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The UMass Amherst iCons Program has selected Wei Fan, the Edward S. Price Faculty Fellow in Chemical Engineering, as their 2021-2022 iCons Teaching Fellow.
Ian Grosse
Professor Ian R. Grosse (MIE) is retiring after more than 30 years of productive service to UMass Amherst. Among many other honors, Grosse is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Most recently, he has served as associate head of biomedical engineering focused on ABET accreditation preparations for this new program.
Siyuan Rao
Assistant Professor Siyuan Rao of the Biomedical Engineering (BME) Department is currently working on a prestigious, three-year, $747,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support her groundbreaking research on the neural circuitry mechanism of autism spectrum disorders.
Richard Palmer
After more than 13 successful and productive years at the College of Engineering and the Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) Department, Dr. Richard N. Palmer is retiring. Professor Palmer, who stepped down as head of the CEE department in September of 2019, has been serving as the university director of the Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center (NE CASC) since he led its founding in 2012.
