The graduate dean invites all graduate faculty to attend the final oral examinations for the doctoral candidates scheduled as follows:
Karen Riska, Ph.D., Kinesiology. Monday, June 3, 8 a.m., 153 Totman. Dissertation: “The Role of the Extracellular Matrix in Mediating Muscle Soreness.” Barry Braun, chr.
Daniel Pope, Ph.D., Comparative Literature. Monday, June 3, 3 p.m., 301 Herter Hall. Dissertation: “Enigmatic Realism: Doing Justice through Postmodern Use of Photography and First-Person Figuration in the Works of Sebald, Marías, and Hemon.” William Moebius, chr.
Max Lein, Ph.D., Chemistry.
Cherington, who is executive vice president/general manager of the Boston Red Sox, will be the evening’s principal honoree. Ambroz, an associate with J.P. Morgan Securities, will receive Isenberg’s Young Alumni Award.
Chemical engineering researchers Wei Fan, Paul Dauenhauer and colleagues report this week that they’ve discovered a new chemical process to make p-xylene, an important ingredient of common plastics, at 90 percent yield from lignocellulosic biomass, the highest yield achieved to date. Details are in the current issue of Green Chemistry.
Chemical engineer Paul Dauenhauer is one of only 14 scientists worldwide to receive recognition for scientific innovation from the 2013 DuPont Young Professors Program, the company recently announced. He will receive $75,000 over three years to advance progress on his discovery of a process for making renewable plastics and chemicals from biomass.
Hari Balasubramanian of the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering department has been awarded a $400,000 grant from the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program to research streamlining the delivery of primary care to patients.
The broadcasts can be heard, with one exception, on Sunday afternoons starting at 1 p.m. on WFCR, and will feature conversations on each selection between conductor Kevin Rhodes and New England Public Radio music director John Montanari.
A new UMass Football Ambassadors program is being launched Wednesday, May 29 at Fenway Park’s Absolut Club, where head coach Charley Molnar will discuss this year’s team and the effort to use specially trained, on-the-ground volunteers to execute simple promotions to educate, build fan loyalty and boost attendance at Minuteman games.
Professor emeritus Ekwueme Michael Thelwell of Afro-American Studies represented his department and the university at funeral rites in Nigeria for writer and former visiting professor Chinua Achebe, who died March 21 in Boston.
The life and legacy of former chancellor Randolph W. Bromery were remembered May 17 at a memorial gathering hosted by the Chancellor’s Office at the Marriott Center for Hospitality Management in the Campus Center.