May 2024

A new report published by the Economic & Public Policy Research group at the UMass Donahue Institute has found that the ClimateTech Initiative – proposed by Gov. Maura T. Healey’s administration’s as part of the Mass Leads Act – is…

Ina Ganguli, professor of economics and director of the UMass Computational Social Science Institute, participated in a virtual forum on May 15 examining how federal funding of science, particularly through universities, pays off in terms…

What features does a robotic guide dog need? Ask the blind, say the authors of an award-winning paper. Led by researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a study identifying how to develop robot guide dogs with insights…

Four days of special events are on tap as the UMass Amherst community will celebrate the Class of 2024 with a series of Commencement and senior recognition ceremonies through Sunday, May 19. Highlighting the festivities will be Friday’s…

The University of Massachusetts Amherst celebrated the graduation of approximately 6,800 students before a gathering of 20,000 family and friends at the 154th UMass Amherst Undergraduate Commencement ceremony today at Warren P. McGuirk…

The UMass Amherst Stockbridge School of Agriculture celebrated its Class of 2024 associate degree graduates at the school’s 102nd Commencement on Saturday, May 18 in Stockbridge Hall’s Bowker Auditorium. The…

UMass Amherst Elaine Marieb Center for Nursing and Engineering Innovation has awarded four Pilot Grants to faculty-led nursing and engineering teams that facilitate collaborative, interdisciplinary nurse-engineer research to discover and…

The University of Massachusetts Police Department will be offering a special one-week self-defense program next month for interested UMass Amherst faculty and staff employees. From June 10-14, self-defense classes will be held each day…

Hung Le, assistant professor in the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences, has been selected for the 2024 Google Research Scholar Program, which aims to support early-career faculty by providing unrestricted gifts of up to…

Francine Berman, Stuart Rice Honorary Chair and research professor in the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS), was recognized by the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) as the recipient of…