University of Massachusetts Amherst

A team from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and The University of Texas at Austin is among 13 institutional partners chosen by the CDC’s Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics (CFA) to establish the nation’s first…

The UMass Amherst Institute for Applied Life Sciences (IALS) has announced that six campus research teams have been named recipients of the fifth annual Manning/IALS Innovation Awards. These translational grants advance applied R&D…

The UMass Amherst Libraries will present “Making a World of Difference: Stories about Global Health,” in the Science and Engineering Library, Lederle Lowrise, through Jan. 6, 2024. A reception for the exhibit will take place on Wednesday,…

This fall semester, UMass Information Technology (UMass IT) has launched Mobile Check-in for in-person tech support at the IT Service Desk in the Campus Center. The new online check-in option is designed to help students, faculty and staff…

Students from UMass Amherst’s Integrated Concentration in STEM (iCons) Program were recently recruited by the U.S. Census Bureau’s The Opportunity Project (TOP) for a 10-week sprint challenge called “Improving Access to Electrical Power for…

Doctoral students Azaria Anderson and Yahaira Bermudez have been selected for the 2023-24 Scientist Mentoring & Diversity Program (SMDP), a one-year career mentoring program that pairs ethnically diverse students and early career…

For Riley Cordeau, completing a summer internship at a Boston-area biotechnology research company on the cusp of his graduation this year was like using a GPS from the UMass Amherst campus to a place he has never been before. The…

An interdisciplinary team led by University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers has been awarded $1.14 million over four years by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a revolutionary way of tracking body movements, with…

Ina Ganguli, professor of economics and director of the UMass Computational Social Science Institute, presented a talk on the low rates of female participation in the workforce in conservative societies to the World Bank’s Office of the…

A team of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has shown that a single, small strand of microRNA, or miRNA, known as let-7, governs the ability of T-cells to recognize and remember tumor cells. This cellular memory is…