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Congratulations to Shelly Peyton on being elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).
Congratulations to Lixin Gao on having been awarded an NSF grant to use cloud resources to dramatically improve internet routing!
Jessica Schiffman is part of a team of researchers who were recently awarded $1.75M in NSF funding to study and develop a new class of soft electronics!
Ana Muriel was interviewed by New England Public Radio about "zipper merging" on our roads.
Congratulations to Jessica Schiffman on having been awarded the American Chemical Society Applied Materials & Interfaces Young Investigator Award!
Work by Sarah Perry on charge patterns instruct polymer function was recently published in ACS Central Science!
Work by Yanfei Xu on Polymer Films with Metal-like Thermal Conductivity was recently published in Nature Communications!
Congratulations to Eleni Christofa on being recognized as one of the Outstanding Junior Faculty in the College of Engineering!
Friederike Jentoft received a $110,000 grant from the ACS-PRF to optimize the converesion of methane to higher alkanes!
Welcome to Yanfei Xu a new assistant professor in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering!
Shelly Peyton's new sophomore-level laboratory course was highlighted for the ways in which it gives students the hands-on experience necessary to help students build their resume, get an internship, and find a job.
Emily Kumpel was highlighted in a UMass Amherst Office of News and Media Relations Video for her work making drinking water safe.
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