Winter 2025/2026 Quarterly Newsletter
Category: Empower
ARROW tours MassCEC’s Wind Technology Testing Center
Last week, ARROW students, staff, and faculty toured the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center’s Wind Technology Testing Center (WTTC) in Boston, MA. The WTTC is the premier blade testing facility in the USA, and it is capable of testing blades up …
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ARROW Director shares wind turbine presentation with Westhampton Elementary students
ARROW Director Dr. Sanjay Arwade visited with fourth graders at Westhampton Elementary School earlier this week to demonstrate how wind turbines work and answer student questions about wind energy.
Prof. Dennice Gayme, JHU teaches lecture at UMass Amherst
Prof. Dennice Gayme of Johns Hopkins University spent the day at UMass Amherst on November 13, meeting with faculty and students before giving a guest lecture in the MIE Wind Energy Systems class. Her talk, titled Wind farms: wake interactions …
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“Yes to Wind” national campaign
ARROW faculty and students had the opportunity to share their “Yes to Wind” moments recently at the Ralph O’Connor Sustainable Energy Institute (ROSEI) luncheon on November 17th at Johns Hopkins University, as part of the “Yes to Wind” national campaign …
ARROW at Morgan State University
ARROW Director Sanjay Arwade and Associate Director Ben Schafer visited Prof. Zheng Li and Dean Stephen Egarievwe at Morgan State University today to further educational and research collaboration among Morgan State and the rest of the ARROW team.
Student Spotlight: Morteza Shafiei, UMass Amherst
ARROW student Morteza Shafiei, a PhD Candidate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UMass Amherst, is studying the mechanical behavior of offshore and onshore glauconite sand. Glauconite sand is prevalent along the Atlantic Continental Shelf of the …
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ARROW presents at UMass Amherst Engineering and Computing Career Day
ARROW presented at the UMass Amherst Engineering and Computing Career Day, an event that brings Massachusetts high school students to campus so they can learn more about degrees and careers in engineering and computing. ARROW students Jonah Hanak and Peter …
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ARROW students present at EAWE PhD Seminar
ARROW students Amelia Adcroft and Martin Beshara recently presented their research at the October EAWE PhD Seminar in Athens, Greece. This annual gathering supports and connects PhD students in the field of wind energy and is an opportunity for doctoral …
ARROW Director Sanjay Arwade helps Mount Holyoke students consider engineering design through wind turbine exercise
ARROW Director Sanjay Arwade presented his Mount Holyoke College students with a wind turbine exercise as a hands-on element of their course Think Big! Design Big! Dr. Arwade is a Visiting Professor of Physics at Mount Holyoke College this fall, …