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PSE students and faculty doing one of the things they love best - Outreach!

Holyoke Public Schools Media Center created this terrific video of the outreach event from January 29, 2020!

.Holyoke STEM Academy / Conte Polymer... Read More...

February 5, 2020

PSE faculty selected Hantao Zhou for the Santos Go award for 2019. The Santos Go Memorial Merit Scholarship is awarded each year to the most outstanding second year PSE student as judged by scholarly accomplishments accrued during the... Read More...

December 25, 2019

A publication by the Grason group and collaborators at Rice University appearing in Nature describes a new approach to observe and analyze the complex 3D morphologies of block copolymers and reveals new insights about the distinction... Read More...

October 29, 2019

Konane Bay was selected as a winner of an ACS Eastman Chemical Award during the recent ACS Meeting.  This award recognizes research excellence by a graduate student in applied polymer science. This Award, sponsored by Eastman Chemical... Read More...

October 11, 2019

A team of UMass faculty members led by PSE Profs. Ribbe and Hoagland has been awarded an NSF-MRI grant for the purchase of a Variable-Pressure High Resolution Scanning Electron Microscope (VP-HRSEM) with capabilities currently... Read More...

September 4, 2019

Zachary Fink has been selected to study his project, “Imaging Nanoparticle Jamming at Liquid-Liquid Interfaces by Real-Time, In-Situ TEM, at LBNL.

The Science Graduate Student Research Program supports supplemental awards to... Read More...

August 21, 2019

Deborah Snyder has been selected by the UMass Executive Committee of the Biotechnology Training Program for a two year NIH award. Deborah was one of two graduate students chosen to be UMass trainees this year. This fellowship provides... Read More...

August 21, 2019

Reika Katsumata has bee awarded an American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator (DNI) Grant.

The project title is "Polymeric Bi-Layer Design to Leverage Wetting Transparency for Water/Oil... Read More...

August 16, 2019

A study published today in Science explains how Professor Russell and collaborators have made new magnetic devices out of liquids.

“We’ve made a new material that has all the characteristics of an ordinary magnet, but we can... Read More...

July 19, 2019

Aiste Balciunaite, working in the Santore lab, is a double major in Chemical Engineering and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology with a minor in Mathematics. Balciunaite showed leadership in her courses, her research labs and on the... Read More...

April 29, 2019

Sarah L. Perry, assistant professor of Chemical Engineering and PSE adjunct faculty, has received a 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award for 2019. The three year award is given to young faculty members across the country who are conducting... Read More...

April 29, 2019

The Polymer Science & Engineering Faculty has selected James Pagaduan as a recipient of the 2018 - 2019 PPG Foundation Fellowship. This award provides funding towards salary and tuition costs to a PSE graduate student in the early... Read More...

April 29, 2019

The Polymer Science & Engineering Faculty has selected Hantao Zhou as a recipient of the 2018 - 2019 PPG Foundation Fellowship. This award provides funding towards salary and tuition costs to a PSE graduate student in the early... Read More...

April 29, 2019

Tom shares the highlights of his career, current research focus, and his thoughts on the future of materials science in a recent Advanced Science News Hall of Fame Highlight article. Also included in this issue article is a review of... Read More...

April 8, 2019

Sarah Perry, UMass Chemical Engineering Department faculty, has recently become a PSE adjunct faculty member. Before joining the ChemE Dept in 2014, Sarah worked as a postdoc with PSE alum Professor Matthew Tirrell in the Bioengineering... Read More...

March 20, 2019

Congrats Laura! Laura Bradley was awarded a five-year $500,000 NSF Early Career Development grant for her research on producing soft materials with ordered and oriented architectures for advanced applications in membranes and surface... Read More...

February 22, 2019

Zachary Fink of the Russell Group was presented with the 2018 Santos Go Award at the yearly banquet on December 8th. This award is given to the most outstanding second year PSE student as judged by scholarly accomplishments accrued... Read More...

December 17, 2018

Al Crosby has been awarded the Adhesion Society's ‘Excellence in Adhesion Science’ Award for 2019. This award is sponsored by 3M. Al is noted for contributing significantly to the science and technology of soft materials, especially in... Read More...

November 14, 2018

An interdisciplinary team of scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has produced a new class of electronic materials that may lead to a “green,” more sustainable future in biomedical and environmental sensing, say... Read More...

October 29, 2018

Collapsible dog bowls, bendable medical tubes and drinking straws all seem to work on a common principle, snapping into a variety of mechanically stable and useful states. Despite the many applications for such “designer matter”... Read More...

October 22, 2018

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