Three startup companies with UMass Amherst ties earned cash prizes at the inaugural 鈥淎mherst Pitch Night鈥 at AmherstWorks last week. The event, hosted by representatives from UMass鈥檚 Berthiaume鈥
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Professor Julie Brigham-Grette, geosciences, has been honored by Germany鈥檚 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation with one of its coveted Humboldt Research Awards , which will support her research鈥
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Laetitia La Follette, associate professor and chair of the department of history of art and architecture, was elected to a three-year term as President of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA鈥
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The Whitcomb quadruplets鈥 names begin with A, B, C and D 鈥 but their parents didn鈥檛 plan it. They just picked four names that they liked, and it turned out that way. Likewise, three of the four鈥
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The challenge made by the UMass Dartmouth student chapter of Engineers Without Border set seems simple 鈥 build a balsa wood bridge. And then withstand up to 100 pounds of paper piled on top. Students鈥, Olivia Brochu, (鈥19) of Oxbridge, MA, president of the chapter, said the project aims to challenge vocational students to solve practical problems that help them see the value of an engineering career and to鈥, Benjamin Poirier, laid each package of paper on top of the bridge. Some bridges collapsed with five or six reams. But it was a team from Greater New Bedford Voc Tech that won the prize 鈥 with 30 reams of paper, or鈥, John Marques, , a junior at Greater New Bedford, found the project a good challenge. 鈥淚t鈥檚 an opportunity to learn teamwork and time management,鈥 said the New Bedford resident. , Aidan Sylvia, from Dartmouth echoed that. 鈥淲e had three days to get it done,鈥 he said. , Riley Darwell, , a junior from Dartmouth, said she got good insight into the process, especially in how much work it takes 鈥渢o perfectly plan something so it is safe for the public.鈥 She plans to attend UMass鈥
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Appointed to the Board by Governor Mitt Romney in 2003, John was an exemplary higher education leader who drew on his experiences growing up in Detroit and being the first in his family to attend鈥
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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鈥
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Each week, Asst. Teaching Prof. Farris-Leslie Leslie Farris gives students in her Chemistry II class a quiz to make sure they鈥檙e grasping complex topics such as thermodynamics, kinetics and鈥
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The challenge to students in Assoc. Prof. Rooney-Varga-Juliette Juliette Rooney-Varga 鈥檚 course on climate change was to come up with ways to reduce the university community鈥檚 carbon dioxide (CO2)鈥
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BOSTON 鈥 Immigration scholar Marcelo Sua虂rez-Orozco, as a teenager sent to the U.S. by parents seeking to save him from Argentina鈥檚 gathering Dirty War, today was unanimously selected to become鈥, More about Marcelo Sua虂rez-Orozco, Marcelo Sua虂rez-Orozco, 63, is the inaugural Wasserman Dean at the University of California Los Angeles, where he leads the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, which on his watch鈥, More about the search process, The UMass Boston Chancellor Search Committee, with Trustee R. Norman Peters serving as chair and UMB Professor Jean Rhodes serving as vice chair, held its first meeting on August 27, 2019, and said鈥
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