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Campus hosts Muskie fellows from Armenia and Georgia

Two international students are enrolled in the master’s degree program in Public Policy and Administration through the U.S. Department of State’s Edmund S. Muskie Graduate Fellowship Program.
 
Hasmik Hayrapetyan from Armenia and Nodar Kereselidze of Georgia are expected to be on campus for two years to complete their degrees.
 
By selecting emerging leaders from 12 countries of the former Soviet Union, the Muskie Program aims to promote mutual understanding, build democracy and foster the transition to market economies in Eurasia and Central Asia through intensive academic study and

15 students awarded Gilman Scholarships for study abroad

Fifteen students are studying abroad this fall with Gilman Scholarships in Africa, Asia, Europe and South America. These results place UMass Amherst fourth in the U.S. behind the University of California, Berkeley, San Francisco State and University of California, Santa Barbara.
 
A total of 2,685 undergraduates from around the country applied for this federal scholarship targeted towards Pell Grant recipients. Nearly 1,200 scholarships were awarded, a selection rate of about 42 percent.

Peyton attacks breast cancer by studying the disease on biomaterials that act like human tissues

Shelly Peyton, assistant professor of Chemical Engineering, says scientists know that breast cancer will spread to many different types of tissues in the body, and that this migration is the key reason the cancer is deadly. What they don’t know is why some forms of the cancer move to the brain, while others seek out bone or lung tissues.
 
Peyton is now using a three-year, $590,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study how different types of breast cancer interact with different human tissues – tissues she and her research team can create in the laboratory to study how the

Doctoral students awarded Hluchyj Fellowships

Doctoral students Akshaya Shanmugam and Jalil Johnson have been awarded the 2012-13 Hluchyj Fellowship, which annually supports two graduate students in in the College of Engineering and the School of Nursing. The fellowship provides students with stipends so they can conduct interdisciplinary research in the area of clinical healthcare.
 
Michael Hluchyj, a 1979 graduate of the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department, and his wife Theresa, a 1977 alumna of the School of Nursing, created the graduate fellowship in 2008.
 
Since its creation, 10 scholars have been assisted by this

Caret plans bus tour to highlight University's contributions to state

President Robert Caret is planning a four-day, 500-mile bus tour next week to visit alumni start-ups, business incubators and UMass research centers to highlight 150 years of the University’s academic excellence and economic contributions since the signing of the Morrill Land Grant Act.
 
Starting in western Massachusetts on Oct. 1, Caret will visit the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center in Holyoke, the Marine Research Station in Gloucester, the Cranberry Station in East Wareham and UMass Dartmouth’s MBA program at Cape Cod Community College.

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