A business incubator working to improve the lives of patients with heart, lung, blood and sleep disorders is expanding its reach to the next generation of biotech and medical device entrepreneurs.
The UMass Worcester Prevention Research Center at UMass Medical School has been awarded a $3.75 million, five-year grant renewal from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. The center, co-led by Stephenie Lemon, PhD, and Milagros Rosal, PhD, has been part of the nationwide Prevention Research Center consortium since 2009.
Coburn Hall, UMass Lowell’s oldest and most iconic building, is filled with history. But for decades, one of its most colorful chapters has been hidden from sight — covered by a thick curtain and two coats of paint.
No longer.
As part of Coburn’s $47 million top-to-bottom renovation and expansion, art conservators have pulled back that curtain, stripped away the paint and revealed the WPA-era murals that cover an entire wall of the building’s former ballroom.
Their mission was Mars. But for two days in January, 25 grade-school students from South Korea landed at UMass Lowell, in the hands of Yuko Oda and four of her student aides.
The challenge to students in Assoc. Prof. Juliette Rooney-Varga’s course on climate change was to come up with ways to reduce the university community’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 10,000 pounds over the span of 10 weeks.
The student team of Lena Dziechowski, Megha Sudheendra and Brittany Segill came up with a way to reduce five times those emissions in half the time.
Each week, Asst. Teaching Prof. Leslie Farris gives students in her Chemistry II class a quiz to make sure they’re grasping complex topics such as thermodynamics, kinetics and chemical equilibrium.
With up to 150 students spread over several sections of the course, grading the weekly quizzes and returning them to students in a timely manner is no small task.
The Office of Undergraduate Research recently announced the winners of the 2019 Winter grants.
The winners include:
Aleksey Bourgoun, Mechanical Engineering - Supervisor: Professor Hangjian Ling
- Title: “An experimental study of the life-time of underwater super-hydrophobic surfaces”
Stefan Bruendl, Computer & Information Science - Supervisor: Professor Hua Fang
- Title: “Researching 60 GHz communication with USRP machines”
Sophia Costa, Chemistry & Biochemistry - Supervisor: Professor Shuowei Cai
Assistant Professor of Computer Science Xiaohui Liang is leading a four-year $1,179,714 National Institute on Aging (NIA)-funded research project to use Voice Assistant Systems, such as Amazon’s Alexa and Google Home, to detect early cognitive impairment.
Associate Professor of Chemistry Jason Green and his research group are looking to understand how to use chemical reactions that cause molecules to assemble themselves into dynamic and responsive materials. Green says there are many reasons why you’d want to do this.
BOSTON—Declaring him a candidate who can be “a transformational and inspirational leader for Boston’s public university of transformation,” a 21-member search committee today unanimously named UCLA dean Marcelo Suárez-Orozco as the sole finalist for the position of chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Boston.