2009 Women to Watch!

Mass High Tech Publisher Mike Olivieri (Mathematics '85) held the sixth annual Mass High Tech Women to Watch event at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge, MA on Thursday evening, 12 March, 2009. This event honors 10 Women to Watch in the high-tech sector. Mike sponsored a table for 10 for UMass Lowell women science students (and the Dean). In the picture above, seated, from the left: Amanda Patti (B.S. Biology) and Andrea Ireland (B.S. Biology). Standing, from the left: Science Dean Bob Tamarin; Roop Saini ( Ph.D. Marine Science and Technology); Pia Ferracin (B.S. Mathematics); Isabelle Chischportich (B.S. Mathematics); Asha Pilai (B.S, Mathematics); Sarah Schloth (B.S. Biology); Heather Byrne (B.S. Computer Science); and Anne Laraia (B.S. Environmental Sciences).

Summer Opportunities in Science (SOS) 2009 gets off to a great start

In order to attract more students to the sciences, Science Dean Bob Tamarin funds a group of students who will be entering the University as freshmen in the Sciences in September. The students will work in the labs of faculty members, spending their summers on campus getting to know the University and forging friendships with other science majors. Students will be working with Physicists, Biologists, Mathematicians, and Computer Scientists through August. The fourteen students, shown above, are (left to right):

Keith Johnson, Minuteman Regional High School, Computer Science;

Alex Pherson, Westford Academy, Biology;

Thomas Sinisi, Souhegan High School (NH), Physics;

Anita Kandregula, Chelmsford High School, Biology;

Alex Petrosillo, Whittier Regional Tech High School, Math;

Carlos Diaz, Acton Boxborough Regional High School, Physics;

Jonathan Geary, Lowell High School, Math;

Anthony Ly, Shrewsbury High School, Computer Science;

James Kozak, East Bridgewater High School, Physics;

Bianca Gaillardetz, Dracut High School, Biology;

Jonathan McCarthy, Nashua High School (NH), Physics;

Jillian Giles, Whitinsville Christian School, Physics;

Suman Das, Shrewsbury High School, Biology;

Seth Holt, Pentucket Regional High School, Physics.