Professor Joshua Yang (left) and Professor Qiangfei Xia (right) are building new computer hardware with vastly improved energy-speed efficiency that can solve problems using principles similar to those used by the brain. Read more »
An expert on marine renewable energy and energy producing offshore structures, named Endowed Chair in Renewable Energy
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Performing Unprecedented Research on the Arctic Hydrologic Cycle
in Response to Climate Change
has engineered a self-assembled nanomaterial that can re-educate
immunosuppressive macrophages to act aggressively against tumors
and eat cancer cells.
Pursuing new strategies for securing integrated circuits against supply chain threats
She will lead the emerging program, which offers undergraduate and graduate degrees, as it grows to 12 tenure-track faculty and one lecturer by fall 2022.
Julie Bliss Mullen
Forbes magazine, which had previously profiled Ph.D. student Julie Bliss Mullen from the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department in a feature story last June, has now named her in the magazine’s all-star listing of “30 Under 30 for Science” in 2018. Bliss is the co-founder and CEO of Aclarity, a company she has started as a CEE doctoral student. Aclarity produces a device which uses low levels of electricity to purify and disinfect water, and even to remove metals, without filters or chemicals. The technology is based on her research at UMass Amherst. See Forbes for entire list.
Mobile Water Innovation Laboratory
A feature story in Science News looks at the water testing laboratory at UMass Amherst run by David A. Reckhow, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, and his staff. The Reckhow facility offers room for researchers and communities to test out new methods of water treatment. The story also notes that Reckhow and his team have a new Mobile Water Innovation Laboratory that can be used to visit communities and do testing on site.
Phoebe Bisnoff
In an era marked by divisive political rhetoric about prejudice of many kinds, thank goodness for the UMass Amherst chapter of Out in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (oSTEM). Founded by award-winning chemical engineering major Phoebe Bisnoff ’19, the oSTEM mission is to provide a targeted, inclusive space for the LGBTQ+ community engaged in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics to connect and network.
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