University of Massachusetts Amherst

Richard Peltier, professor of environmental health sciences in the School of Public Health and Health Sciences, has been named a 2023 Science Defender by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). He is one of four individuals and groups…

Karl Lyn, doctoral candidate in the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, has been awarded a $25,000 Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant within the Cultural Anthropology Program from the U.S. National Science…

UMass Amherst faculty and students interested in interdisciplinary comics-based research (CBR) are invited to participate in the CBR Lab, directed by Sally Pirie, professor in the College of Education. Pirie, an anthropologist of childhood…

A team of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has developed the first dual-color optoelectronic neural probe. Unlike previous, single-color probes, which often control brain activity in only one direction – excitation or…

Building up coastal U.S. wetlands that are drowning under rising oceans remains a challenge, but scientists are now one step closer to identifying solutions, thanks, in part, to UMass Amherst postdoctoral researcher Erin Peck’s co-authored…

The University of Massachusetts has announced that the top 10% of the commonwealth’s future community college graduates will receive a minimum of $5,000 per year above federal and private financial aid if they enroll at one of the four…

States that enacted laws permitting children to carry and apply sunscreen at school experienced an increased interest in sun protection and a higher rate of sunscreen use among adolescents, according to new research by a University of…

Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst have been selected by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) to help lead the newly announced NSF Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science (CBIKS) – a five-year,…

UMass Amherst speech, language and hearing sciences faculty members Sara Mamo and Lisa Sommers presented their research on the impact of hearing loss on people with Parkinson’s disease and their care partners at the Sixth World Parkinson…

A University of Massachusetts Amherst resource economist finds mandated in-school Body Mass Index (BMI) assessments adopted in varying forms by 24 states to combat childhood obesity have the potential to improve the health of some…