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Peter Chien
Chien Lab Finds Protease Adaptors Regulate Own Destruction
For cells of all sorts, getting rid of proteins when they are no longer needed is essential to proper functioning, explains Peter Chien, biochemistry and molecular biology. Biochemists have long known that many key cell processes depend on a highly regulated cleanup system in which specialized...
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IT Staff Leadership Group Hosts High School Technology Field Trips
The UMass Amherst IT Staff Leadership Group recently hosted two high school technology field trips. Thirty students from the John Marshall School of Information Technology of Cleveland, Ohio, the first high school in that state to focus on computer science, visited April 24, and 14 students from...
Liam Fitzgerald and Katie Becofsky
Kinesiology Faculty Member, Doctoral Student Awarded Grants by ACSM
The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) recently honored two members of the kinesiology department with grants to help them complete research. Assistant professor Katie Becofsky was awarded the Paffenbarger-Blair Fund for Epidemiological Research on Physical Activity Award, and doctoral...
Andrew Barto
Barto to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award for Research in Artificial Intelligence
Computer science professor emeritus Andrew Barto is the 2017 recipient of the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) IJCAI-17 Award for Research Excellence. The lifetime achievement award recognizes scientists who consistently produce high-quality research in their...
Erin Baker
Baker Addresses International Session on Wind Farm Research
Erin Baker, industrial engineering and director of Wind Energy Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT), was a plenary speaker at WINDFARMS 2017 held May 31-June 2 at Comillas Pontifical University in Madrid, Spain. WINDFARMS was planned to bring together wind farm...
Obituary: John R. Cronen, Longtime Veterinary and Animal Sciences Employee
John R. Cronen, 87, of Montague, a 42-year employee of veterinary and animal sciences and preceding departments, died May 29. Born in Greenfield Oct. 18, 1929, he graduated from Turners Falls High School. He joined UMass Amherst in the former farm department as a stableman in 1948. Other titles he...
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Harper, Urla Lead Delegation at International Social Science Workshop in France
Krista Harper, anthropology and School of Public Policy, and Jacqueline Urla, anthropology, with graduate students Alina Ryabovolova, communication, Dana Conzo and Brittni Howard, both anthropology, took part in an international graduate student workshop on “Grassroots: Economies, Politics,...
Deborah Niemann
Niemann’s ‘Homegown and Handmade’ Issued in Expanded Edition
A second, expanded edition of “Homegrown and Handmade: A Practical Guide to Self-Reliant Living” by homesteader, writer and self-sufficiency expert Deborah Niemann, an online instructor this summer at the Stockbridge School of Agriculture, was published June 1 by New Society Publishers...
Carson Cornelius-Burke
University Names Director of Student Broadcast Media
Carson Cornelius-Burke, most recently general manager of WUEV radio at the University of Evansville, Indiana, has been named director of student broadcast media for UMass Amherst, focusing primarily on student radio station WMUA. He begins work in June. Experienced in college radio operations,...
Robert Skalbite
Skalbite Named to Lead New Farm Management Structure
Robert Skalbite, assistant superintendent of the university’s Hadley Farm Equine and Livestock Research and Education Center, has been named to a new interim position as farm manager. This position will oversee operations at the Crop and Animal Research and Education Center in South Deerfield...

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