The following are news items from programs in ECO or affiliated with ECO. All content links to the authors’ webpages.
UMass Main News Office
- Welcome to the Spring 2020 Semester at UMass Amherst
Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy welcomes the campus community to the spring 2020 semester at UMass Amherst. The challenges we face as a society, he says, require new levels of creativity and passion to f … - Diversity Lunch and Learn to Feature “Supporting International Students”
The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) is hosting a “Diversity Lunch and Learn” event on Wednesday, Feb. 5 from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. in the W.E.B. Du Bois Library, room 2601. The workshop will … - UMass Amherst Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning Presents Spring Zube Lecture Series
The department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at the University of Massachusetts Amherst will present 11 events throughout the spring 2020 semester for its Zube Lecture Series. All ev … - Battery Storage Project Wins Smart Energy Decisions Award
Smart Energy Decisions has announced UMass Amherst’s “1.3 MW Battery Storage” project has won the “Higher Education Energy Storage and Microgrids” category of their Customer Project Awards in the thir … - New Study Will Investigate Impact of Environmental Exposure on Breast Cancer Risk in Young Women
AMHERST, Mass. – A University of Massachusetts Amherst cancer epidemiologist has received a $462,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to expand her research into the effects of endocrine-d …
College of Natural Sciences
- Fishing for a sustainable solution while closing science’s gender gap
CNS faculty receive grant through ADVANCE program to study sustainability in New England’s fishing industry - Caring for the coast
UMass ecologists’ research will fill a gap in information on the needs and mortality rates of river herrings - Preventing wildfires by controlling grasses
First-of-its-kind pyrogeographic study conducted by UMass ecologists identifies combustible invasive grasses - iCons poised to transform STEM education
A $1.25 million investment expands pioneering multi-disciplinary program at UMass Amherst - Green and growing
New rankings show UMass as agricultural and sustainability leader
Building and Construction Technology Program
- Washington Post Article on MassTimber Features the Olver Design Building and BCT’s Research
Today, the Washington Post published an article about the rise of MassTimber buildings (which are predominantly made using glulam and cross-laminated timber). The article featured exemplary projects t … - Remembering R. Bruce Hoadley (1933-2019)
This fall we lost one of the most prolific former faculty in our program. R. Bruce Hoadley was a professor in the BCT program at a time when it was called “Building Materials and Wood Technology” (BMA … - BCT’s Fall 2019 Lecture Series Announced
The BCT program just announced its lecture series for the Fall semester 2019. All lectures are free and open to the public. AIA and USGBCI CES credits are available. You can find these events in our c … - BCT Welcomes Students (Back) to UMass for Fall 2019!
Welcome back to UMass to all our undergrad and grad students! And welcome to all incoming students of the class of 2023! News As we start the new semester, there is some exciting news to share: We are … - We’re Hiring: Lecturer in Sustainable Construction (at UMass’ Mount Ida Campus)
Lecturer in Sustainable Construction – Mount Ida Campus Application link: http://careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-us/job/501059/lecturer-in-sustainable-construction-mount-ida Job no: 501059 Work type: Fac …