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WSU Fungus Researcher Awarded Fulbright to U.K.
Washington State University bioengineering senior Katy Ayers has received a Fulbright U.S. Student award to further her fungus studies at the University of Exeter in southwest England.
Her Fulbright scholarship will support her Master of…
WSU Spokane Initiates Planning for Innovative Health Education Facility
WSU Spokane has launched the planning process for the campus’s newest building, the Team Health Education Building. Serving as a state-of-the-art health care simulation facility, the building will be designed to prepare the campus’s…
Cybersecurity Education Shows Wide Variability Across the US
Cybersecurity programs vary dramatically across the country, a review has found. The authors argue that program leaders should work with professional societies to make sure graduates are well trained to meet industry needs in a…
200 Healthcare Start-ups from across India Flock to IIHMR University for Growth
National; 7th May 2024: IIHMR University’s healthcare-focused IIHMR Start-ups, a prominent unit of IIHMR Foundation rooted in Jaipur, Rajasthan has recently launched Saamarthya 2.O, "An Exclusive Growth Incubation Program” to support…
Sofiya Alhassan Receives Distinguished Career Award from Faculty Women of Color in the Academy at…
Sofiya Alhassan, associate dean for inclusion and engagement with the UMass Amherst Graduate School and professor in the Department of Kinesiology, recently received the 2024 Zenobia L. Hikes Distinguished Career Award from the Faculty…
UMass Amherst Announces Recipients of 2024-25 Mutual Mentoring Grants
The Office of Faculty Development (OFD) has announced the recipients of 15 2024-25 Mutual Mentoring Grants, awarded to faculty and librarians leading mutual mentoring projects.
The Mutual Mentoring Grant Program aims to help faculty and…
UMass Amherst Physicists Lead Team in Building New Device Paving the Way for Quantum Computing
Scientists led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst have adapted a device called a microwave circulator for use in quantum computers, allowing them for the first time to precisely tune the exact degree of nonreciprocity between a…
UMass Graduate Students Advocate for Science in Washington D.C.
Four UMass Amherst graduate students were recently introduced to the federal policy-making process and strategies to effectively communicate research to policy makers when they attended the Catalyzing Advocacy in Science and Engineering …
UMass Amherst IT Student Interns Showcase Spring 2024 Internship Projects at Campus Center…
UMass Amherst Information Technology celebrated the Spring 2024 cohort of IT student interns with a celebration in the Campus Center on April 25. The event featured presentations from all eight of this semester’s interns: Cristian Clewis,…
UMass Amherst Honors Outstanding Achievements in 2024 Ceremony
Ten staff members, two teams of employees and 10 student employees who have demonstrated exceptional talent, dedication and commitment to UMass Amherst were honored for their outstanding contributions to the university at the 2024…