AMHERST, Mass. – An interdisciplinary team of graduate students at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has won $45,000 for their proposal for a new company that would develop drug delivery platforms for targeting cancer and making chemotherapy more effective.
Samuel F. Conti Faculty Fellowships have been awarded to Salvatore E. Macchia, Music and Dance; Peter A. Monson, Chemical Engineering; and Margaret J. Speas, Linguistics.
When education and the needs of the community intersect, the situation is definitely win-win. Such is the case with the Psychological Services Center, a community mental health clinic operated by the clinical division of the Department of Psychology.
Several technology initiatives, including the creation of testing center and the development of an institutional repository, received the backing of the Faculty Senate on May 18.
The School of Education is hosting two events on Saturday, June 3 to honor professor emerita Sonia Nieto and to formally launch the campaign to create the Sonia Nieto Fund for Multicultural Education.
Five members of the campus chapter of Engineers Without Borders have just returned from initiating a long-term project in western Kenya to provide local farmers with a reliable, life-giving source of clean drinking water.
