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The Research area is committed to keeping the campus community and its partners informed of news and information that helps to expand their capacity for research and innovation. ACCESS is issued approximately every 4 weeks. Circulation includes the Amherst campus and external friends and partners.
Recent ACCESS Issues
Vol. 5, Iss. 2, October 8, 2008
Staff Profile: Sandy Teale
Lab Profile: Exercise Physiology Lab
Technology Transfer Part 2: The Process
Call for Job Participation-Clean Energy Jobs Conference
Report Predicts Growth in Mass. Life Sciences Jobs
Central Microscopy Imaging Turns all digital
Funding Opportunities
-National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance
-National Water Institute Program
-American Council of Learned Societies
-L'Oreal USA
-Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
-2009 Brookdale Leadership in Aging Fellowship Program
-Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Related Funding
Announcements
-Campus Compact Seeks Nominees for New Leadership Award
-Clean Energy Connections Exhibitor Tables Available
-Improvements made to Grants and Contracts Databae Interface
-Research Area consolidates website for Funding Opportunities
-Video available of Speech at UMass Amherst by Sept. 11 Fund Director
-OPEN ACCESS DAY at Du Bois Library
-Call for Abstracts
Events
-October 9, 16, 23, 30: National Science Foundation's Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Seminars
-October 14, 21, 28: (Group 1) Successful Proposal Development for New Faculty
-October 15, 22, 29: (Group 2) Successful Proposal Development for New Faculty
-October 9: OGCA Brown Bag lunch on Proposal Budgeting Steps and Budget Justifications
-October 16: OGCA Brown Bag lunch on Open NSF Session-Q&A
-October 22: OGCA Brown Bag lunch on The Landscape Ahead
-October 29: OGCA Brown Bag lunch on NIH eSNAP Progress Reports
-November 5: OGCA Brown Bag lunch on Information Session; using GAMS, PureEdge, & Adobe forms to submit Grants.gov applications
-October 14-16: Fall 2008 Polymer Event
-October 23: William E. Mahoney Seminar
-October 23: Pioneer Valley STEM Showcase and Symposium
-October 24: Professor Senay Solak will speak on "Air Traffic Flow Management in the Presence of Uncertainty"
-October 30: Lecture Series featuring Professor Victoria McGuffin from Michigan State University
-October 30-31: Two day Symposium: "Woman and Work"
-November 22: Clean Energy Connections; MassMutual Center
OGCA Histograms
New Faculty: College of Humanities and Fine Arts, School of Nursing, School of Public Health and Health Sciences
September Grants and Contracts Snapshot
Vol. 5, Iss. 1, September 10, 2008
Staff Profile: Carol Betsch
Institute Profile: MassNanoTech
Technology Transfer Part I: Ten Myths about Tech Transfer
UMass Amherst Weblog Debuts on MassLive.com
Campus Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive and Active
Funding Opportunities
- Faculty Research Grant/Healey Endowment Grant
- UMass Amherst Research Leadership in Action Awards
- Microsoft New Faculty Fellowship Program
- Microsoft Research & Live Labs PhD Fellowships
- Arts Writers Grants
- Intel Corporation Inspire/Empower Challenge
- ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships
- American Cancer Society Funding Opportunities
- Digital Media and Learning Grants
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellowships
- American Health Association Foundation
- William T. Grant Foundation/Spencer Foundation
- American Council of Learned Societies Collaborative Research Awards
- National String Project Consortium Grants
- Geography and Conservation Grants
Grant - Related Service Special Education Research Grants - Multiple Drinking Water Projects Grants
Announcements
- Biofuels Conference Registration Deadline Extended
- OGCA Brown Bag Series
- Passport UMass Fall 2008 Now Available
- VPR invites Faculty to Attend Invention to Venture 2008
- Fall TEI Environmental Lecture Series
- UMass Amherst Library Announces New Branch
- Campus Compact Seeks Nominees for New Leadership Award
Events
- September 11: IGERT Seminar: "Commercialization of Nano-Energy discoveries, partnering with universities and scientists"
