The graduate dean invites all graduate faculty to attend the final oral examinations for the doctoral candidates scheduled as follows:
Satamita Samanta, Ph.D., Chemistry. Monday, Dec. 17, 9 a.m., 221 Integrated Sciences Building. Dissertation: “Hybrid Push: A Mechanistic Model for Initial Transcription Common to all RNA Polymerases.” Craig Martin, chr.
Andrew Meade, Ph.D., Physics. Thursday, Dec. 20, 1 p.m., 1033 Lederle Graduate Research Tower. Dissertation: “W/Z + Jets Cross Section Ratio, and its Implications for New Physics at the ATLAS Experiment.” Benjamin Brau, chr.
Paige Warren, associate professor of Environmental Conservation, is the co-editor of a recently published book from the University of California Press, “Urban Bird Ecology and Conservation.” Her co-editor is ecologist Christopher Lepczyk of the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The book collects views of leading researchers on cities, one of our most “under-studied environments,” Warren notes.
Gov. Deval Patrick has ordered the U.S. and Commonwealth flags lowered to half-staff on Friday, Dec. 7 from sunrise to sunset in honor of National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.
Seven teams of aspiring entrepreneurs shared $10,000 in prize money from the initial phase of the Innovation Challenge competition held Dec. 4. The awards were based on executive summaries that each team submitted in advance to a panel of judges plus an elevator pitch followed by questions from the judges during the competition.
Poinsettias are springing up in offices across campus, but they’re not being brought by elves — the holiday plants are part of a new horticultural program launched by Landscape Management and employing the skills of students from the Stockbridge School of Agriculture.
The W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies is being awarded this year’s American Historical Association's Equity Award recognizing success in training and placing nearly 100 percent of its minority historians in academia.
Gretchen Gano, a lecturer with the Center for Public Policy and Administration (CPPA), is speaking Dec. 6 at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars In Washington, D.C., about engaging the public in evaluating technology use in science and in social decision-making.
Professor emeritus of Art Jack Coughlin will sign his books at White Square - Fine Books & Art in Easthampton on Saturday, Dec. 8 from 5-7 p.m.