***MEDIA ADVISORY***
DATE: Saturday, April 6, 2013
TIME: 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; 3:45 p.m. is best for team robot competition
WHAT: Girls’ team workshop to build and program LEGO NXT robots
WHERE: UMass Amherst Computer Science Building, 140 Governor’s Drive
Dozens of middle school girls will converge on the University of Massachusetts Amherst campus on Saturday, April 6, for the fourth annual “Girls Connect,” where they will learn how to build and program LEGO robots.
Eight teams of girls ages 9 to 13, in grades 4 to 8, from western Massachusetts towns with their adult
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. – Professor Emery Berger at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has won a Software Engineering Innovation Foundation (SEIF) award, which includes a $25,000 grant, for his work on a system to automatically find errors in spreadsheets.
AMHERST, Mass. – Leading scholars on Venezuela and Hugo Chávez will gather at the University of Massachusetts Amherst on Friday, April 19, for a conference titled “Venezuela: Change or Continuity? The Legacy of Hugo Chávez and the Future of the Bolivarian Revolution.”
AMHERST, Mass. – University of Massachusetts Amherst microbiologist Derek Lovley, the discoverer of the multifaceted Geobacter bacterium, will speak on “Microbes: the Small Organisms Generating Big Economic Impact” on Thursday, April 18 at 6:30 p.m. at the University of Massachusetts Club, 225 Franklin St., Boston.
AMHERST, Mass. – Just three months before the University of Massachusetts Amherst joins more than 750 other colleges and universities that have become tobacco-free, a public awareness campaign is being launched to inform students, employees and visitors about the new policy.