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.
Professor Max Page of the Art, Art History and Architecture Department, is one of three scholars nationally named to receive the Rome Prize for Historic Preservation and Conservation, awarded annually by the American Academy in Rome to honor “the highest standard of excellence in the arts and humanities.”
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.
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.
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.
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.