AMHERST, Mass.
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.
Medical clinics across the nation are making swift adjustments due to the widespread novel coronavirus. Abiding by social distancing regulations to help flatten the curve, many physicians are transitioning to remote consultation.
This is where telehealth comes into play, and there are now dozens of clinics in Central Massachusetts offering the video conferencing option for patients, thanks to recent training from medical students at UMass Medical School.
A new study by UMass Medical School researchers may up-end a common belief about the benefit of e-cigarettes for helping smokers kick the habit.
A team of academic and industry experts, including the Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA) in the College of Engineering, is collaborating with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on a project aimed at controlling an expected increase in low-flying manned and unmanned aircraft over cities in the U.S. in the next decade.
The team includes three universities and four private companies and is headed by researchers at the University of North Texas, Denton.
The UMass Amherst Libraries are coordinating efforts for the Pioneer Valley’s participation in the fifth annual international City Nature Challenge (CNC). The Challenge consists of a submission period from April 24-27, 2020, during which participants observe and submit pictures of wild plants, animals, and fungi using the free mobile app iNaturalist, and a crowdsource-based identification period from April 28-May 3, 2020. Results of the Challenge will be announced on May 4.
AMHERST, Mass. – Meir Y. Barth, of Newton, Mass., a 2018 graduate of Commonwealth Honors College at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, is one of seventy-seven scholars from thirty countries selected to receive a Gates Cambridge Scholarship that funds one year of graduate study at the University of Cambridge in England.
TheUMass Amherst Libraries have announced the winners of the 2020 Undergraduate Sustainability Research Awards.
A $1,500 scholarship was awarded to first-place recipient, senior Linda Black, for the white paper, “FOOD/NOW: On Climate Mitigation, Sustainable Farming, and Food Security in Massachusetts.”