April 2018

UMass President's Office

These IALS faculty are among the recipients of $200,000 in seed funding from the UMass system’s Technology Development Fund:

  • “Prototype Protein Nanowire-Based Sensor,” Derek Lovley, microbiology, and Jun Yao, electrical and computer engineering. The team is making a wearable sensor for non-invasive, real-time monitoring of a wide range of biomarkers that help to diagnose chronic medical conditions.

Jeanne Hardy

Jeanne Hardy, chemistry and M2M, awarded the inaugural Mahoney Life Sciences Prize for her research on caspases to combat neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease. She will receive the prize and present her research with life sciences experts and UMass officials and scientists at a breakfast ceremony on June 19 at the UMass Club in Boston.

National Biomechanics Day

National Biomechanics Day is a world-wide celebration of Biomechanics in its many forms for high school students and teachers.

Biomechanics is the fundamental example of STEM and STEAM educational initiatives. It combines Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics into one awe-inspiring, jaw-dropping, human-enhancing, creative endeavor.

We hope to see you there!

The Institute for Applied Life Sciences and Nikon Instruments cordially invites you to the Grand Opening Ceremony of the Light Microscopy Facility at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. This imaging facility is the newest designated Nikon Center of Excellence, an honor currently limited to 20 institutions worldwide.

May 8, 2018
1:00-4:00 p.m.
S330/340 Life Sciences Laboratories

Daniel Holcomb

Daniel Holcomb, electrical and computer engineering and CPHM, has received a five-year, $596,160 National Science Foundation Early Career Development
(CAREER) grant to study supply chain security for integrated circuits.

The new supply chain security project supports the broader research goal of Holcomb's research group to secure the hardware of critically important embedded systems. Other ongoing research projects in his laboratory design cryptographic circuits for low power chips, and chips that can resist attacks by particularly well-equipped adversaries.

Speaker Robert DeLeo

A new state voucher program funded by the Massachusetts legislature gives small and medium-sized businesses (<50 FTEs) access to the University’s leading-edge research facilities at reduced rates. Over thirty core facilities, from 3D printing to x-ray scattering, are available for use with the subsidy program.

The Institute for Teaching Excellence & Faculty Development

Two M2M faculty members, Michele Markstein, biology, and Dong Wang, biochemistry and molecular biology, have received 2018-19 Lilly Fellows for Teaching Excellence awards. Sponsored by The Institute for Teaching Excellence and Faculty Development (TEFD), the Lilly Fellowship is a competitive award program, established in 1986, enables promising junior faculty to cultivate teaching excellence in a special yearlong collaboration.

DeLeo's Invitation

Join us for House Speaker Robert DeLeo and MassDevelopment President Lauren Liss' announcement of the state voucher program funded by the Massachusetts legislature which gives small and medium-sized businesses subsidized access to more than 30 of our leading-edge, research Core Facilities.

Friday, April 6
1:30 p.m.

S330/340 Life Science Laboratories
UMass Amherst

ADDFab Lunch-n-Learn with Nanoscribe

Monday, April 9 - 12:00pm LSL N210 (lunch provided)

Join us for an informational seminar. Meet Nanoscribe and learn about their 3D printing technology. We need your input to determine whether we add this technology to ADDFab.

Lunch-n-Learn with ADDFab and Carbon3D

Rescheduled-Friday, April 6 - 12:00pm LSL N210 (lunch provided)

Join us for an informational seminar. Meet Carbon3D and learn about their 3D printing technology. We need your input to determine whether we add this technology to ADDFab.