Polymer chemists and materials scientists have achieved some notable advances that mimic Nature, but one of the most common and practical features of cells has so far been out of reach – intracellular compartmentalization. It refers to the way many different organelles, vesicles and other “water-in-water” soft structures in the cell, contain and isolate chemical reactions and processes. It also lets reaction products be selectively shared with end users inside the cell.
The UMass Amherst Libraries’ Digital Scholarship Center is assisting Eric Poehler, associate professor of classics, in completing the Pompeii Artistic Landscape Project, for which he received a $245,000 grant from the Getty Foundation.
From Sept. 6 through 8, the department of music and dance will host the 2019 Five College New Music Festival, featuring four concert programs of music by Five College faculty composers, as well as world premieres, electro-acoustic works and pieces by modern masters from the 20th and 21st centuries.
Xian Du, mechanical and industrial engineering, has received a two-year $498,764 grant from the National Science Foundation to support his research into a new sensing and control technology for roll-to-roll (R2R) printing.
Brian Kane, Massachusetts Arborists Association Professor in the department of environmental conservation, recently received an award from Eversource and an award from the International Society of Arboriculture.
In an effort to find ways to improve long-term outcomes for people with opioid use disorder, UMass Amherst epidemiology researcher Elizabeth Evans set out to study the obstacles to treating this chronic condition with an effective medication, buprenorphine-naloxone.
“Paperbark” literary magazine, which celebrates the confluences between environmental sciences and the humanities through prose, poetry, artwork and photography, is seeking graduate students for staff positions (stipend included).
More than a dozen researchers from three UMass system campuses met recently for a daylong workshop to develop cross-campus collaborations on research related to Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs).
“Composing Capital: Classical Music in the Neoliberal Era,” the first book by Marianna Ritchey, assistant professor of music history, has just been published by the University of Chicago Press.
