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Upcoming Events

Friday, November 6, 2009
12:20 p.m.
Natural Resources Conservation
Robert Brooks, U.S. Forest Service
Ephemeral Waters in Northern Forests
Friday, November 6, 2009
10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Center for Research on Families & Science, Technology, and Society Initiative
Stuart Shulman, UMass Amherst
One-day Workshop on ATLAS.ti &CAT for Qualitative Data Analysis
Friday, November 13, 2009
8:30 a.m.
Northeast Biochar Symposium 2009
The Promise of Biochar: Hope for our Climate, Fertile Farms

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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