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SPHHS Announces 2023 Health Innovators Challenge Winners

The School of Public Health and Health Sciences (SPHHS) at UMass Amherst held its inaugural Health Innovators Challenge on March 8, in the Life Sciences Laboratory conference room. The event served as a showcase for the innovative ideas and problem-solving abilities of SPHHS students.

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The team of Hana Power, Jenna Marando and Zachary Clark claimed top prize in both the “Policy” and “Integrating Health Equity” categories

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Adler Awarded Mahoney Life Sciences Prize

University of Massachusetts Amherst biologist Lynn Adler has won the Mahoney Life Sciences Prize for her research demonstrating that different kinds of wildflowers can have markedly different effects on the health and reproduction rate of bumblebees.

“My lab studies the role that flowers...

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Lynn Adler

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Latde Diagnostics Wins Lever’s Western Massachusetts Health Technology Challenge

Latde Diagnostics won $50,000 and Quaesar Therapeutics won $25,000 in Lever Innovation Grant funding after competing in Lever’s Western Mass Health Tech Challenge on Friday, March 3rd at the Institute for Applied Life Sciences at UMass Amherst. The two startups were selected...

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MLSC President Kenn Tuner with Latde CEO Emily Melzer

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Elateq and PepsiCo Contract to Use Greener, Cost-Effective Water Treatment Technology

Elateq’s patent-pending advanced electrochemical technology allows removal of pathogens, organic and inorganic contaminants, metals and other materials in water using less energy while recovering more water.

PepsiCo launched its green initiative and hired Elateq to install its unique...

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Elateq's chief science officer Ljiljana Rajic and chief executive officer Roderick Anderson. (Hoang 'Leon' Nguyen / The Republican)

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Srimathveeravalli Receives Acorn Innovation Grant Award from MassVentures

MassVentures has chosen Govind Srimathveeravalli, assistant professor in the UMass Amherst Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department, for a $16,250 Acorn Innovation Grant Award to support his research on a pioneering prostate cancer diagnostic technology.

Srimathveeravalli will...

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Lovely and Yao Invent "Electronic Nose" Built with Sustainably Sourced Microbial Nanowires that Could Revolutionize Health Monitoring

The Center for Personalized Health Monitoring (CPHM) researchers recently announced the invention of a nanowire 10,000 times thinner than a human hair that can be cheaply grown by common bacteria and tuned to “smell” a vast array of chemical tracers—...

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Specific molecules stick to nanowires grown on genetically modified E. coli.  Credit: UMass Amherst

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Timme-Laragy Appointed to Massachusetts Toxic Use Reduction Science Advisory Board

Professor of environmental health sciences Alicia Timme-Laragy has been selected to serve on the Massachusetts Toxic Use Reduction Science Advisory Board. She began her term in February following her November 2022 appointment by Charlie Baker, governor of Massachusetts at the time.

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Alicia Timme Laragy

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Decker Receives a Top Honor in Food Science

Professor Eric Decker, among the world’s preeminent food scientists, was honored recently in Denmark with one of his field’s major awards – the 2022 Nils Foss Excellence Prize.

The annual award, named after the late founder of FOSS, a multinational food tech company, is given to a...

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Eric Decker

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Lever Western Massachusetts HealthTech Challenge

The Western Massachusetts Health Technology Challenge will accelerate up to eight early-stage companies operating in Berkshire, Franklin, Hampden or Hampshire Counties. Finalists will participate in acceleration workshops, work with expert mentors, and pitch their concepts at a final pitch event...

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Research Aims to Expand Understanding of Link Between Chronic Stress and Heart Disease

A University of Massachusetts Amherst epidemiologist has been awarded a five-year, $4 million grant renewal by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to advance her research into the relationship between chronic stress and an increased risk of heart disease, diabetes and other age-related...

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Susan Hankinson

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Butler Featured as Spotlight Scholar

Caitlyn Butler, associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UMass Amherst, was honored as a Spotlight Scholar this month.

Butler is an environmental engineer whose research aims to make wastewater treatment more efficient and environmentally friendly...

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Caitlyn Butler

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Rotello Receives International Cope Scholar Award

The University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Vincent Rotello, has received the Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society for his work using synthetic organic chemistry to engineer the interface between the synthetic and biological worlds. The award...

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Vincent Rotello

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Aclarity Destroys PFAS Chemicals Forever in Full-Scale Pilot

The UMass startup, Aclarity, announces that it has successfully destroyed PFAS chemicals at a customer’s site, at volume, in landfill leachate, a primary source of PFAS contamination in the environment.

The full-scale pilot, sponsored by Xylem, a leading water technology company,...

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Andrew Announces an All Fabric Pressure Sensor

A team of researchers, led by Trisha L. Andrew, professor of chemistry and chemical engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, recently announced that they have synthesized a new material that solves one of the most difficult problems in the quest to create wearable, unobtrusive...

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Trisha Andrew

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Researchers Awarded Grant to Develop New RNA Fluorescence Imaging System

An interdisciplinary team at UMass Amherst, led by Mingxu You, associate proffessor of chemistry, and including co-PI Tingyi (Leo) Lu, assistant proffessor of mechanical and industrial engineering, and Sallie Schneider, adjunct assistant professor of veterinary and animal sciences, has been...

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