Amherst native Alex Krogh-Grabbe named director of Amherst Business Improvement District

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... last October adopted the district proposed by business leaders along with representatives from the University of Massachusetts and Amherst College. That group had been working for more than two years to establish the district, which allow......omentum,” Maroulis said. “There’s a lot of energy around town.” The district includes downtown from UMass to Amherst College and the Main Street commercial district, which runs east from the town common to ... (Read Full Article)

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Research spending at UMass nears $600 million

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Research spending at the University of Massachusetts Amherst campus us up more than 7 percent over last year, while spending at the university as a whole is up ......arch. The additional $44 million represented an 8.1 percent increase, according to the release from UMass President Robert L. Caret’s office. He announced the new research figures at a Wednesday meeting of... (Read Full Article)

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Amherst chooses first BID director

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... of ideas for the area, including more decorative lighting and a shuttle bus that would connect the UMass, Amherst College and Hampshire College campuses. He also wants to encourage cooperation between the BID and ......ment, not replace, existing town services and add to the vibrancy of the commercial areas. Both the University of Massachusetts and Amherst College are participating in the district. Krogh-Grabbe said he has a number of ideas ... (Read Full Article)

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Seahorse Bioscience raises $9.4M

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...y Life Sciences Institute was created in 2002 as a joint venture of Baystate Medical Center and the University of Massachusetts Amherst with the dual missions of biomedical research and economic development. Seahorse, which was founded... (Read Full Article)

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Advanced Manufacturing: The University Bridge to Innovation

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...dvanced Manufacturing Collaborative, the Massachusetts Manufacturing Extension Partnership, and the UMass Innovation Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. (Read Full Article)

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UMass plans for satellite campus

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...wers questions during a press conference held by himself and the new chancellor, Kumble Subbaswamy, AMHERST — University of Massachusetts President Robert L. Caret said Monday he hopes to select the site of a first UMass satellite campus “by early or mid-fall,” in a move aimed at expanding the university’s statewide re... (Read Full Article)

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UMass researchers looking at impact of heavy loads on soldiers' mobility

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Graduate researcher Christopher Palmer and his team at the University of Massachusetts kinesiology department are hoping to save soldiers’ lives. AMHERST — Graduate researcher Christopher Palmer and his team at the University of Massachusetts kinesiology department are hoping to save soldiers’ lives. Palmer, who has worked for various milit......arious military branches for years, other graduate researchers and Richard Van Emmerik, director of UMass-Amherst’s Sensory-Motor Control Laboratory, recently received ... (Read Full Article)

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UMass, Delaware researchers develop low-cost process to make plastic from plants

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...nd Stavros Caratzoulas, as well as doctoral student Nima Nikbin, and postdoctoral fellow Phuong Do. AMHERST — A team led by a University of Massachusetts chemical engineer has developed a low-cost, high-yield process for making one of the most common pl......J. Dauenhauer, an assistant professor of chemical engineering, who led the team of researchers from UMass and University of Delaware. Their findings were recently published in the journal ACS Catalysis ... (Read Full Article)

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Business Monday from The Republican, May 14, 2012: Precision manufacturing gets a boost

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...tween 2000 and 2010, the 69th worst showing out of the 100 largest metropolitan areas. Read more >> UMass dining director Ken Toong named to "Most Influential' list by FoodService Director magazine FoodSer......odService Director magazine has named Ken Toong, executive director of Auxiliary Enterprises at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, to its inaugural list of the “20 Most Influential” people and organizations having an impact on th... (Read Full Article)

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A Priceless Gift | BusinessWest

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...sses and a few orders, and when I graduate next month from the Isenberg School of Management at UMass Amherst, I’ll devote myself to this full-time,” Muehlke continued. “It’s a decision the group really helped... (Read Full Article)

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Departing UMass Chancellor Robert Holub highlights campus accomplishments during his tenure

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Westfield State University president Evan Dobelle and wife Kit Dobelle have followed path of public service to serve their community

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...lved in studying education,” Kit Dobelle recalled. She became a “non-traditional student” at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where she earned her bachelor’s degree in education. Their shared interest in education and in poli......, including bachelor’s, master’s (which was the first degree he earned) and a doctoral degrees from UMass and a master’s from Harvard University, and headed four colleges – beginning at Middlesex Communit... (Read Full Article)

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MassMutual promotes Nicholas Fyntrilakis to vice-president as he aids Rebuild ...

