Being an active voter and engaged citizen is the best way to honor the “heroes of our American democracy” who stood up for voting and civil rights, President Marty Meehan said today as he spoke to students enrolled in a political science class at the University of Massachusetts Boston

AMHERST, Mass. – The University of Massachusetts Amherst again ranks among the nation’s premier public universities, placing at No. 26 among the 146 national public institutions evaluated in the 2021 Best Colleges guide published by U.S. News & World Report.

Krishna Kumar, the Robert L. Gluckstern Professor in Physics, recently received a three-year, $1.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to support the launch a suite of new experiments at DOE’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport News, Virginia, to measure radii of neutron distributions in heavy nuclei.

The Massachusetts Center for the Book has announced the award and honors titles in the 20th Annual Massachusetts Book Awards. The Awards recognize achievement in five categories of literature written by current residents of the Commonwealth.

Angela de Oliveira, professor of experimental and public economics in the department of resource economics, has received a $205,000 standard grant from the National Science Foundation to study the motives, beliefs and behaviors behind in-kind charitable giving.

AMHERST, Mass. – Artificial intelligence (AI) experts at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the Baylor College of Medicine report that they have successfully addressed what they call a “major, long-standing obstacle to increasing AI capabilities” by drawing inspiration from a human brain memory mechanism known as “replay.”

AMHERST, Mass. – Government funding and support for clean energy technology gave startup companies an innovation advantage, according to a new paper and a policy brief published by two University of Massachusetts researchers.

Virologist Mandy Muller, microbiology, recently received a five-year, $1.9 million Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) grant from the NIH’s National Institute for General Medical Sciences to continue her advanced studies into how certain viruses, such as those in the Herpes family and those that cause Kaposi’s sarcoma in immune-compromised individuals, evade the body’s immune response by hiding, undetectable, deep in tissues for decades.

A collaboration of seafood processing firms, lobstermen and others in the Gloucester area, with fish ecologists and food science researchers on campus, have launched a new socio-economic study to look at developing and evaluating a sustainable alternative bait for use in the Gulf of Maine lobster fishery, says study director Adrian Jordaan, environmental conservation.

You can’t herd them, you can’t put two in a corral and hope they will breed to produce offspring with desirable traits, but the humans of 10,000 to 13,000 years ago figured out how to domesticate molds and other fungi to preserve food, make it tastier and to make wine.