BOSTON -- Feb. 9, 2011:Research expenditures at the ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº reached $536 million in Fiscal Year 2010, topping the $500 million mark for the first time in the school's history,…, Amherst, , $169 million, Boston, , $51.3 million, Dartmouth, , $26 million, Lowell, , $57.4 million, Worcester, , $232 million The report was released as the Committee on Science, Technology and Research of the ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº Board of Trustees met in Boston. Trustee Philip W. Johnston, who chairs…
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BOSTON - Feb.14, 2011:Illustrating its commitment to affordability, the ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº is directing $130.5 million of its own funds to student financial aid this year, President Jack M.…
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BOSTON - Feb. 15, 2011:³È×ÓÓ°Ôº President Jack M. Wilson today praised President Obama's decision to propose the creation of a $123 million fund aimed at fostering reform and…
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LOWELL - Feb. 23, 2011:The ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº endowment has surpassed $500 million for the first time in the school's history, President Jack M. Wilson announced today as the University of…
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LOWELL - The ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº Board of Trustees today, February 23,elected Henry M. Thomas III of Springfield vice chairman of the Board and named Victor Woolridge, also of Springfield,…, BIOGRAPHIES:, HENRY M. THOMAS, III, Henry M. Thomas, III serves as President of the Urban League of Springfield, Inc. Mr. Thomas is a native of Springfield, MA and has worked in the Urban League movement for thirty-five years; serving…, VICTOR WOOLRIDGE, Victor Woolridge is Vice President of Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers LLC in Hartford, Connecticut. He is a member of the Real Estate Finance Group ("REFG"). He is responsible for portfolio…
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LOWELL - Jack M. Wilson, who will step down on June 30 after serving nearly eight years as the President of the ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº, will be honored with the title President Emeritus, the…
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BOSTON - UMass President-elect Robert L. Caret is joining Governor Deval Patrick and a coalition of state officials and business leaders on the ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº Innovation Economy Partnership Mission…
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³È×ÓÓ°Ôº President Jack M. Wilson today, March 10,said the new Times of London survey that ranks the ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº as the 19th best university in the world based on…
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JERUSALEM - Thursday, March 10, 2011 - As part of the ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº Innovation Economy Partnership Mission 2011, Housing and Economic Development Secretary Greg Bialecki today announced support for a…
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BOSTON -- May 5, 2011: ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº President Jack M. Wilson today announced $200,000 in grants to UMass researchers. The awards are made annually from the, University's Commercial Ventures and Intellectual Property (CVIP) Technology Development Fund, . President Wilson established this fund in 2004 and to date has granted over $1.3 million to university researchers on all five campuses. The fund was created and maintained through reinvestment of…, Uri Galili, Ph.D. Department of Surgery, UMass Worcester "Regeneration of Ischemic Myocardium Using Alpha-gal Nanoparticles", One of the leading causes of death and a major cause of hospital admission in Western countries, myocardial ischaemia, commonly referred to as a heart attack, is the result of a reduction in blood…, T.J. (Lakis) Mountziaris, Ph.D. Department of Chemical Engineering and UMass NanoMedicine Institute, UMass Amherst "Platform Technology for Medical Diagnostics Using Optically-Responsive ZnSe…, This project aims at demonstrating the commercial potential of a new class of biological sensors that enable rapid detection, high-throughput screening, and quantitative analysis of biological…, George Huber, Ph.D.; Geoff Tompsett Department of Chemical Engineering, UMass Amherst "Production of Renewable Liquid Fuels through the Electrochemical Reduction of Biomass-Derived Oxygenates in a…, The award will go toward advancing a new a process to make renewable gasoline from aqueous carbohydrates and electricity. This process is able to convert the electricity into a renewable liquid fuel…, Stephen P. McCarthy, Ph.D.; Raymond Dunn M.D.; Ronald Ignotz, Ph.D.; Scott Wharram Ph.D. Department of Plastics Engineering, UMass Lowell; Department of Plastic Surgery, UMass Worcester; Department…, The ability to provide antibiotics and other drugs or biotherapies through safe, biodegradable bandages has the potential to accelerate and improve healing for patients undergoing surgery or…, Xingwei Wang, Ph.D.; Kurt Barringhaus, M.D. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UMass Lowell; Department of Medicine, UMass Worcester "Disposable Miniature Pressure Sensors in…, Miniature fiber optic pressure sensors developed at UMass Lowell have the potential to help cardiologists better evaluate patients prior to angioplasty, the process of mechanically widening a…, Gregory N. Tew, Ph.D. Polymer Science and Engineering, UMass Amherst "Novel Delivery Vectors Based on Protein Transduction Domain Mimics", This technology relates to the use of a novel class of biomimetic polymers as delivery vehicles for human therapies. These novel polymers are synthetic versions of cell-penetrating peptides, and can…, Kevin Fu, Ph.D. Computer Science Department, UMass Amherst "SMASH for Smarter Storage in Low-Power Devices", SMASH memory consists of plug-and-play software to reduce energy consumption in low-power devices with embedded flash memory by upwards of 50%. SMASH memory reduces manufacturing costs and makes…, Jie Song, PhD, Associate Professor Department of Orthopedics and Department of Cell Biology, UMass Worcester "Well-Defined Functional Polycarbonates and Poly(ester-carbonates) for Biomedical…, The demand for synthetic grafts that can promote the repair and reconstruction of musculoskeletal tissue defects induced by trauma, aging, cancer and metabolic diseases is quickly rising. A robust…
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