*** MEDIA ADVISORY ***
DATE: Wednesday, March 6, 2013
TIME: 12:30-1 p.m.
WHERE: Student Union Ballroom, UMass Amherst
As part of an international human rights effort, the White Ribbon Day Campaign invites men and boys to be part of the solution in ending violence against women.
At UMass Amherst, speakers will highlight men’s role in challenging and ending abuse; men and boys will then join in a public pledge to never commit, condone or remain silent about men’s violence against women. All members of the campus community are encouraged to attend.
Speakers
AMHERST, Mass. – Today the National Academy of Sciences announced a three-year, $271,930 grant to chemist Vincent Rotello at the University of Massachusetts Amherst to develop, test and deploy new, sensitive, reliable and affordable inkjet-printed, nanoparticle-based test strips for detecting disease-causing bacteria in drinking water, with researchers at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan.
AMHERST, Mass. – Leading Bluefin tuna researchers at the universities of Massachusetts and Maine issued a rebuttal to a “factsheet” they say is an “irresponsible distortion of the information available” issued by the Pew Charitable Trusts this week, as the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna’s (ICCAT) expert working groups meet in Montréal beginning today to discuss tuna stocks.
AMHERST, Mass. – Reporting this month in Molecular Microbiology, Peter Chien and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst describe using a combination of biochemistry and mass spectrometry to “trap” scores of new candidate substrates of the protease ClpXP to reveal how protein degradation is critical to cell cycle progression and bacterial development. The new understanding could lead to identifying new antibiotic targets.
AMHERST, Mass. – In the cover story for the journal Genetics this month, neurobiologist Dan Chase and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst describe a new experimental technique they developed that will allow scientists to study the function of individual proteins in individual cell types in a living organism.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – A new era for New England Public Radio began today as the station formally broke ground on a new, multi-million dollar production and operations facility at the corner of Main and Bridge streets in downtown Springfield.
AMHERST, Mass. – Ken Toong, executive director of Auxiliary Enterprises at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has been named a winner of a 2013 Silver Plate Award from the International Foodservice Manufacturers Association (IFMA) in the colleges and universities category.
AMHERST, Mass. – Randolph Wilson “Bill” Bromery, of Peabody, chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Amherst from 1971-79 and Commonwealth Professor emeritus of geophysics, died Feb. 26 in Danvers, Mass. He was 87.
AMHERST, Mass. – Chefs from six of the schools listed in the Best Campus Food rankings in the 2013 edition of The Best 377 Colleges published by The Princeton Review will serve up signature dishes on Tuesday, March 5, from 5-9 p.m. at Berkshire Dining Commons at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
AMHERST, Mass. – Daniel Gordon, professor of History and associate dean of Commonwealth Honors College, will speak on “The Fatal Truth: The Cult of Violence in Western Political Thought” on Tuesday, March 5 at 6:30 p.m. in the Student Union Ballroom at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
AMHERST, Mass. – More than 300 female high school students, teachers, and guidance counselors from across Massachusetts will travel to the University of Massachusetts Amherst to attend the annual Women in Engineering and Computing Career Day Conference on Monday, March 4. The conference is being held in the Campus Center Auditorium beginning at 8:30 a.m. It seeks to excite, inspire and encourage young women to pursue engineering as a career path.
AMHERST, Mass. – Historian Robin D.G. Kelley, award-winning African-American scholar and 2013 history department writer-in-residence at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, will speak Tuesday, March 5 in the Student Union’s Cape Cod Lounge beginning at 4 p.m.
AMHERST, Mass. – Hundreds of University of Massachusetts Amherst students, faculty and staff are expected to participate in a weeklong challenge called “No Impact Week” beginning on Sunday, Feb. 24, to reduce their individual carbon footprints and other environmental impacts through daily personal experiments in waste reduction, transportation, energy, food and water consumption.