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DATE: Monday, Dec. 10,2012
TIME: 1 p.m.
PLACE: 745E Lederle Graduate Research Tower
University of Massachusetts Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy and other campus officials will celebrate the completion of a $7 million renovation of laboratory and research space funded by the National Institutes of Health through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
Other speakers at the event will be Steve Goodwin, dean of the College of Natural Sciences, and James Kurose, former executive associate dean of the college.
Tours of the
The concluding event in the Envision Depot Square Holyoke project will showcase and celebrate architectural designs and proposals developed by University of Massachusetts Amherst architecture + design students in response to recent community dialogues.
AMHERST, Mass – The W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is being awarded this year’s American Historical Association’s Equity Award recognizing success in training and placing nearly 100 percent of its minority historians in academia.
AMHERST, Mass. – Molecular chaperones have emerged as exciting new potential drug targets, because scientists want to learn how to stop cancer cells, for example, from using chaperones to enable their uncontrolled growth. Now a team of biochemists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst led by Lila Gierasch have deciphered key steps in the mechanism of the Hsp70 molecular machine by “trapping” this chaperone in action, providing a dynamic snapshot of its mechanism.
AMHERST, Mass. – The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has announced that polymer scientist Maria Santore and biochemist Danny Schnell of the University of Massachusetts Amherst have been awarded the distinction of fellow in an election by their peers to recognize scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications.
AMHERST, Mass. – New research that relied in part on satellite images suggests that cheatgrass, an invasive species brought west by settlers in the 1800s, is one cause for the larger, hotter and more frequent range fires experienced recently in the Great Basin of the American West. The arid region covers about 230,000 square miles (600,000 km) over much of Nevada and parts of Utah, Colorado, Idaho, California and Oregon.
AMHERST, Mass. – All 45 residence halls at the University of Massachusetts Amherst are now protected with fire sprinkler systems, following a massive, voluntary retrofit to protect students in one of the nation’s largest on-campus housing systems. State Fire Marshal Stephen Coan hailed the achievement as an impressive commitment to public safety.
AMHERST, Mass. – The University of Massachusetts Amherst Police Department received a national accreditation award on Nov. 17 during the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc. (CALEA) fall conference in Jacksonville, Fla., according to Chief John Horvath.
AMHERST, Mass. – Inside many growing cells, an active transport system runs on nano-sized microtubule tracks that resemble a highway, complete with motors carrying cargo quickly from a central supply depot to growing tips or wherever materials are needed. In spite of the cell’s busy, high-traffic environment, researchers know the system somehow works efficiently, without accidents or traffic jams.