*** MEDIA ADVISORY ***
DATE: Thursday, April 18, 2013
TIME: Media opportunity 1:15 to 2:15 p.m.
WHAT: Presentations on Massachusetts’ Global Warming Preparedness
WHERE: Integrated Sciences Building, UMass Amherst campus
State officials will present information on the new Massachusetts Global Warming Solutions Act and State Climate Plan, including plans to meet strict emissions targets by 2020 and related efforts to promote cutting-edge research in support of these goals, especially in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.
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.
AMHERST, Mass. – University of Massachusetts Amherst Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy recently accepted from his environmental advisory committee an updated Climate Action Plan that outlines ambitious goals for the campus, focused not only on energy efficiency and reduced emissions, but on raising sustainability literacy, student participation and integrating green principles into all of campus life, notably academic courses.
AMHERST, Mass. – University of Massachusetts Amherst professors Max Page and Marla Miller take a loving and clear-eyed look at the wide-ranging architecture and landscape of the 150-year-old UMass Amherst campus in a hefty, glossy and eponymously titled new addition to “The Campus Guide” series from the Princeton Architectural Press.
AMHERST, Mass. – Undergraduate Commencement at the University of Massachusetts Amherst will feature a keynote address by Kenneth I. Chenault, chairman and CEO of American Express Company, to the 5,500 graduates and their families and friends. The event is on Friday, May 10 at 5 p.m. in McGuirk Alumni Stadium and will be held rain or shine.
AMHERST, Mass. – Five teams of student entrepreneurs will pitch their business plans to a panel of expert judges at the eighth annual University of Massachusetts Amherst Innovation Challenge on April 17. The teams will be competing for $50,000 in prize money at the event held in the Amherst Room, 10th floor, Campus Center, starting at 3:30 p.m. The competition is free and open to the public.