UMass Medical School Director of Public Safety and Chief of Police Jack Luippold is retiring from his post this week, while his successor, Deputy Chief Clanford “Leon” Pierce prepares to take the reins.
“Chief Luippold retires this week after more than 13 years at UMMS and 34 years at the university,” said John C. Lindstedt, executive vice chancellor for administration and finance. “His service to our campus has been immeasurable and we are all grateful for his leadership.”
Hack.Diversity, the New England Venture Capital Association’s initiative to help diversify the ranks of Boston’s fastest growing tech companies, has selected 17 fellows from UMass Boston this year.
Fellows participate in an eight-month career development program with mentorship, connections, and internships at venture-capital-backed tech companies.
Overall, 75 information technology, computer science, and data science fellows from 27 colleges were selected, a 50 percent increase from the previous year.
Nianqiang Wu has been appointed to the Armstrong/Siadat Endowed Professorship in Materials Science in the department of chemical engineering. Wu’s work at UMass Amherst begins in January 2020, after spending five years as a professor in the department of mechanical and aerospace engineering at West Virginia University.
Raeann LeBlanc has been named the Seedworks Endowed Clinical Assistant Professor for Social Justice in the College of Nursing. LeBlanc has been teaching both graduates and undergraduates at UMass Amherst since 2011. Her research addresses health disparities in advanced care planning and the effect of social networks on self-care among older adults.
During his sophomore year of college, UMass Amherst political science professor Paul Musgrave awoke to a changed world.
"I remember a Tuesday morning I was sleeping in because I didn't have any early classes, and my suitemate kept knocking on the door, saying 'You need to come see the TV right now.'"
The 9/11 attacks that day, along with the Bush v. Gore decision and the run-up to war in Iraq, were central to Musgrave's decision to pursue a career devoted to making sense of the political tumult he was witnessing.
AMHERST, Mass. – Zeolites crystals, used among other things for refining petroleum to gasoline and biomass into biofuels, are the most-used catalysts by weight on the planet, and discovering mechanisms of how they form has been of intense interest to the chemical industry and related researchers, say chemist Scott Auerbach and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. They hope their advance on a new way to understand zeolite structure and vibrations leads to new, tailor-made zeolites for use in sophisticated new applications.
The New England College Personnel Association (NECPA) has named higher education Ph.D. student Patricia (Tita) Feraud-King Graduate Student of the Year and recent graduate of the higher education master's program, Molly Hansen, Emerging Professional of the Year.
AMHERST, Mass. – In a new paper, a team of evolutionary biologists and geneticists led by senior author associate professor Ana Caicedo, with first author Hamid Razifard at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and others, report that they have identified missing links in the tomato’s evolution from a wild blueberry-sized fruit in South America to the larger modern tomato of today.
Evolutionary cell biologist Lillian Fritz-Laylin, biology, recently was granted a three-year, $300,000 Smith Family Award for Excellence in Biomedical Research to support her research on the pathogenesis of the brain-eating amoeba Naegleria fowleri. The amoeba gets inside swimmers’ noses, crawls up the olfactory nerve and into the brain where they destroy tissue.
"DownBeat" magazine, the top publication for "jazz, blues, and beyond," has included a recent recording by UMass associate professor of music Felipe Salles on their list of their 100 top-rated albums for 2019.
“The Lullaby Project and Other Works for Large Ensemble,” which was actually released in late 2018, was inspired by traditional Brazilian lullabies, and featured the debut of the Felipe Salles Interconnections Ensemble, an 18-piece jazz orchestra that combines Brazilian, Latin-American and classical influences.