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Computer science faculty receive prestigious NSF CAREER awards
- Oliver Brock and Deepak Ganesan have each received five-year $480,000 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development program awards, the NSF’s most prestigious award for new faculty members.
- February 17, 2006 • Department of Computer Science
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Turn it on
- Daniel Anderson, pschology, comments on the changing format of children's televison.
- February 16, 2006 • Slate
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Microsoft grants enable work in secure computing and in environmental data collection
- Three teams of UMass researchers have received competitive awards to pursue technology work addressing two leading research priorities for industry and government.
- February 16, 2006 • Office of News & Media Relations
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Going native
- What an anthropologist learned when she went back to college as a freshman.
- February 15, 2006 • UMass Amherst magazine
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Prout does swimmingly well
- UMass swimmer Michael David Prout, Jr. recently set two U.S. records in Paralympic swimming, covering 500 meters in 4:59.52 and 1,000 meters in 10:18.01.
- February 15, 2006 • Boston Herald
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Zimmermann to give Distinguished Faculty Lecture
- Robert A. Zimmermann, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, will speak February 22. His talk his titled, “A Molecular Biologist Returns to Nature.”
- February 14, 2006 • Office of News & Media Relations
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Boundary breakers
- UMass Amherst BDIC program encourages interdisciplinary study.
- February 14, 2006 • Advancement Communications
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Gift to School of Nursing helps fund clinical nurse leader program
- The $50,000 gift is supporting the first class of students in the School of Nursing's new two-year clinical nurse leader program, which prepares nurses to work directly with patients and families to navigate through all aspects of the health care system.
- February 13, 2006 • Office of News & Media Relations
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UMass holds off Fordham 68-63 to win third straight
- Tamara Tatham lead UMass with 21 points as the Minutewomen scored seven unanswered points to break a 61-61 tie and hold off the Fordham Rams.
- February 12, 2006 • Athletic Department
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Olympic mountain towns getting passed by
- Elizabeth Krause, anthropology, says efforts to prevent rural villages in Italy from dying a natural death are understandable for people who want to keep traditions alive, but may not be a good idea. Observers say small villages near the Olympic Games in Turin aren't getting advantages from the money and attention coming to the region.
- February 9, 2006 • Associated Press
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Holmes wins Grammy Award
- Music professor Jeffrey Holmes won a Grammy February 8 in the Best New Age Album category for his role on keyboard on the Paul Winter Consort album Silver Solstice.
- February 9, 2006 • In the Loop
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UMass launches new athletics Web site
- The new site features a drastically improved design with wide photo layouts for every page and includes GameTracker, which allows fans to follow live simulated game action of their favorite teams.
- February 8, 2006 • Athletic Department
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National network will help prevent animal diseases and protect food supply
- UMass Amherst will be the lead research center in a global effort to develop tools needed to create vaccines and tests for infectious animal diseases that threaten agriculture and the food supply.
- February 7, 2006 • Office of News & Media Relations
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Class of 2006 building a "Future with a View"
- The Class of 2006 Senior Class Gift will renovate the top floor of the W.E.B. Du Bois Library, creating a new home for Special Collections and the University Archives Reading Room.
- February 6, 2006 • Development Office
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UMass Ballroom Dance Team waltzes in a new year
- UMass Ballroom Dance offers lesson, recreational dancing and competition to the five college community.
- February 6, 2006 • Advancement Communications
