University of Massachusetts Amherst

Adam Forbes, a rising senior majoring in food science and mathematics, won first place in the Undergraduate Research Competition at IFT First, the annual event and expo of the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), held recently in…

Chef Jeffrey MacDonald was awarded an individual gold medal and UMass Dining won a silver for a special event celebrating Lunar New Year at the American Culinary Federation National competition on July 20 held at the annual National…

Venus Green, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology, has been selected as a 2023-24 Dissertation Fellow through the social scientist organization, Center for Engaged Scholarship.Green’s dissertation research examines how…

UMass Amherst Institute for Applied Life Sciences (IALS) startup Cyta Therapeutics was the Judges’ Choice Best Startup at the 16th annual Massachusetts Life Sciences Innovation (MALSI) Day in Boston on July 27.Cyta Therapeutics is an…

Two UMass faculty members and a librarian have been recognized as the 2023 recipients of the Provost’s Distinguished Community Engagement Awards for teaching, research and service. Deborah Keisch, senior lecturer and director of the…

UMass Amherst’s David Kawall, professor of physics, is part of a large international team of almost 200 physicists exploring the uncharted territory at the edges of the Standard Model, the most comprehensive understanding we have of how…

Joshua Braun, associate professor of journalism, was a featured panelist at the first-of-its-kind Cambridge Disinformation Summit, held July 27-28 at King’s College in Cambridge.The summit convened global thought leaders from psychology,…

The Minutemen Club, the fundraising arm of Massachusetts Athletics, has concluded another highly successful year of fundraising as the athletics department raised over $8.4 million in the 2022-23 academic year, a 10% increase from…

Isabella Weber, economics, has been named a co-recipient of the 2023 Kurt Rothschild Prize by Austria’s Renner Institut and the Social Democratic Parliamentary Group. Weber and Sebastian Dullien, of the Berlin University of Applied…

Sibongile Mafu, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, has received a four-year, $625,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to untangle the chemical diversity in legumes in an effort to improve agricultural…