- September 18: IGERT Seminar: "Evaluating and Commercializing Nanoscale Science"
- September 19: First annual Conference on Cellulosic Biofuels
- September 19: Professor Daron Acemoglu talks "Bayesian Learning on Social Networks"
- September 25: IGERT Seminar: TBA on the subject of current research in nanotechnology
- September 27: Invention to Venture (I2V)
- September 27: Renaissance Dance Conference-Romeo and Juliet and MacBeth
- October 2: IGERT Seminar: "Societal Implications of Nanotechnology
- October 3: Fall 2008 INFORMS Speaker Series "Enterprise of the Future"
- October 3: Second Annual Nanotechnology and Society: Emerging Opportunities and Challenges
- October 3-4: 7th Annual UMass Amherst Food Science Alumni Weekend
- October 6: UMass Dartmouth-Ocean Energy for New England Conference
- October 9: IGERT Seminar: "Energy Industry"
- October 14-16: Fall 2008 Polymer Event
- October 16: IGERT Seminar: "Massively alignment of nanowires and carbon nanotubes using block copolymer patterns for high speed electronic applications
-October 23: UMass Amherst Chemisty's annual William E. Mahoney Seminar
-October 23: IGERT Seminar: TBA on the subject of current research in nanotechnology
-October 24: Fall 2008 INFORMS Speaker Series on "Air Traffic Flow Management in the Presence of Uncertainty
-October 30: Chemistry's Department's Proctor & Gamble Lecture Series
-October 30: IGERT Seminar: "Nanoscale Product Commercialization"
October 30-31: Symposium on Women and Work: Choices and Constraints
Histograms
New Faculty: College of Natural Resources and the Environment, School of Education, and College of Engineering
August Grants & Contracts Snapshot
Vol 4, Iss. 12, August 13, 2008
Staff Profile: Marie-Francoise Walk
Facilities Profile: Cold Spring Orchard
Research NOW: Campus Research for Public Policy
Campus Secures Life Sciences Funding and Building UMass CVIP Ranked First in the State
Bill Considered to Create National Innovation Council Funding Opportunities
- Technology Innovation Program Grants
- Art Cataloguing and Documentation Funding
- Childhood Obesity Research Grant
- Social Science Research Council's Abe Fellowships
- Cottrell Scholar Awards
- Lymphoma Research Grant
- Biomedical Research Award
- Cancer Prevention Research Grant
- Child Health Research Awards
- Health Care Research Grants
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Price for Cancer Research
- Music Science Research and Archive Grants
- Dissertation Development Program Research Directors
- Kresge Health Initiative & Environmental Initiative
Announcements
- Bradley-Amsterdam Flights Suspended
- NSF-DoD MOU Funds Research for National Security
- "TechCast at Umass": The Portable Hug Vest
- Emrick Secures Patent for Polymer Discovery
Events
- September 19: First Annual Conference on Cellulosic Biofuels
Histograms
June and July Grants & Contracts Snapshot
Vol. 4, Iss. 11, June 11, 2008
Staff Profile: Kim Fill
Facilities Profile: Joseph Troll Turf Research Center
Campus Energy Summit Showcases Faculty Research
More Support Now Available for Fulbright Exchanges
Industry Partners Connect to Campus
Funding Opportunities
- Semiconductor Research Corporation BEP & Packaging Grants
- Gulf War Illness Research Program
- Childhood Obesity Research Grant
- Environmental Education Initiative
- Breast Cancer Research Funding
- Renewable Energy & Wildlife Conservation Research Prize
- Australian-American Health Policy Fellowships Program
- Marijuana Policy Project Grant
- Health & Society Scholars Program
Announcements
- Research Leadership in Action Awardees Named
- House Committee Votes on Nanotechnology Bill
- Passport UMass Summer Issue Available
- UMass Conference Services Survey
Events
- June 12: OGCA Brown Bag Lunch on SBIR and STTR
- June 13-14: The School of Education Centennial Celebration
- June 17: OGCA Brown Bag Lunch on "Prop and Award"
- June 18: Turf Research Field Day
- June 20-21: 2008 Regional Sustainable Energy Summit
- June 22-28: Juniper Summer Writing Institute
- June 24: "Best Practices in Science Education" conference
- August 10-13: 2008 IWA Membrane Research Conference
Histograms
May Grants & Contracts Snapshot
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