A beloved high school teacher changed Assoc. Prof. Keith Mitchell’s life. And now, as a teacher in the English Department, Mitchell affects the lives of countless UMass Lowell students.

What if a U.S. Air Force pilot, using a computer chip implanted in her brain, could fly a plane remotely to bomb a target? 

In this scenario, is it ethical for the Air Force to implant the chip in the first place, when the pilot has no medical or psychological deficits to prevent her from flying a plane from the cockpit? And what happens when she leaves the service for civilian life?

Thanks to some digital archeology work by Tony Sampas, the university’s archivist and special projects manager, a lost website about an overlooked group of Lowell textile mill workers has been retrieved from the virtual dustbin of history — and is back online better than before.

Michael Crowley, a graduate student at the School of Public Policy, has been selected for a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) fellowship program that fast tracks students for leadership roles within the agency.

While the number of women in elected office in the U.S. has increased steadily in recent decades, they still represent a minority of officeholders. And, perhaps not incidentally, when they do run for or hold public office, women often are subjected to intense harassment, from online comments to death threats.

UMass Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital are the first to safely treat two research participants with a synthetic microRNA, delivered into the spinal fluid, designed to silence a human disease-causing gene. Details of the treatment, which targeted the mutant SOD1 gene that causes ALS, appear in the New England Journal of Medicine.

AMHERST, Mass. – As thousands of hopeful coronavirus shut-ins look forward to heading to Atlantic beaches for the July 4 holiday, University of Massachusetts Amherst entomologist Rodger Gwiazdowski and colleagues are also heading to the beach – but they’ll visit the last quiet natural one protected by the National Park Service at Sandy Hook, New Jersey.

AMHERST, Mass. – Kritika Pandey, a 2020 graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s MFA for Poets and Writers, wins the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for her short story, “The Great Indian Tee and Snakes” about two young people trying to solve the age-old riddle of human existence: how does one love in the era of hatred and prejudice?

AMHERST, Mass. – University of Massachusetts Amherst biostatistician Nicholas Reich has been awarded grants from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support innovation and expansion in his groundbreaking pandemic forecasting work.

AMHERST, Mass. – A new leadership academy for students of color and women who are interested in careers in technology and engineering was launched today by the Institute of Diversity Sciences (IDS) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.