seem like common sense that the quality of online video streaming affects how willing viewers are to watch videos at a website. But until Computer Science researcher Ramesh Sitaraman and collaborators at Akamai developed a way to rigorously study the question, no one had been able to scientifically test the assumption.
Recently a research team led by Wei-lih Lee, associate professor of Biology, identified a new molecular player in asymmetric cell division, a regulatory protein named She1 whose role in chromosome- and spindle positioning wasn’t known before. Asymmetric cell division is important in the self-renewal of stem cells and because it ensures that daughter cells have different fates and functions.
Jing Hao, doctoral student in Health Policy and Management in the School of Public Health and Health Sciences, has been awarded the 2012 American Public Health Association (APHA) Student Presentation Award.