University of Massachusetts Amherst

Social media offers a treasure trove of data for researchers to understand how organizations and individuals use the technology to communicate with and grow their base of followers. However, manually analyzing the content can be…

Informal political polls conducted on X/Twitter during both the 2016 and 2020 U.S. presidential elections were significantly skewed by questionable votes, many of which may have been purchased from troll farms.…

A new global assessment of scientific literature led by researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst finds that nature-based solutions (NbS) are an economically effective method to mitigate risks from a range of…

Nine UMass Amherst faculty members representing eight disciplines have been named among the nation’s top 100 researchers and scholars in their fields, according to the latest edition of Research.com’s Best…

As the three-year anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan approaches, researchers from the Human Security Lab at the University of Massachusetts Amherst today published a study showing that while there is broad support…

The building and construction industry accounts for 37% of global greenhouse emissions—and the steel production process can be a significant contributor to these emissions. To steer the industry in a new direction, the University of…

The fatal crash rate per mile driven is three times higher for 16-to-19-year-old drivers than it is for the 20-plus crowd. To help reverse this trend, Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center (CSRC), the University of…

Researchers in computer science and engineering at UMass Amherst and UMass Boston have teamed up to help diversify STEM culture across the UMass system with help from a $499,972 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The team, called…

Nancy Folbre, professor emerita of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and director of the Program on Gender and Care Work at UMass Amherst’s Political Economy Research Institute, has been named principal investigator on a…

Lillian Fritz-Laylin, assistant professor of biology, was recently named as one 26 researchers included in this year’s Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator Program. The HHMI Investigator Program, which provides each awardee…