AMHERST, Mass. – A team of polymer science and engineering researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has demonstrated for the first time that the positions of tiny, flat, solid objects integrated in nanometrically thin membranes – resembling those of biological cells – can be controlled by mechanically varying the elastic forces in the membrane itself. This research milestone is a significant step toward the goal of creating ultrathin flexible materials that self-organize and respond immediately to mechanical force.

AMHERST, Mass. – The University of Massachusetts Amherst today announced that Kerri Thompson Tillett has been named associate vice chancellor for equal opportunity. Tillett will assume her duties on May 17, 2021.

An international team of astronomers, including University of Massachusetts Amherst professors Gopal Narayanan and Peter Schloerb, has just revealed a new view of the massive black hole at the center of a galaxy located 55 million light-years away, known as the M87 galaxy.

University of Massachusetts research continues to grow in Fiscal Year 2020 as the university positions for post-pandemic recovery

Faculty expertise and strategic planning position the university for continued research growth 

BOSTON – Despite the onset of the coronavirus, the University of Massachusetts conducted a record-breaking $687 million of research in Fiscal Year 2020, according to a report released at today’s meeting of the UMass Board of Trustees Committee on Academic and Student Affairs.

What do successful rock 'n’ roll bands have in common with hard-charging entrepreneurs who reach the top echelons of business? 

A willingness to fail, to regroup and to try again, said Greg Harris, president and CEO of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame who moderated a virtual event on music and entrepreneurship hosted by the UMass Lowell’s Innovation Hub. It’s about adaptation, and developing the depth to withstand failure.

Last spring, after COVID-19 shut down the campus, education Ph.D. student Sharifa Djurabaeva was feeling isolated. She had finished all of her classes and was starting the long, hard solo work of completing her dissertation.

“I was getting so frustrated just sitting in one room,” she says. “I also wanted to socialize.”

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Text appears Answering the Call: State of the University 2021 President Martin T. Meehan.

President Meehan stands in a laboratory at UMass Chan Medical School. Montage of students in remote working environments wearings masks. Animated graphic of the United States of America, with numbers on each state signify the amount of deaths caused by the Covid 19 Pandemic.

BOSTON – University of Massachusetts President Marty Meehan announced today that he would recommend that the university’s Board of Trustees freeze tuition for in-state undergraduates for the academic year beginning in September. If approved by the UMass Board, this would be the second straight year of a tuition freeze at the Commonwealth’s 75,000-student national public research university system.

University of Massachusetts campuses are deploying the energy, expertise, and ingenuity of students, faculty and staff in support of the Commonwealth’s COVID-19 vaccination effort. 

In video message, President Meehan emphasizes the multiple ways UMass has “answered the call” in its response to COVID-19