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Upcoming Events

Friday, November 20, 2009
5:00 p.m.
Geosciences
Denis LeBlanc, U.S. Geological Survey
The Billion-Dollar Groundwater Cleanup at the Massachusetts Military Reservation -- The Hydrologic Story
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
12:30 p.m.
Veterinary and Animal Science
Saby Sen, Bay State Health Center
Survival and differentiation of human adult stem cells
Thursday, December 3, 2009
5:00 p.m.
Procter & Gamble Honorary Seminar in Chemistry
Amit Meller, Boston Univ.
A Point-of-Care System for the Developing World

News Highlights

Assoc Dean Jim Kurose instrumental in partnership for $100 M green high performance computing center in Holyoke.
Houjun Mo, Astronomy, received $428,000 NSF grant to study distribution of approximately 80 percent of “missing” mass in universe.
Julie Brigham-Grette, Geosciences, returned from expedition to obtain sediment core samples from ancient Siberian lake that provide unique history of climate change over 3 million years.



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