AMHERST, Mass. – When Gov. Deval Patrick, UMass President Robert Caret and other state officials cut the ribbon on Friday to open the new Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) in Holyoke, a small group of scientists will be waiting in the wings, ready to step in and begin actually building a shared computer cluster, an “academic cloud” to provide service to university users.
Four principal researchers, computer science researcher Prashant Shenoy of UMass Amherst, Chris Hill of MIT, Claudio Rebbi of Boston University and Gene Cooperman of Northeastern University
AMHERST, Mass. – Military uniforms of the future may offer a new layer of critical protection to wearers thanks to research by teams at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and several other institutions who are developing a nanotube-based fabric that repels chemical and biological agents.
AMHERST, Mass. – For researchers who study Earth’s past environment, disentangling the effects of climate change from those related to human activities is a major challenge, but now University of Massachusetts Amherst geoscientists have used a biomarker from human feces in a completely new way to establish the first human presence, the arrival of grazing animals and human population dynamics in a landscape.
AMHERST, Mass. – The fall semester’s Commonwealth Honors College Faculty Lecture Series at the University of Massachusetts Amherst concludes with “The Writer’s Perspective: Literary Imagination and Living History” by English professor Sabina Murray on Monday, Nov. 26 at 6:30 p.m. in the Campus Center Auditorium.
AMHERST, Mass. – A University of Massachusetts Amherst engineering professor has been awarded a four-year, $1.6-million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue her research on a computerized disaster-management response system. Aura Ganz, professor of electrical and computer engineering, says the system is designed to quickly organize chaotic, mass-casualty, disaster scenes, such as airliner, bus and train wrecks, and cut the evacuation time of survivors in half.
AMHERST, Mass. – Building on its success in drawing more women and under-represented minority students to study computer science at Massachusetts public colleges and universities over the past five years, the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Commonwealth Alliance for Information Technology Education (CAITE) has won a major grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and will now take a national leadership role in computer science education.
AMHERST, Mass. – The Mark H. McCormack Department of Sport Management at the Isenberg School of Management, UMass Amherst has announced that Olympic agent and marketing executive Peter Carlisle, managing director of Octagon’s Olympic and Action Sports division, will be the next featured guest in its executive-in-residence program. The department will welcome Carlisle to the UMass Amherst campus on Tuesday, Nov. 27. Carlisle most notably managed the career of Olympic swimmer and gold medalist Michael Phelps.
AMHERST, Mass. – It may seem like common sense that the quality of online video streaming affects how willing viewers are to watch videos at a website. But until computer science researcher Ramesh Sitaraman at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and collaborators at Akamai developed a way to rigorously study the question, no one had been able to scientifically test the assumption.
BOSTON – For almost 150 years, the University of Massachusetts Amherst has emphasized public service as critical to the social and economic development of the Commonwealth, nation and the world. On Wednesday, Nov. 14 at 6 p.m., UMass Amherst will host the first-ever A Salute to Service Awards at the Boston Harbor Hotel.