AMHERST, Mass. - Ever wish your car got better mileage? How about 612 miles per gallon? That’s exactly the mileage attained by a car designed by a group of six University of Massachusetts mechanical engineering students this past academic year. Led by professor Ian Grosse, the team took top honors at the National Supermileage Design Competition held in Marshall, Mich., May 30-31. The UMass vehicle placed first in the U.S. and third worldwide. This was the University’s third year in the international collegiate competition, which is sponsored by the Society of Automotive Engineering.
AMHERST, Mass. - In a new book on public education, a University of Massachusetts professor says an amendment to the U.S. Constitution may be needed to guarantee equal funding for all children while barring any government body from determining educational content.
AMHERST, Mass. - Two University of Massachusetts graduates hold key positions on NASA''s Mars Pathfinder mission. And both are downright euphoric about it.
AMHERST, Mass. - Vanessa Rivera has been hired as director of the minority engineering program at the University of Massachusetts. Rivera, of Amherst, has a doctorate in bilingual counseling and higher education administration from UMass, and 10 years of experience in teaching and programming for minority students. Rivera served as director of student support services at Mount Wachusett Community College prior to accepting the position at UMass. In announcing the appointment, College of Engineering Dean Joseph I. Goldstein said that Rivera comes to UMass with "an excellent background and a real enthusiasm for improving our recruitment and advising activities for minority students."
AMHERST, Mass. - The following is a statement issued by University of Massachusetts Chancellor David K. Scott in response to recent allegations by Connecticut sports agent John Lounsbury concerning the UMass basketball program.
AMHERST, Mass. - A recently graduated geologist is one of two scientists with University of Massachusetts degrees who are working on NASA''s Mars Pathfinder mission. Nathan Bridges earned his doctorate in geology this past April, before being hired by NASA''s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., for a postdoctoral position.
AMHERST, Mass. - A University of Massachusetts graduate is the chief scientist on NASA’s Mars Pathfinder mission. Matthew Golombek, who has worked with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the mission since its inception five years ago, studied the geology of Mars, Earth, and the moon while earning his master’s and doctoral degrees in geology from the University in 1978 and 1981, respectively.
AMHERST, Mass. - New University of Massachusetts professor Jacques Penelle likens his work in polymer chemistry to architecture: "I want to create new molecular architectures, and then evaluate them."Polymers -- commonly called plastics -- are long chains of atoms, sometimes thousands of atoms. "We’re trying to find procedures to arrange atoms in specific ways. There are many possibilities," Penelle says. "My job is to develop new ways to place atoms in the molecular structure."
AMHERST, Mass. - Nearly a decade ago, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl declared Germany would build a national Holocaust memorial in Berlin. Now, after years of failed attempts and rancorous debate, University of Massachusetts English and Judaic Studies professor James E. Young has been named the only foreign member of a search commission that will finally choose a design.
AMHERST, Mass. - University of Massachusetts Amherst Chancellor David K. Scott has issued a statement praising the work of the House and Senate budget conferees who earlier today approved an increase in funding for higher education in general and the University in particular.
