Julie Brigham-Grete, professor and department head in geosciences, will deliver the talk, on “What the Arctic Paleo Record says about Earth's Climate” at the Retired Faculty Association meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 13.
Next month, the University of Massachusetts Amherst department of music and dancewill present free concerts by faculty members from the string, piano, voice, and brass areas. Both performances will take place at 7:30 p.m. in Bezanson Recital Hall and are free and open to the public.
Yuriy Brun and Charles C. Weems Jr., both associate professors in the College of Information and Computer Sciences, have been selected as 2019 Distinguished Members of the Association for Computing Machinery.
UMass Amherst food scientist Matthew Moore has received two grants from the USDA to apply new technology in an effort to more quickly detect and trace foodborne disease caused by noroviruses and bacteria.
An article titled “Dogs as Support and Motivation for Physical Activity,” from assistant professor of kinesiology Katie Potter, has been selected as an American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) Editors’ Pick.
Anna Maria Siega-Riz, dean of the School of Public Health and Health Sciences, recently appeared on a panel titled “Innovations in Nutrition and Health” at the Future of Food Summit held in September in New York City.
Fidan Ana Kurtulus, economics, recently spoke in favor of broad-based employee ownership of firms and cooperatives and how governments can enact policies to encourage the adoption and prevalence of employee ownership and cooperatives at the United Nations General Assembly.
Assistant professor Mingxu You, chemistry, recently received a five-year, $1.9 million NIH Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) to fund his research in developing new tools – DNA-based probes – to quantify intercellular mechanical forces and understand a variety of mechano-sensitive cell signaling events at the molecular level.
College of Information and Computer Sciences associate professor Arjun Guha received a Most Influential Paper Award at the Association for Computing Machinery Object Oriented Programming Systems Languages and Applications conference.
