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Schiffman Awarded 2021 ‘Influential Researcher’ by the American Chemical Society
Associate Professor Jessica Schiffman, the interim department head of the Chemical Engineering Department at UMass Amherst, has been selected to the “2021 I&EC Research Class of Influential Researchers – the Americas” by the journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research (I&EC...
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Manning Family Foundation Provides $3 Million Gift to Expand Innovation
Alumnus Paul Manning ’77 and his wife, Diane, have committed $3 million through their family foundation to expand the Manning Innovation Program at the University of...
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Rauch Collaborates in Research to Develop New Treatment Technology for Alzheimer’s Disease
Jennifer Rauch, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, is collaborating on a two-year, $700,000 National Institutes of Health grant...
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hMRC Physicist will be presenting at the ISMRM Conference
Dr. Rajakumar Nagarajan's technical abstracts have been selected in the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) Conference this May 2022. The ISMRM is the premier scientific conference for MR work worldwide. This work...
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UMass Amherst Researchers Partner to Target Cancer Cells
Thayumanavan, Jerry and UMass Amherst researchers partner with the UMass Chan Medical School Cancer Center to find revolutionary ways to target cancer cells. What can be done to specifically deliver a drug to cancer cells while keeping a patient’s healthy cells working?
To find the...
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Mechanical Engineering Graduate Students Win $20,000 for their Company rStream Recycling LLC
rStream Recycling LLC has been announced as one of 10 U.S.-based early-stage companies selected to participate in VentureWell’s Propel workshop. Co-founders Ian Goodine and Ethan Walko have spent the past two years honing their innovation, with which they aim to revolutionize sustainable waste...
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Bartlett and Team Discover the Genetic Linkages Governing the Formation of Flowers
“Flowers are amazing,” says Madelaine Bartlett, professor of biology at UMass Amherst and senior author of the paper, recently published in the...
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Ganesan Named 2021 ACM Fellow
Deepak Ganesan, director of CPHM and professor in Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) has been named Fellow by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world's largest educational and scientific computing society. The ACM Fellow recognition is the organization'...
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Serio and Thompson Elected to the 2021 Class of AAAS Fellows
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the preeminent scientific institution in the United States, the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals, has elected two professors from the University of Massachusetts Amherst to...
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Martin, Perry and Peyton Join International Team to Develop Device for High Purity and Low-Cost mRNA
Craig Martin, professor of chemistry, will lead a UMass team that will spend the next three years developing a process that can deliver the quantity and quality of messenger RNA (mRNA) demanded by a new class of medicines, including the COVID vaccines, faster, cheaper and more effectively than...
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Chen Receives $2M NIH MIRA Grant to Further Support Research on IDPs
Jianhan Chen, a chemistry and biochemistry and molecular biology professor, has received a five-year, $2 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to support research in his computational biophysics lab aimed at better...
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Bridging the Gap has Never Been More Important
As global challenges become increasingly complex and unpredictable, solutions will require nimble responses. "In academia, one way this can be done is by more quickly translating research into real-world applications," says UMass Amherst Distinguished Professor in Chemistry...
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Jessica Wu and Jingyang Yan Win the Best Presenter Award in the NSF REU Poster Competition in the 2021 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE)
Jessica Wu, a junior NSF REU student, developed a robust inking and drying system for a continuous roll-to-roll (R2R) microcontact printing process, ultimately to achieve advancements in the quality-controllable, large-scale R2R printing of flexible electronics. This technology was presented in...
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Is Omicron in Massachusetts Yet? Testing Labs Are On The Lookout
IALS has been featured in GBH News
"The Institute for Applied Life Sciences at UMass Amherst has administered roughly 600,000 COVID tests over the last year or so to members of the university community and others in the surrounding public, according to institute director Peter Reinhart....
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Tiny Pilot ADDFab Collaboration
"Launched in July 2020, Massachusetts-based Tiny Pilot provides affordable and accessible remote management solutions for servers." The Advanced Digital Design and Fabrication Core (ADDFab) Facility at IALS was able to help in the manufacturing of this product.
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