Energy engineering Ph.D. students Benard Tabu, center, and Visal Veng accept an $8,000 S.E.E.D. Fund grant for their Green Fertilizer project while Rist Institute for Sustainability & Energy…, Interactive Plant Wall:, Rosemary Louro, a junior public health major, received $10,000 to install a plant wall — a vertical garden with a built-in irrigation system — in a building on campus. “Academic studies show…, Green Schools Energy Modeling:, With support from a $10,000 S.E.E.D. grant, UML mechanical engineering students will build a computer model of the energy systems in a Lowell public school building, providing a roadmap for energy-…, Green Fertilizer:, Energy engineering Ph.D. students Benard Tabu, Samuel Alpert and Visal Veng received $8,000 to install and test their environmentally friendly, on-demand fertilizer system at the Rist Urban…, Food Forest:, Mechanical engineering major Alana Smith received $7,500 to grow a seven-layer “permaculture design for edible plants” in the backyard of the Centers for Women and Work, located at 150 Wilder St. on…, Labyrinth Garden:, Assistant Director of Student Life & Well-Being Hannah Monbleau received $7,500 to create a quiet and reflective space on campus where students can improve five of the dimensions of wellness:…, Eco-Informed Engineering Design for a Sustainable Future:, Mechanical Engineering Assoc. Prof. Hansen-Christopher Christopher Hansen received $5,000 to license the ANSYS Granta EduPack, a software tool that enables undergraduate students to compare the…, Green Dream Dorm:, Environmental science major Isabella Giesing received $2,000 for her project to reduce energy usage in residential buildings. The project, which was RISE climate mitigation challenge recognized…
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Students from Mill City Consulting, a venture created in their Internship in Entrepreneurship course, share their ideas to attract more students with Cobblestones owner Scott Plath, left, during a…
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BOSTON – Five outstanding University of Massachusetts faculty have been awarded the 2022 Manning Prize for Excellence in Teaching for their exemplary dedication to students and the university. The…, UMass Lowell alumni Rob and Donna Manning, established the Manning Prize in 2016, to honor UMass professors who excel in teaching and service. With the selection of this year’s honorees, thirty-five UMass faculty members now have the distinct honor of being Manning Prize…, Rob Manning, a 1984 graduate of UMass Lowell and current chairman of the UMass Board of Trustees, . “Donna and I are immensely grateful for the teachers and mentors we encountered when we were students, so we’re happy to highlight these faculty members for their powerful impact on the students’…, UMass President Marty Meehan., “We are deeply grateful to the Mannings for their generosity aimed at diversifying the next generation of UMass students, expanding our world-class facilities, and honoring our outstanding faculty…, UMass Amherst, Lorraine Cordeiro, PhD, Director of the Center for Research on Families Associate Professor of Nutrition, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Lorraine Cordeiro, Associate Professor in Nutrition and Director of the Center for Research on Families, is a community-engaged scholar who describes herself as “an educator, a scientist, a first-…, UMass Boston, Hugh Charles O’Connell, PhD, Professor of English, College of Liberal Arts Director, Composition Program, Professor Hugh O’Connell is an exemplary scholar who transforms the classroom as a space that is not just a place for traditional learning but serves to provide active support for students to advance…, UMass Dartmouth, Jennifer Wilson Mulnix, PhD, Chairperson of Philosophy Department & Professor of Philosophy, Dr. Jennifer Wilson Mulnix is Professor of Philosophy, Chairperson of the Philosophy Department, and Faculty of the Honors College. Dr. Mulnix joined UMass Dartmouth in 2006 and has actively…, UMass Lowell, Khalilah Reddie, PhD, Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry, Kennedy College of Sciences, Dr. Khalilah Reddie, Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry in UMass Lowell’s Kennedy College of Sciences, is the recipient of several teaching awards. In 2016 and 2018, she received the University…, UMass Chan Medical School, Pang-Yen Fan, MD, Professor of Medicine, Pang-Yen Fan has been a highly productive member of UMass Chan Medical School’s academic faculty since 1993. A gifted transplant nephrologist, he has contributed at every level of medical education,…
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The University of Massachusetts has received a $330,000 grant from the Richard and Susan Smith Family Foundation to support development of a pilot “early college” program that would provide high…, , However, more than 80 percent of Massachusetts high school students do not have access to an approved early college program, and few of those students live within reasonable travel distance to a…, UMass President Marty Meehan, said. “With the Commonwealth Collegiate Academy, we want to build on existing partnerships and build new ones to lower the barriers that are preventing too many young people from achieving their…, Katherine S. Newman, UMass System Chancellor for Academic Programs & Senior Vice President for Economic Development, said: “The creation of the Commonwealth Collegiate Academy is consistent with the University’s mission of providing broad access to the life-changing benefits provided by a college degree. We are…, Erika Giampietro, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Alliance for Early College, , said. “The Commonwealth Collegiate Academy can help make meaningful progress towards our goal of serving 45,000 students with high-quality Early College and ultimately closing a quarter of the…, Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education Executive Director Ed Lambert, said. “The delivery of high-quality content in accelerated career themed pathways is something that the state's business leaders strongly support. Early College works and scaling up this evidence-…, , Support, tutoring, and advising will be provided by partner high school staff members working in close collaboration with UMass staff members. The program would be, rolled out over a four-year period, beginning as soon as fall 2022. The first phase of the pilot will include UMass Dartmouth and UMass Lowell, with UMass Amherst and UMass Boston joining the pilot…
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Yahya Modarres-Sadeghi Yahya Modarres-Sadeghi , professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, has received a Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship for the 2022-23 academic…
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Michael Zink UMass Amherst professor Michael Zink, electrical and computer engineering, is principal investigator of a new $399,676 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to extend the university’s…
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Image compilation of galaxies NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope just finished taking its widest-ever near-infrared image of the universe, an area almost seven times the size of our moon. That such an…
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Exterior of Integrated Sciences Complex at UMass Boston UMass Boston has received $1.6 million in funding from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) to establish a new Biophysical…
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Image of an assortment of produce, seeds, and nuts AMHERST, Mass. – An international team led by a University of Massachusetts Amherst food and environmental virologist has received a $750,000 USDA…
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