David Keiser, associate professor of resource economics, and Nathan Chan, assistant professor of resource economics, have been named to the editorial board of the scholarly journal Land Economics. Chan has also been named to the editorial council of The Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.
Prashant Shenoy, a Distinguished Professor and associate dean in the College of Information and Computer Sciences, has been named the founding chair of the new Special Interest Group on Energy (SIGENERGY) of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Jane Fountain, Distinguished University Professor in political Science and director of the National Center for Digital Government, will speak on “The Moon, the Ghetto and Artificial Intelligence: Enacting Digital Government” at the Retired Faculty Association (RFA) meeting Wednesday, Feb. 10 on Zoom.
Researchers at UMass Amherst Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) today published the latest editions of its lists of the top corporate air and water polluters and top greenhouse gas emitters in the United States, based on the most recent data available from the Environmental Protection Agency.
Reducing energy demand has become a key mechanism for limiting climate change, but a new report co-authored by UMass Amherst economist Gregor Semieniuk finds practical limitations associated with large energy savings in a growing global economy, especially its lower-income parts.
Provost John McCarthy has announced the release of the results of the UMass Amherst-COACHE Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey. The COACHE Summary Report, along with summaries of the findings, are presented on the Office of Faculty Development (OFD) website, with thematic summary reports to be released biweekly through the spring semester.
Assistant professor of environmental health sciences Raphael E. Arku has been selected as one of three recipients of the 2020 Walter A. Rosenblith New Investigator Award by the Health Effects Institute (HEI). The Rosenblith Award provides funding for up to three years at a total budget of $500,000.
The Center for Research on Families has announced workshop and grant writing program available to graduate students, as part of their mission to support family researchers at all stages of their careers.
Jonathan Skolnik, associate professor of German, at UMass Amherst, has been awarded a research fellowship at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). In Spring 2021, Skolnik will be in residence as the William J, Lowenberg Memorial Fellow at the USHMM’s Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies.
