UMass Amherst College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) professor Gerome Miklau, associate professor Andrew McGregor and alumni Chao Li and Michael Hay are scheduled to receive the Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award at the 2020 Association for Computing Machinery Symposium on the Principles of Database Systems (ACM PODS) for their 2010 paper, “Optimizing Linear Counting Queries under Differential Privacy.”
Professors Qiangfei Xia and Jianhua (Joshua) Yang of the electrical and computer engineering (ECE) department have published yet another in a long series of papers in the family of “Nature” academic journals, this one in the latest issue of “Nature Electronics.” In this paper, the two ECE researchers and their research team described their construction and operation of a three-dimensional (3D) circuit composed of eight layers of integrated memristive devices in which the novel stru
Caryn Brause, associate professor in the department of architecture, served as issue editor of the recently published issue of the journal “Technology | Architecture + Design.”
Brause is a founding editorial board member of the journal, which is dedicated to the advancement of scholarship in the field of building technology, with a particular focus on its translation, integration, and impact on architecture and design.
Siobhan Meï, a Ph.D. candidate in comparative literature, has been selected as a Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellow in Women’s Studies for 2020.
The Woodrow Wilson Women’s Studies Fellowship program supports promising humanities and social science Ph.D. candidates whose work address women’s and gendered issues in interdisciplinary and original ways. Ten fellows were selected this year.
AMHERST, Mass. – A UMass Amherst class that has students work on translating important community health information from English to Spanish has stepped up to take on helping the Commonwealth of Massachusetts translate important information on COVID-19.
UMass Boston’s McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies and College of Nursing and Health Sciences have awarded a $10,000 seed grant to the research team of Lisa Heelan-Fancher and Laurie Nsiah-Jefferson.
UMass Medical School has been awarded a five-year, $1.4 million renewal of the Initiative for Maximizing Student Development training grant from the National Institutes of Health. This funding enables the school to provide financial and academic support to Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences students from backgrounds underrepresented in the field. Kate Lapane, PhD, and Brian Lewis, PhD, are principal investigators for the grant.
AMHERST, Mass. – To address the COVID-19 pandemic, particle physicist Andrea Pocar at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an international team of “Dark Matter” scientists are now designing and circulating plans for a simplified mechanical ventilator. They offer an adaptable device using parts found almost anywhere, Pocar says.
AMHERST, Mass. – A University of Massachusetts Amherst graduate student produced approximately 400 personal protection face shields for local health care workers battling the COVID-19 pandemic. The shields have been donated to Baystate Medical Center in Springfield.
Guide to Online Schools has named UMass Boston’s online master’s in history program the No. 1 program for Best Online Master’s in History Degrees in 2020.