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Women’s iron intake may help protect against PMS, says study

Women who reported eating a diet rich in iron were 30 to 40 percent less likely to develop pre-menstrual syndrome (PMS) than women who consumed lower amounts, in a study reported this week by researchers at the School of Public Health and Health Sciences and Harvard. It is one of the first to evaluate whether dietary mineral intake is associated with PMS development.
 
Senior author Elizabeth Bertone-Johnson and others at UMass Amherst, with lead author Patricia Chocano-Bedoya and colleagues at Harvard, assessed mineral intake in approximately 3,000 women in a case-control study nested within

Campus team dominates national Turf Bowl competition

The grass is always greener when it is being tended by the nation’s number one-ranked turf team, which just happens to be part of the UMass Amherst Turf Club.
 
The 19th annual Golf Course Superintendents Association of America (GCSAA) Turf Bowl held Feb. 7 in San Diego was dominated by a UMass Amherst team consisting of Evan Bradstreet, a senior from Gorham, Maine; Sean Raposa, a junior from Tiverton, R.I.; Kevin Shewmaker, a senior from Granby, and Peter J. White III, a senior from Worcester.

Gubrium, Krause awarded $500k Ford Foundation grant for Holyoke ‘Hear Our Stories’ project

Aline Gubrium, Public Health and Health Sciences, and Betsy Krause, Anthropology, recently won a two-year, $500,000 grant from the Ford Foundation’s Sexuality Research Initiative to launch their “Hear Our Stories” project in collaboration with the Community Adolescent Resources and Education (Care) Center of Holyoke, an alternative education program that serves young women ages 16-21 and their children.
 
Gubrium and Krause plan four four-day workshops at the Care Center by staff of the California-based Center for Digital Storytelling and staff from WGBY’s “Telling Our Legacies Digitally”

Irwin receives $461,434 CAREER award from NSF to study energy efficiency in buildings

David Irwin, assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has received a five-year, $461,434 grant from the National Science Foundation to fund research on energy efficiency in houses and buildings. The grant is from the NSF’s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program.
 
Irwin says understanding how and why individual electrical devices consume electricity is critical to improving a building’s overall energy efficiency. Irwin plans to create a “Wikipedia-style” website to collect electricity use data from thousands of specific brands and models of appliances.

Zoeller's Distinguished Faculty Lecture focuses on endocrine disrupting chemicals

Biologist R. Thomas Zoeller will discuss ways in which chemicals in the environment may disrupt the body’s endocrine system in a Distinguished Faculty Lecture on Monday, Feb. 25 at 4 p.m. in the Massachusetts Room at the Mullins Center. His lecture, titled “The Brain on Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals,” will be followed by a reception. All lectures in the series are free and open to the public.
 
Zoeller’s research laboratory has pioneered the study of the role of thyroid hormone in brain development of the fetus.

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