IMSD PROGRAM

STEM DIVERSITY INSTITUTE

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS

524 GOODELL BLDG

140 HICKS WAY

AMHERST, MA

01003-9272

TEL: 413.577.1735

FAX: 413.577.1660

 

 

The NIH-sponsored IMSD program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst combines solid academic support, specialized multi-tiered mentoring, and state-of-the-art professional training making it one of the most comprehensive academic programs available to students from underrepresented groups in the biomedical and behavorial sciences.

NEWS

 

 

STEM Diversity Institute hosts visiting faculty for summer

 

6/21/13       The STEM Diversity Institute is hosting four faculty members from minority-serving institutions through the Visiting Partner Faculty Program funded by the National Institutes of Health’s Initiative for Maximizing Student Development.

 

Through the program, visiting faculty will spend five to 10 weeks this summer working with faculty who have similar research interests....read more

 

 

 

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IMSD Summer Visiting Faculty will be on Campus for eight weeks beginning on June 3.   Contact hmmartin@dmin.umass.edu for more information.

 

 

 

CONGRATULATIONS

 

 

Doctoral Defenses

 

Yadilette Rivera-Colón; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, March 2013;  "STRUCTURAL AND BIOCHEMICAL STUDIES OF THE HUMAN LYSOSOMAL ENZYMES:  N-ACETYLGALACTOSAMINE-6-SULFATASE, N-SULFOGLUCOSAMINE SULFOHYDROLASE  AND β-GALACTOSIDASE"

Advisor: Dr. Scott Garman, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

 

Fellowships and Awards

 

Daniel Enrique Acevedo-Cartagena,  2013  NSF Graduate Research Fellowship in polymer materials research, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering