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Karen St. Germain
Alumna Karen St. Germain, who earned her Ph.D. in 1993 from the UMass Electrical and Computer Engineering Department while doing research in The Microwave Remote Sensing Laboratory (MIRSL), has been named the new Earth Science Division director at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Wayne Burleson
Professor Wayne Burleson of the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department coauthored an pioneering new report, titled Grand Challenges for Embedded Security Research in a Connected World, resulting from a forward-looking workshop on Leadership in Embedded Security, as sponsored by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC).
Before the COVID-19 lockdown began, five members of the UMass Amherst Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) Student Chapter attended the SHPE 2020 Region 4 Leadership Development Conference (RLDC) in Newark, New Jersey, and accepted the prestigious Blue Chip Chapter Award. The award is a significant accomplishment that reflects the SHPE students’ ability to organize, coordinate, and unify their organization to accomplish their chapter goals.
Colin Gleason (l) & Jay Taneja (r)
Dr. Colin J. Gleason (Principal Investigator) of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department and Dr. Jay Taneja of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have received a four-year, $779,966 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
