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DATE: Thursday, March 28
TIME: 2:30 p.m.
WHERE: Renaissance Public School, Room 50, 1170 Carew St., Springfield
Renowned artist Tim Rollins and members of his collective, Kids of Survival (K.O.S.), is conducting a special residency/workshop March 26-28 with middle school students and teachers at Springfield’s Renaissance Public School.
Sponsored by the University Museum of Contemporary Art (UMCA) at UMass Amherst, the project will combine lessons in reading and writing with the production of works of art.
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 biologist Sheila Patek will talk about “Speed: Life in the Fast Lane,” exploring some of the world’s fastest animals – but maybe not the ones most people think of – at a Science Café on Monday, April 15 at 6 p.m. at Esselon Café in Hadley.
AMHERST, Mass. – The University of Massachusetts Amherst will honor and celebrate the life of the late Randolph W. Bromery on Friday, May 17 from 2-4:30 p.m. in the Marriott Center on the 11th floor of the Campus Center. The memorial event will be hosted by UMass Amherst Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy.
AMHERST, Mass. – Dining Services at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is hosting the fourth annual “UMass 5K Dash and Dine” on campus Saturday, April 6.
AMHERST, Mass. – A series of seminars on home gardening topics taught by University of Massachusetts Amherst agriculture faculty and professional staff is being offered at sites around the state in April and May.
AMHERST, Mass. – The Mark H. McCormack Department of Sport Management at the Isenberg School of Management, UMass Amherst, has announced that influential hockey executive Brian Burke will be the next featured guest in its Executive-in-Residence program. Burke boasts an impressive resume of wide-ranging experience in professional hockey serving as the general manager of four National Hockey League teams including guiding the Anaheim Ducks to their first Stanley Cup in 2007. He also served as the general manager of the 2010 U.S.
AMHERST, Mass. – Craig Nicolson is intrigued by the big ideas that have changed the world. As director of academic sustainability programs in the College of Natural Sciences, he wants to see students at the University of Massachusetts Amherst change the world. That, he says, requires them to know whose ideas have already been influential and why.