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 Dr. Robert Wick went to Bangladesh on a Fulbright Scholar Award in 2006. Follow his teaching and life experiences in the words and beautiful pictures of his Online Journal.
 Dr. Prasanta Bhowmik also taught classes in Bangladesh on a Fulbright Scholar Award in 2007. He invited all of us to join him via his Online Journal.
- Dr. Boshan Xing's nanoparticle research is highlighted in Nanowork.com. The inovative research couples an olive oil manfacturing waste product with nanoparticles of aluminum oxide. The resulting unique complex can efficiently absorb one of the most hazardous biproducts of carbon fuel combustion, phenanthrene.
June, 2008
- Dr. Om Parkash's research on plants that resist uptake of arsenic could help ease the global rice shortage. Listen to a podcast interview with Dr. Parkash.
May, 2008
- Dr. John Gerber is one of four faculty members selected for a 2008 Distinguished Teaching Award, the highest honor for excellence in the classroom at UMass Amherst.
April, 2008
- Dr. John Gerber receives a $500 Community Service Learning Course Assistant Award to support his course PLSOILIN 285: Sustainable Living.
April, 2008
- Dr. Boshan Xing organizes symposium at The American Chemical Society's 2008 Annual Meeting.
April, 2008
- Dr. Lynn Adler is among of a team of three researchers awarded a 3-year, $450,000 NSF grant to study the effects of suburbanization on plant evolution.
April, 2008
- Former UMass Amherst Entomology Graduate Student named State Minister for Agriculture in Rwanda, Africa.
March, 2008
- Dr. John Burand to receive $150,000, 3-year USDA grant for research aimed at improving bee health in the Northeast.
March, 2008
- UMass Amherst Turf Club Students participate in two National Turf Bowl Competitions.
January, 2008
- Dr. William Manning gave the opening invited plenary lecture at an environmental forum in Xiaman, China.
November, 2007
- Dr. Stephen Rich receives funding to track growing populations of ticks that carry Lyme Disease bacteria.
July, 2007
- Three PSIS Faculty share $481,500 in Massachusetts Agricultural Innovation Grants.
May, 2007
- Dr. Boshan Xing's research paper, "Phytotoxicity of nanoparticles: Inhibition of seed germination and root growth," is featured online this month at Nanowerk.com. This paper is currently in press, and will be in print soon in the journal Environmental Pollution (Elsevier Ltd).
March, 2007
- Dr. Boshan Xing's research on fullerene and carbon nanotubes is highlighted this month on Nanowerk.com
December, 2006
- Dr. Frank Mangan's Work Brings New Ethnic Crops to Massachusetts. Dr. Mangan is helping local farmers to grow specialized crops and market them to emerging immigrant communities.
November, 2006
- Dr. Lynn Adler's research on "Toxic Nectar" is featured in a Science News Online article; Vol. 169, No. 19.
May 13, 2006
- Dr. Prasanta Bhowmik awarded Fulbright to Bangladesh
April, 2006
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