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Valley Venture Mentors accepts four new startups

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...l investment firm River Valley Investors, said all three of the founders had some connection to the UMass-Amherst entrepreneurship program. Valley Venture Mentors accepts four new startups By Don Seiffert Related ... (Read Full Article)

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Brazil's president visits Boston, Cambridge

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...trick announced an agreement intended to forge closer links between agricultural researchers at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, a two-hour drive west of Boston, and their Brazilian counterparts. Brazil's president visits Bosto... (Read Full Article)

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Schools of Thought

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... career in that environment. Schools of Thought Posted on 10 April 2012. Written by: George O'Brien UMass Amherst Chancellor-elect Meets the Press Kumble Subbaswamy Kumble Subbaswamy says he has a comfort level wi......on be his biggest career challenge to date, the role of chancellor at another flagship campus — the Amherst facility of the University of Massachusetts. He would go on to tell a large assemblage of local media ... (Read Full Article)

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UMass researchers solve gecko superpower mystery, invent 'Geckskin'

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Now, researchers at University of Massachusetts in Amherst have unlocked that mystery. And that has led to the invention of “Geckskin,” a fabric-like device w......efense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) through a subcontract to Draper Laboratories, plus UMass-Amherst research funds. (Read Full Article)

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Qteros biofuels start-up closes Chicopee facility

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Qteros, a once promising biofuels company that had its origins in research done at University of Massachusetts at Amherst, has closed its Chicopee fermentation facility, part of an apparent retrenchment. Qteros biofuels s......ough, replaced its chief executive officer and laid off many of its employees. Susan B. Leschine, a UMass microbiologist whose research was the basis for the formation of Qteros, said the company’s problem... (Read Full Article)

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PVTA wins TSA award for keeping passengers safe from terrorist threats

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...ion is to say how safe the PVTA is to ride.” PVTA Advisory Board Chairman John Musante said that in Amherst, where he is Town Manager, “over a million passengers a year” ride the bus. He did, too, as a stude......own Manager, “over a million passengers a year” ride the bus. He did, too, as a student. “I went to UMass in the early '80s and I didn’t ... (Read Full Article)

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Incoming UMass chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy visits campus

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... made his first visit to campus Monday following his appointment to the position March 26. Incoming UMass chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy visits campus Published: Monday, April 02, 2012, 5:12 PM Updated: ......l Print kumble.JPG Republican file photoKumble Subbaswamy, seen here during a March 14 visit to the Amherst campus. He visited the campus Monday one week after being named new chancellor for the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. AMHERST ... (Read Full Article)

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Diabetes researcher Dr. Sabyasachi Sen shares insight

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...Pioneer Valley Life Sciences Institute in Springfield, a collaboration between the center and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. In this submitted interview, Dr. Sabyasachi Sen, an endocrinologist in the endocrine and diabetes ... (Read Full Article)

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Fiksu expands with Northampton office

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...d authority on mobile and pervasive computing and an associate professor on extended leave from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, the company said. He added, “There is a nice synergy with all the universities in western Massachu... (Read Full Article)

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Kumble Subbaswamy named new chancellor for UMass-Amherst

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...ysicist and provost at the University of Kentucky since 2006, will become the new chancellor at the University of Massachusetts after trustees Monday night voted to unanimously approve UMass President Robert L. Caret’s recommendation. Kumble Subbaswamy named new chancellor for UMass-Amherst Published: Monday, March 26, 2012, 7:33 PM Updated: Monday, March 26, 2012, 8:00 PM Patrick Joh... (Read Full Article)

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'Geek Gathering' event planned to give Pioneer Valley techies some face-to-face networking time

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... organized the event along with Candice J. Serafino, assistant director of career services for the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Dawn Creighton, a regional director for Associated Industries of Massachusetts, a Boston... (Read Full Article)

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