University of Massachusetts Amherst

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…

Jack Schneider, Dwight W. Allen Distinguished Professor and UMass Amherst Center for Education Policy director, says that as a result of the panel discussions and deliberative polling from the inaugural Spring Civic Summit, the…

The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Euclid Consortium—a collaboration of 2,000 researchers from 300 institutions in 15 European countries, the U.S., Canada and Japan—recently released the first stunning images from the Euclid space…

Artificial intelligence (AI), algorithms and software—meet the next tool kit for creating our sustainable future. University of Massachusetts Amherst has been awarded $12 million over five years by the U.S. National Science…

Collaborative research led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst outlines five essential themes to promote equitable and sustainable urban tree planting initiatives (TPIs), which is especially timely given the $1.5 billion for…