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Fall 2004

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THEY'VE GOT GAME: Computer science undergrads Ryan Sobol ’05 and Dan Roy ’05 planned on about 20 people at the initial meeting of their brainchild, Hi-Score, the Game Development Club of UMass Amherst. Instead, nearly 100 would-be game designers showed up last February. Since then, monthly meetings, workshops, and group projects help members gain experience in game design. “We meet industry professionals,” says Roy, club president, “and possibly stimulate collaboration.” For more information, visit www.hsgamedev.org.

LET THERE BE LINUX: Corporate computer giant IBM is outfitting UMass Amherst with technology and equipment worth more than $5 million to help establish a Linux Lab so students can learn software skills in that platform. It’s a win-win: the campus offers students the latest technology and IBM ( http://www.ibm.com/ ) is assured a steady pool of qualified employees.

FOOD FELLOW: Kalidas Shetty, food science professor, joins four other scholars in Washington, D.C., this fall to be the first-ever Jefferson Science Fellows. The National Academy of Sciences will use the group to help formulate and implement foreign policy on such matters as agriculture and food biotechnology and food safety and sanitation.
For more information, visit
http://www.umass.edu/foodsci/
http://www.nas.edu/

POLYMER POTENTIAL: UMass Amherst won a $3.2 million grant from the Department of Defense to lead a three-year study into how nanoscale-level polymer science can help create genetically engineered biomaterials. Thomas Russell, a professor of polymer science and lead investigator for the grant, says his research will hopefully lead to new materials that might prove useful in sensors or molecular electronics. Gregory N. Tew, assistant professor of polymer science, was awarded a five-year, $500,000 federal grant for his study of supermolecular polymer science.
For more information, visit
http://www.pse.umass.edu/

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