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  • UMass Amherst hosts U.S. Senate Candidates Forum Nov. 8
    11/12/2009
    Bowker Auditorium boasted a full house Sunday, Nov. 8 as candidates running for the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of Edward M. Kennedy answered questions at a public forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts and public radio stations WFCR and WNNZ. Candidat...
  • Huber Featured in Science Nation for Green Energy Biofuels Research
    08/19/2009
    George Huber, the UMass Amherst chemical engineer whose quick, single-step process for turning sawdust, plant stalks and other cellulosic waste into green gasoline, has again received high-profile, national recognition for biofuels research in the National Science Foundation's online magazine...
  • Creating New Engineers in a New Way at UMass Amherst
    07/20/2009
    With a five-year National Science Foundation grant to support scholarships, the College of Engineering at UMass Amherst has dramatically increased the odds of attracting bright, motivated transfer students from community colleges and other programs who will graduate as well-rounded engineers....
  • UMass Amherst's Derek Lovley: Putting Microorganisms to Extraordinary New Uses
    06/19/2009
    Researcher Derek Lovley of the University of Massachusetts Amherst is a recognized pioneer in understanding how microorganisms can restore polluted environments and serve as new energy sources. Geobacter, an organism discovered by Lovley, can be used to address a broad range of environmental...
  • QD Tech Wins UMass Amherst Innovation Challenge, Receives $35,000 Grand Prize for Plan To Improve Solar Cell Output
    05/07/2009
    QD Tech has won the $35,000 grand prize in the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Innovation Challenge Final Business Plan Competition. The winning team plans to produce quantum-dot‐based materials designed to improve solar cells. The Innovation Challenge is a competitio...
  • UMass Amherst Theater Department Presents "...and Jesus Moonwalks on the Mississippi" April 30-May 9
    05/03/2009
    The UMass Amherst Theater Department presents "...and Jesus Moonwalks on the Mississippi" April 30-May 9 at the Curtain Theater at UMass Amherst. Travel through time known and unheard of in this extraordinary play by Marcus Gardley, a leading up-and-coming playwright and new faculty member in...
  • W.E.B Du Bois Archive at UMass Amherst To Be Digitized
    04/03/2009
    The W.E.B. Du Bois Library at the University of Massachusetts Amherst will digitize an estimated 100,000 items from its Du Bois collection, thanks to a $200,000 grant from the Verizon Foundation. The project will provide online access for the first time to original diaries, letters, photograp...
  • A Reason to Remember: Roth, Germany 1933-1942
    03/31/2009
    The Hatikvah Holocaust Education Center of Springfield and UMass Amherst are sponsoring the traveling exhibit "A Reason to Remember: Roth, Germany 1933-1942" at the Herter Gallery on campus. The exhibit, which continues through April 9, tells the personal stories of five families who lived...
  • Isenberg School Hosts FDIC's Sheila Bare
    03/27/2009
    Sheila Bair, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., spoke to a crowd of more than 300 at the Isenberg School of Management at UMass Amherst. Bair is on leave from her post as an Isenberg School professor. She told the audience she sees some glimmers of hope that the nation's economy...
  • Celebrate the Arrival of Spring at the UMass Sunwheel
    03/13/2009
    The public is invited to witness the sunrise and sunset associated with the vernal equinox among the standing stones of the UMass Amherst Sunwheel on Friday, March 20 and Saturday, March 21, at 6:45 a.m. and 6 p.m. both days. This year's Sunwheel events not only mark the astronomical change o...

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