Racial disparities in utilization and outcomes of total joint arthroplasty, one of the most common surgical procedures performed in the United States, have persisted for 30 years, according to UMass Medical School researcher Shao-Hsien Liu, PhD. But little is known about what drives these disparities.

The Diversity & Inclusion Office and the International Committee relaunched the storytelling series “UMass Immigrant Stories: Everyone is Included in our Community” on Tuesday, Sept. 29, with Raúl Padrón, PhD, of UMass Medical School, and Francis Wanjau, of UMass Memorial Health Care, sharing their stories over Zoom.

UMass Law was nationally recognized by preLaw magazine for achieving an employment rate substantially higher than predicted for the Class of 2019. The rankings are listed in the publication’s Back to School 2020 issue.

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.