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Deater-Deckard and Team Study Adolescent Risky Decisions
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Developmental psychologist Kirby Deater-Deckard, psychological and brain sciences, is a co-investigator on a recently renewed five-year, $3.7 million grant from the NIH’s National Institute on Drug Abuse to support a research team studying the environmental and neurobiological risk factors...
Kirby Deater-Deckard
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Marlin Receives $250,000 NSF Community Research Grant
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
UMass Center for Data Science professor Benjamin Marlin has received a three-year, $250,000 National Science Foundation grant from its Computer and Information Science and Engineering Community Research Infrastructure program to develop mResearch, a platform for reproducible and extensible research...
Benjamin Marlin
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Biswas Granted Amazon Research Award
Tuesday, February 12, 2019
Joydeep Biswas, assistant professor in the College of Computer and Information Sciences, has recently been awarded an Amazon Research Award of $80,000 to fund his research on modeling dynamic human environments for robot perception. “Autonomous mobile robots need to accurately and...
Joydeep Biswas
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"Pass It On" Faculty and Staff Book Circle Forming
Tuesday, February 12, 2019
The Pass It On Book Circle invites faculty and staff to participate in its third session of reading and discussing “Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People” by Mahzari R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald. This book circle, which will have six sessions in all, is supported by a ...
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Public Engagement Project to Present “Public Engagement 101” Workshop
Monday, February 11, 2019

The Public Engagement Project (PEP) will present “Public Engagement 101: Goal Setting, Network Mapping and Message Development,” a workshop and discussion open to anyone interested in improving their public engagement efforts, on Thursday, Feb. 21 from noon to 2 p.m. in the Hadley Room of the Campus Center. 

Amy Schalet and Ezra Markowitz
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UMass Amherst University Without Walls Director Ingrid Bracey Retires
Monday, February 11, 2019
After thirty-two years working for the University Without Walls (UWW), with 10 of those as UWW’s director, Ingrid Bracey has retired. UWW faculty members Abigail Dallmann and Lisa Modenos have been appointed interim co-directors. Bracey taught and advised UWW students for two decades...
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Successful Community Campaign Raises Over $440,000
Monday, February 11, 2019
More than 600 university employees donated $440,334 to 411 local, national and global nonprofit organizations through the UMass Amherst Community Campaign (UMACC). The campaign enables faculty and staff to donate to any registered nonprofit of their choice. “Once again, I am proud our campus...
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Shakespeare Scholar to Address Retired Faculty Association
Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Shakespeare scholar Anthony Burton will give a talk on “Depicting Shakespearian Hamlet Through Three Paintings” at the Retired Faculty Association meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 13 at 11 a.m. in Campus Center 917. Burton is a member of the Shakespeare Association of America and a regular...
Anthony Burton
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Faculty Receive Seed Funding as Part of MTTC Acorn Innovation Fund
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Three research projects at UMass Amherst are among 13 at colleges and universities across the state sharing $195,000 in seed funding from the Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center (MTTC) Acorn Innovation Fund. The $15,000 grants were awarded to researchers from the UMass system, Boston...
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Video: Spring at the Libraries, 2019
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Spring semester events, including author talks, are happening in the UMass Amherst Libraries: the 25th annual Du Bois Lecture and Dinner; an edible book contest; FalCon, the Libraries’ first mini comic convention; an Evening of Sights and Sounds with alumnus Jim Metzner of Pulse of the...
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