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
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.
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.
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.
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.