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Suzanne Palmer gave birth to twins on April 30,
2008. She had a boy, Kieran Alexander (left),
weighing in at 7 pounds 7 1/4 ounces, measuring 20
1/2 inches long, and a girl, Ada Zoe (right), 5 pounds
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staffchanges
Jon Belanger left for a position at Fidelis Security Systems,
in Bethesda, MD, designing and implementing IT for a new
and growing company. His expertise will be missed.
John Maher , our new Senior Systems and Networking
Administrator, comesto us from a diverse educational and
professional background. Most recently employed at the
School for International Training, prior to that he was a
UMass employee in OIT’s Network Services group and
brings to Chem/BMB much needed skills in network
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David Henderson (PhD ’75) and Prof. Susan Henderson, (MS, Prof. Curran) have a paper accepted in Chemistry
and Ecology 24 (5) entitled, “Acidity of machine made snow and its effect on pH and aluminum speciation in
New England streams during spring thaw.” This paper was a result of our interest in skiing and our question about
the impact of machine made snow, which appear to be positive. They also have a forthcoming entry in the 2nd
Edition of the Handbook of HPLC, Fall 2009 entitled, “The Control and Application of Temperature in Analytical
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Pizza Parleys, a summer seminar program exclusively
for graduate students to discuss current research
fields. ResearchFest has been sponsored in recent
years by The Procter & Gamble Company, Rohm
and Haas, Momentive Performance Materials, Fisher
Scientific, Brucker Corporation and Cambridge
Isotope Laboratories. And, while many companies
seek our graduates through the University’s Career
Services office, The Procter & Gamble Company,
Rohm and Haas, and Bayer Material Science send PhD
researchers directly to the Department to interview our
graduate students and to meet with research faculty and
Department administrators.
cHaNgINg TIMES
With respect to collaborative research, much has
changed in the last decade between academia and
industry. Increased competition, financial constraints,
and advances in information technology have
combined to steer industry away from its long-held
model of internal-only discovery research. As a result,
many companies have downsized their basic research
and discovery operations in favor of a more open model
of innovation/acquisition, which widely canvasses the
globe for new technologies from all sectors including
academia. In doing so, industry has worked with
academia to define acceptable terms pertaining to
publication/patent rights and commercialization. On
the academic side, evidence of collaboration with
industry has often been the key differentiator in
determining which universities receive key government
grants, particularly large grants earmarked to create
national level research centers. Academia is not
without its financial challenges either. In addition to
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