University of Massachusetts Amherst

Quantum computing is one of the most potentially transformative areas of computer research happening today. Now, an interdisciplinary team at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, under the leadership of Don Towsley, Distinguished…

Images of newsworthy events that appear on news websites and on social media have the same level of credibility in the public’s view, regardless of whether they were captured by a professional photojournalist or an amateur photographer,…

A team of researchers led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst has recently found an exception to the 200-year-old law, known as Fourier’s Law, that governs how heat diffuses through solid materials. Though scientists have shown…

Wei Zhu, assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, was recently awarded a three-year, $450,000 Young Investigator grant by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research to study how scientific machine learning can…

UMass Libraries Announce Awards for Open Access Publications, More Funding Available Five UMass Amherst researchers have been awarded SOAR Fund grants from the UMass Amherst Libraries for publishing their works in open access journals. The…

UMass Amherst-launched health technology companies Ernest Pharmaceuticals and Organicin Scientific won innovation grant funding at the Lever Western Mass Health Technology Challenge this week. The two startups were selected this week from…

The University of Massachusetts Amherst’s online education programs have been recognized as among the best in the nation in the U.S. News and World Report’s 2024 rankings. Placing at No. 2 among public and private colleges and universities…

The University of Massachusetts Amherst has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) to establish and lead the Academic Center for Reliability and Resilience of Offshore Wind (ARROW), a new multimillion-dollar national center of…

A new study led by University of Massachusetts Amherst engineers paints a clear picture that people in disadvantaged communities in Massachusetts have poorer road quality and are more likely to need to use more fuel for their vehicles as a…

Issues such as abrupt changes in speed limits and incomplete lane markings are among the most influential factors that can predict road ​​​​crashes, new research by University of Massachusetts Amherst engineers has found. The study then…