BCT’s ‘False Color’ Exhibit is Open!

BCT’s ‘False Color’ Exhibit is Open!

From now to October 28th, 2017, UMass students, faculty, and the general public are invited to visit the UMass Design Building Gallery during opening hours (9am - 4pm on weekdays) to view BCT's latest exhibition on all things related to "False Color" visualizations. Showcasing work by our faculty and graduate students, this exhibition visually (and interactively) explores the various technologies of our research: stress analysis, energy analysis, thermography, laser scanning, and more... BCT would like to especially thank Trimble Inc. for their support through our Trimble Technology Lab. We are also tremendously grateful to Peter Chrzanowski, Sharon Mehrman, and Alexander Okscin for their invaluable hands-on help in putting this exhibition together. The following synopsis explains our thoughts on this exhibition: As engineers, scientists and designers we are often faced with data that is not immediately comprehensible in its raw form, consisting solely of numeric values and ranges. Either the volume of such data is too large to lend itself to easy evaluation or it is too limited...
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Hoque’s IUMAT research featured on NextCity

Hoque’s IUMAT research featured on NextCity

BCT Assistant Professor Simi Hoque's research into the "Integrated Urban Metabolism Analytical Tool" and her NSF CAREER award were just featured in a blog article on NextCity. Link: https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/math-tool-big-data-planning-solution   Reposted from: https://bct.eco.umass.edu/news/hoques-iumat-research-featured-on-nextcity/...
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Graduate Student, Lucas Griffin Awarded Best Oral Presentation at the Life Sciences Graduate Research Symposium

Graduate Student, Lucas Griffin Awarded Best Oral Presentation at the Life Sciences Graduate Research Symposium

Lucas Griffin has been awarded best oral presentation at the Life Sciences Graduate Research Symposium held November 20th. Lucas presented on some of his research in Culebra with a talk on "Consistent individual-level behavioral responses of immature green turtles (Chelonia mydas) to snorkeler disturbance". ...
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Peggi Clouston Receives Grant for Cross Laminated Timber Research and Featured on WNPR

Peggi Clouston Receives Grant for Cross Laminated Timber Research and Featured on WNPR

WNPR Broadcast http://wnpr.org/post/can-creating-bigger-market-timber-help-preserve-connecticut-woodlands#stream/0   UMass Amherst study to show viability of underused wood in construction timber panel Courtesy of UMass News and Media Relations October 21, 2015 Contact: Janet Lathrop 413/545-0444 AMHERST, Mass. – A new three-year study funded by a $390,000 National Science Foundation grant to researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is expected to show that a strong new building material known as cross laminated timber (CLT) can incorporate currently underused wood species grown in the northeast United States, creating a market for local trees and opening jobs in rural communities. CLT is made from layers of dimension lumber laid crosswise, then glued and laminated together. Because it is a composite, it is forgiving of defects, which means that small-diameter and lower quality woods that are abundant in the Northeast offer real potential as source materials for CLT, says lead investigator Peggi Clouston, associate professor of environmental conservation at UMass Amherst. One of her study goals is to show the structural viability of using underused, low-value...
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