Faculty awarded $1.25m for speech language pathology research-to-practice project

Mary Andrianopoulos, Communication Disorders, and Mary Lynn Boscardin, chair of the Student Development Department, recently were awarded a five-year, $1.25 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) for training speech language pathologists in the public schools to effectively deliver reliable, evidence-based models of technology. Theirs was one of only nine winning proposals in the national competition.
 
The grant will fund over 40 master's students in speech language pathology (SLP) with a specialization in the area of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and using technologies

NEPR breaks ground on downtown Springfield facility

A new era for New England Public Radio began March 4 as the station formally broke ground on a new, multi-million dollar production and operations facility at the corner of Main and Bridge streets in downtown Springfield.
 
The CEO and general manager of NEPR, Martin Miller, was joined at the ceremony by Congressman Richard Neal, Mayor Domenic Sarno, Elizabeth Cardona of the governor’s Springfield office and John Kennedy, vice chancellor for University Relations.
 
“The choice to move to the heart of downtown Springfield was a very deliberate one for New England Public Radio,” said Miller.

Keck Foundation awards $1m for research on ultrathin films

Physicists Narayanan Menon, Benny Davidovitch and Christopher Santangelo, with polymer scientist Thomas Russell, recently won a three-year, $1 million Keck Foundation grant to develop the basic science needed to spontaneously deliver ultrathin films to fluid interfaces. The W.M. Keck Science and Engineering program funds “endeavors that are distinctive and novel in their approach. It encourages projects that are high-risk with the potential for transformative impact.”
 
As Menon explains, he and his collaborators will build upon their previous successes to tackle a handful of new problems,

Former Chancellor Randolph Bromery dead at 87

Randolph Wilson “Bill” Bromery, of Peabody, who served as chancellor from 1971-79 and Commonwealth Professor emeritus of geophysics, died Feb. 26 in Danvers. He was 87.
 
Bromery led the university through one of the most dynamic, and sometimes turbulent, periods in its 150-year history, establishing a reputation for problem solving and for building both diversity and consensus. Following his retirement as chancellor and executive vice president in 1979, Bromery went on to lead Westfield State, Springfield College and Roxbury Community College, retiring in 2003.
 
“Randolph Bromery was a

Institute for Computational Biology, Biostatistics, and Bioinformatics debuts website

The Institute for Computational Biology, Biostatistics, and Bioinformatics (ICB3) has launched its inaugural website at www.umass.edu/icb3. The site is one of the first to be developed with University Relations’ new UMass-branded Drupal package.
 
The new website features campus resources and research at the intersection of computational, statistical and life sciences.

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