UMass Medical School cell biologist Thoru Pederson, PhD, has been elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Class of 2020. Comprising artists, scholars, scientists and leaders in the public, nonprofit and private sectors, the academy recognizes excellence and expertise among its membership, representing innovative thinkers in every field and profession.

With the Commonwealth’s latest field hospital set to open this week at UMass Dartmouth, Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito, Representatives Bill Keating and Joseph Kennedy III, and other officials visited the campus’s Tripp Athletic Center on Tuesday for a tour.

AMHERST, Mass. – A team at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Clean Energy Extension recently was awarded a 15-month grant to lead development of community-focused solar siting and financing procedures in three rural western Massachusetts communities, Blandford, Wendell and Westhampton.

AMHERST, Mass. – An estimated 80% of ornamental plants for sale at garden centers and other outlets are non-native, which means “the average yard does a poor job of supporting native flora and fauna,” says invasive plant expert Bethany Bradley at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

A group of College of Nursing (CON) faculty has formed an appreciation committee to offer gratitude and support for healthcare workers who are providing patient care during the COVID-19 pandemic. The committee has begun to issue an "Encouragement Newsletter" which is distributed to the CON community and to local healthcare facilities.

The newsletter offers words of gratitude and hope for healthcare workers, as well as quotes and stories from students and faculty. The committee hopes to continue to issue the newsletter weekly for the foreseeable future.  

Thanks to the UMass Amherst Libraries’ partnership with a consortium of academic and research organizations, UMass Amherst students, staff, and faculty now have temporary access to digital versions of approximately 1.5 million volumes held by the university.

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Aging, especially in Alzheimer’s or type 2 diabetes patients, alters brain function and affects how you walk and stand.

In late February, Falianne Forges was accepted into the Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) program for intensive study of Swahili in Tanzania.

A brand-new, required course in classroom technology for education majors couldn’t be more timely.

First-year education major Emily Clemente was midway through spring semester and the class, Technology and Digital Literacy, when she learned that UMass Lowell was moving all classes online for the rest of the semester to prevent the spread of COVID-19.