The Office of Naval Research has awarded Hayward as lead investigator and a team of researchers at UMass Amherst, the University of California, Riverside, Stanford University, the University of California, Santa Barbara, Kent State... Read More...
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News
In addition to receiving a Peebles award, Shruti was the recipient of the Alan Gent Distinguished Student Paper Award for her presentation entitled "Puncture Mechanics of Soft Gels at Small Length Scales" at the 41st Annual Adhesion... Read More...
March 19, 2018
On Tuesday, March 6th, 2018, Professor Santore was presented with the Chancellor's Medal, the highest honor bestowed to faculty by the campus. She was presented with this medal during a reception that followed her talk, "From the... Read More...
March 12, 2018
Murugappan Muthukumar is co-author of the cover story in the August 2015 issue of Physics Today on single-molecule sensing with nanopores.
Like thread through the eye of a needle, DNA, protein, and other chain-like biomolecules... Read More...
August 17, 2015
Todd was awarded the 2015 Carl S. Marvel Creative Polymer Chemistry Award at the ACS Meeting in Denver, CO on Tuesday, March 24, 2015. This award is given to recognize and encourage accomplishments or innovation of unusual merit in the... Read More...
March 25, 2015
Al Crosby has been elected a 2014 NAI fellow for demonstrating “a highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and the... Read More...
December 24, 2014
Jim Watkins assisted Chancellor Subbaswamy in welcoming the Mass Governor-elect Charlie Baker. This was reported on in the Boston Globe.
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December 5, 2014
An article written by Z. Page, Y. Liu, V. Duzhko, T. Russell and T. Emrick has been published in Science magazine.
The development of more efficient and longer lasting organic solar cells has been hampered by a trade-off between... Read More...
October 10, 2014
Jim was featured on Fox 25 Boston on Wednesday, August 6, 2014 regarding his research on biosensors.
This news story was based on the Boston Globe article, "UMass patch would spot stressed-out soldiers” by Naila Moreira.
... Read More... August 8, 2014
Todd has been selected as a member of the 2014 class of Fellows of the American Chemical Society (ACS). He was honored at a special ceremony during the ACS National Meeting in San Francisco on Monday, August 11, 2014. A full list of... Read More...
August 4, 2014
An article by Y. Cao, Y. Liang, L. Zhang, S. Osuna, A.-L. M. Hoyt, A. L. Briseno*, and K. N. Houk* is featured in J. Am. Chem. Soc.
The Houk (UCLA) and Briseno groups investigated the Diels–Alder reactions of pentacene (PT) and... Read More...
July 28, 2014
Russell recently published a perspective in Science on properties in nanoscopic polymer materials.
Publication Date: September 20, 2013
In his 1959 paper, Richard Feynman stated that the homogeneous properties of... Read More...
September 30, 2013
A study by Greg Grason and collaborators Andreea Panaitescu and Arshad Kudrolli at Clarke University was featured on the cover of the June 15, 2018 issue of Physical Review Letters. Tomographic experiments probe the evolution of 3D... Read More...
June 15, 2018
Di Jia and M. Muthukumar Report Unexpected New Dynamics for Large DNA Molecules in Liquid Suspension
The discovery by Di Jia and M. Muthukumar of a novel topologically frustrated dynamical state of DNA and other charged macromolecules inside a hydrogel is published in Nature Communications, 9, 2248 (2018). The origin of this state lies... Read More...
June 11, 2018
Emrick group member Liz Stubbs received a best poster award for her poster entitled Functional Deoxybenzoin Monomers and Polymers at the FLAME 2018 - 29th Annual Conference on Recent Advances in Flame Retardancy of Polymeric Materials... Read More...
May 30, 2018
The New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS) and the Blavatnik Family Foundation announced this week that polymer scientist and chemical engineer Ryan Hayward has been named a finalist for the 2018 Blavatnik National Awards in the physical... Read More...
May 30, 2018
Investigators in the Santore lab have patented a multifunctional platform that can selectively capture bacteria from a complex fluid (such as food or blood) and, after a period of minutes to hours during which the bacteria could be... Read More...
May 9, 2018
Alexa Kuenstler received the 3rd prize in the DPOLY poster competition at the recent APS March Meeting in Los Angeles for her poster entitled “Liquid Crystal Elastomer Nanocomposites for Dynamic Optical Materials.”
Advanced... Read More...
April 30, 2018
Professor Laura Bradley received the 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award for her work developing "Universal Encapsulants: Depletant-Meditated Self-Assembly of Clickable Capsules."
April 9, 2018
Lab Talk with Laura is a weekly radio show where Laura Fattaruso and a local comic interview STEM researchers at UMass Amherst.
Check out Marcus and Todd's interview!
March 23, 2018