Christian Rojas, professor in the department of resource economics, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to Malta. Rojas will be studying the impact of the hotel industry in the Maltese economy as well as the impact of the recent rise of the sharing economy (i.e. Airbnb) on the formal lodging industry. Of special interest will be quantifying the effect of, and prospects for recovery after, the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, Rojas will be teaching an applied game theory course at the University of Malta.
AMHERST, Mass. – An international task force, including two University of Massachusetts Amherst computer scientists, concludes in new research that mobile health (mHealth) technologies are a viable option to monitor COVID-19 patients at home and predict which ones will need medical intervention.
The technologies – including wearable sensors, electronic patient-reported data and digital contact tracing – also could be used to monitor and predict coronavirus exposure in people presumed to be free of infection, providing information that could help prioritize diagnostic testing.
Professor Friederike Jentoft, department of chemical engineering, has been awarded a $550,000 U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science Financial Assistance Program to continue her work on acid catalyst design.
Acid catalysis plays a key role in commercially established and emerging processes for the transformation of petroleum- or biomass-derived feedstocks to chemicals and fuels. Jentoft’s project focuses on acid-catalyzed processes that are characterized by long-lived surface species, which are often trapped in the pores of a solid catalyst.
AMHERST, Mass. – In her role as the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) 2020 Distinguished Research Lecturer, Karen Giuliano, a University of Massachusetts Amherst associate professor, has examined her “unconventional journey” from caring for patients at the bedside to challenging precedent in critical care to medical device design and innovation.
AMHERST, Mass. – The Geological Society of America’s (GSA) Continental Scientific Drilling Division (CSD) has named University of Massachusetts Amherst geologist Julie Brigham-Grette as one of its two Distinguished Lecturers for 2020, which means she will be available to give online seminars on her Arctic drilling research to geologists anywhere in the world by request this fall and into spring 2021.
AMHERST, Mass. – In a new paper this week, geographer Forrest Bowlick at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and colleagues at Texas A&M offer first-hand accounts of what is required for GIS instructors and IT administrators to set up virtual computing specifically for providing state-of-the-art geographic information systems (GIS) instruction.
If the United States is at the forefront of the quantum information industrial revolution, it will benefit the U.S. economy as a whole and create new opportunities for people from disadvantageous backgrounds.
Professor Cheng Wang (Mathematics) was part of a research team that received a $350,000 National Science Foundation grant for their project "Collaborative Research: Efficient, Accurate, and Structure-Preserving Numerical Methods for Phase Fields-Type Models with Applications".
Professor Maolin Guo (Chemistry & Biochemistry) received a $150,000 grant from the Orphan Disease Center and Loulou Foundation for his project “Incorporation of functional unnatural amino acids into CDKL5 to study its function in cells”.
UMass Medical School women’s health researcher Sybil Crawford, PhD, has received the 2020 North American Menopause Society/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Menopause Journal Best Paper Award. Dr. Crawford, professor of medicine, is lead author of the study, published in the June 2019 issue of Menopause, which found that many women who are experiencing menopausal symptoms could benefit from hormone therapy with minimal health risks.