Calling for a strong emphasis on “communication, collaboration and engagement” with the campus and local communities, new Police Chief John K. Horvath was officially sworn in during an Oct. 4 ceremony at the Massachusetts Room of the Mullins Center.
Along with a large contingent of UMPD officers and staff, the event was attended by about 75 people, including local and university officials and fellow police officers from Amherst, Amherst College, Hadley, UMass Dartmouth, UMass Boston, Massachusetts State Police, University of Connecticut Health Center, Cheshire, Conn., East Hartford, Conn.,
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 research team, including Scott Garman, associate professor of Biochemistry, and alumnus Nathaniel Clark, experts in revealing molecular structure by X-ray crystallography, has identified two new small “chaperone” molecules that may be useful in treating the inherited metabolic disorder known as Schindler/Kanzaki disease. This offers hope for developing the first ever drug treatment for this very rare disease. Findings are reported in the current issue of Proceedings of the National Academies of Science. 
Gregory Tew, professor of Polymer Science and Engineering and colleagues, including immunologist Lisa Minter, have found a way to get inside naïve T cells and to deliver bio-active cargo such as proteins and synthetic molecules across what had been a long-locked cell membrane. They do this by using a new synthetic protein transduction domain (PTD) that mimics natural ones. Tew and colleagues call their new macromolecules “PTD mimics” (PTDMs). They are able to slip through the T cell’s membrane and deliver a payload of therapeutic small interfering RNA (siRNA).
The grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Bureau of Health Professions will allow the school to fully implement a program called Achieving Diversity: A Comprehensive Approach to Nursing Workforce Diversity.