University of Massachusetts Amherst

In a first-of-its-kind long-term study, a collaborative group of scientists, including senior author Ashley Keiser, assistant professor of soil ecology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Stockbridge School of Agriculture, have…

Whitney Battle-Baptiste, professor of anthropology, recently represented the W. E. B. Du Bois Center and UMass Libraries in Accra, Ghana to mark the 60th anniversary of the death of W. E. B. Du Bois. The scholar-activist died there at the…

Professor Moira Inghilleri, Associate Professor Patrick Mensah and Senior Lecturer Barry Spence from the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures have been awarded a $300,000 from the Teagle Foundation and the National Endowment…

New research co-written by a University of Massachusetts Amherst resource economist finds large-scale evidence that air pollution from drifting wildfire smoke disproportionately elevates the risk of suicide among rural populations in…

David Julian McClements, Distinguished Professor of Food Science, internationally known scholar and prolific author, was recently featured live on ArirangTV, South Korea’s largest English-language broadcast, discussing the global rise of…

The Elaine Marieb Center for Nursing and Engineering Innovation at UMass Amherst has been honored as Manufacturer of the Year in the 3rd Hampshire district – which includes Hampshire County, Amherst and two precincts in Granby – by the…

Kinesiology doctoral candidate Skylar Holmes recently received a two-year, $44,916 F31 Predoctoral Fellowship Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to investigate muscle fatigue’s impact on gait mechanics and neuromuscular…

The Musculoskeletal Orthopedic Biomechanics Lab (MOBL) Research Group in the Department of Kinesiology is in need of volunteers for an industry-funded project that examines the effects of different carbon fiber shoe inserts during…

In an effort to address health disparities linked to low socioeconomic environments, a University of Massachusetts Amherst kinesiologist is partnering with Western Massachusetts preschools to implement a physical activity program for…

Distinguished Professor Don Towsley of the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) is this year’s recipient of the Euler Award from the Network Science Society for his foundational contributions to network tomography…