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The challenge to students in Assoc. Prof. ’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.  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  is leading a four-year $1,179,714  project to use Voice Assistant Systems, such as Amazon’s Alexa and Google Home, to detect early cognitive impairment.

Associate Professor of Chemistry  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 �鶹��Ƶ Boston.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – Jamina Scippio-McFadden, a senior program manager at the UMass Center at Springfield and a deeply engaged community leader, has been named director of the center by the �鶹��Ƶ Amherst.

“Jamina Scippio-McFadden has outstanding professional credentials and a wealth of strong ties to the community,” said Steve Goodwin, deputy chancellor at UMass Amherst. “As the center builds upon its achievements and identifies opportunities to be more deeply connected to the community, she is well prepared to provide the leadership essential to success.”

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 college. He was the epitome of a public servant – humble and selfless, strategic and ethical, and always working to expand access to higher education. A mentor at heart, he spent a great deal of this time and energy, via the American Council on Education fellows, working to develop new higher education leaders. His impact on higher education has been and will continue to be felt nationwide.

AMHERST, Mass. – The  has awarded a renewable contract to a �鶹��Ƶ Amherst team to continue groundbreaking research into the socioeconomic impacts of introducing casino gambling in the state.

More than half of faculty members at U.S. land-grant universities believe engaging with the public about science is a high priority. But at the same time, fewer than a quarter think their peers prioritize science communication, according to a new report. That gap suggests that faculty who engage with the public feel isolated and could weaken outreach programs that meet university missions and the goals of the scientific community at large, researchers say.