University of Massachusetts Amherst

A new University of Massachusetts Amherst/WCVB Poll has found that Massachusetts residents view the housing crisis as the most important issue currently facing the Bay State, with 75% of those who tried to buy a new home and 83% who…

A team of scientists led by François Lapointe, a research associate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has combined paleoclimatic data from the last 2,000 years with powerful computer modeling and in-the-field research on…

The Integrated Concentration in Science (iCons) program has announced that Commonwealth Honors College students Claudia Figueroa-Pabón ’25 and Shiven Patel ’26 are this year’s recipients of the Crowley-Nowick Award. The Crowley-Nowick…

In spite of the cost, a new University of Massachusetts Amherst/WCVB Poll has found that more than six in 10 Massachusetts residents continue to support the “right to shelter” law, though respondents support limiting the capacity of…

The Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has joined the newly announced U.S. National Science Foundation’s (NSF) SafeInsights, a five-year, $90 million research and…

The involvement of the National Student Data Corps (NSDC) Institutional Chapter at UMass Amherst played a major role in the success of Terra Confluence 2024, reports Sai Gattupalli, doctoral candidate in the Department of Math, Science and…

A new report published by the Economic & Public Policy Research group at the UMass Donahue Institute has found that the ClimateTech Initiative – proposed by Gov. Maura T. Healey’s administration’s as part of the Mass Leads Act – is…

Ina Ganguli, professor of economics and director of the UMass Computational Social Science Institute, participated in a virtual forum on May 15 examining how federal funding of science, particularly through universities, pays off in terms…

What features does a robotic guide dog need? Ask the blind, say the authors of an award-winning paper. Led by researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a study identifying how to develop robot guide dogs with insights…

Four days of special events are on tap as the UMass Amherst community will celebrate the Class of 2024 with a series of Commencement and senior recognition ceremonies through Sunday, May 19. Highlighting the festivities will be Friday’s…