Krish Thiagarajan Sharman
An expert on marine renewable energy and energy producing offshore structures, named Endowed Chair in Renewable Energy
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Destenie Nock
Alumna Destenie Nock has joined the departments of Engineering & Public Policy (EPP) and Civil & Environmental Engineering (CEE) at Carnegie Mellon University this fall. She will begin as a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in EPP with an adjunct-faculty appointment to CEE, before starting as a tenure-track assistant professor in both EPP and CEE in the 2020 academic year. She earned her Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at UMass in 2019, where her research focused broadly on energy systems modelling. She applied optimization and decision analysis to evaluate the reliability and sustainability of electricity grids in New England and Liberia.
Connor MacFarlane (center)
First-year student Connor MacFarlane of the Chemical Engineering Department won the Innovation Challenge Minute Pitch competition on October 16, thus earning a first-place prize of $1,000 in addition to an audience choice award of $250. MacFarlane’s prize-winning venture is a trailblazing insulin-delivery system for all insulin-dependent diabetics. The Minute Pitch was the initial stage of the four-part Innovation Challenge, which resumes on November 20 with the Seed Pitch.
Kara Peterman
The UMass News Office reports that Kara Peterman of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department is one of a diverse group of faculty each to receive a 2019-2020 Sustainability Curriculum Fellowship, an interdisciplinary program that includes a $1,000 professional development grant and monthly brainstorming sessions to learn about best practices. The News Office says that Peterman will attend a green building expo or visit an international green building center for inspiration and perspective as she aims to make sustainability a fundamental design constraint in a new course to be offered in the spring, Unified Structural Design. The fellowship is designed to help UMass faculty cultivate teaching excellence in sustainability. See News Office story: 12 Faculty Receive Sustainability Curriculum Fellowship
