University of Massachusetts Amherst

A new national University of Massachusetts Amherst Poll examining Americans’ views on issues including race, immigration and abortion has found that one-fifth of respondents – and nearly one-third of Republicans – agree with former…

University of Massachusetts Amherst civil and environmental engineers have determined the factors that may help identify the schools and daycare centers at greatest risk for elevated levels of lead in drinking water. The most telling…

While we often think of diseases as caused by foreign bodies—bacteria or viruses—there are hundreds of diseases affecting humans that result from errors in cellular production of its proteins. A team of researchers led by the University of…

The increased level of political violence that members of Congress fear and experience today has emerged as a common thread across political party affiliations in an extensive new survey of nearly 300 former members of Congress conducted by…

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently published a pair of papers that, together, provide the most detailed maps to date of how 144 common invasive plants species will react to 2º C of climate change in the eastern…

A team of sustainability scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently announced in the journal PLOS ONE that they have developed a community-based framework, founded on extensive local and traditional knowledge, to help…

Christopher White, associate professor of music theory, and Catrina Kim, assistant professor of music theory, both of the Department of Music and Dance, were each recognized with Emerging Scholar Awards at the Society of Music Theory’s…

Matt Morin, fire safety officer with UMass Amherst Environmental Health and Safety and a firefighter for the Town of Sunderland, recently received the Norman Knight Award for Excellence in Community Service at the state’s 34th annual…

“I draw a lot of pleasure and satisfaction in seeing how mathematical models and concepts can be applied in real-world systems,” says UMass Amherst’s Panos Kevrekidis, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, who was recently…

UMass Amherst has been featured as a case study in an Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU) report that provides a guide for public institutions to support and advance publicly engaged, equity-oriented and publicly…