Faculty
Royal Society of Chemistry Selects Article by Yanfei Xu and Students for “Most Popular Papers of 2022”
Xu’s paper stresses the possibilities and inspiring opportunities for future applications of thermally conductive polymers with metal-like thermal conductivity.
Welcome to New Faculty Members Sean McBeath and Xuan “Silvia” Zhang
McBeath studies water and wastewater treatment, while Zhang works on electronic design automation, integrated circuits, and computer architecture.
Mathew Lackner’s Article in The Conversation About Floating Wind Turbines Is Being Widely Distributed
Lackner notes that floating wind turbines will become increasingly deployed in California and across the globe, and he succinctly describes how they work.
Friederike Jentoft Works with Technion in Israel to Develop Greener Catalysis Processes
NSF-BSF grant supports research into revolutionary catalysts that can play a key function in a sustainable chemical industry that minimizes carbon emissions.
Tilman Wolf and Qiangfei Xia Named IEEE Fellows
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers has elevated Wolf and Xia to a distinction reserved for IEEE members with extraordinary accomplishments.
Nianqiang Wu and Qiangfei Xia Make Annual List of World’s Most Highly Cited Researchers
List of “Highly Cited Researchers” places Wu and Xia among global researchers “who have demonstrated exceptional influence through their published papers.”
Casey Brown Teams with City of Santa Cruz to Model Its Future Water Supply in Face of Climate Change
As Brown explained his research, “The way that we think about it is that water supply is a risk-based business, and we have to worry about how things go wrong.”
Sanjay Arwade Comments in Online Magazine of American Geophysical Union
Arwade quoted as expert on the construction of support structures for offshore wind turbines in Eos magazine.
Shelly Peyton Receives Conti Fellowship Award
Professor Shelly Peyton of the Chemical Engineering (ChE) Department has received one of the UMass Amherst 2022-2023 Samuel F. Conti Faculty Fellowship Awards.
Gift from Alumnus and Donor Edward Gray Establishes William W. Boyer Endowed Professorship
The College of Engineering has established the William W. Boyer Endowed Professorship in the Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) Department.
Zink Makes Cover of Red Hat Research Quarterly
Professor Michael Zink of ECE was the subject of the cover story and interview in the February edition of the Red Hat Research Quarterly.
SME Names Wen Chen One of Its 2022 Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineers
Assistant Professor Wen Chen of MIE has been named a Sandra L. Bouckley Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer.