High school senior Brayden Toth is trying to decide where to start college this fall, and he’s frustrated that he can’t visit his top two choices.
Every year, the Run for Krystle Team runs the Boston Marathon to celebrate the legacy of Krystle Campbell, the alumna from Medford who was killed in the 2013 Boston bombing, and raise money for a scholarship in her name. This year, due to concerns about the coronavirus, the marathon has been postponed from Patriots’ Day until September 14.
AMHERST, Mass. – A University of Massachusetts Amherst researcher is co-leading a multi-disciplinary team from around the United States to use big data to identify risk factors across systems for catastrophic events such as major power outages and natural disasters.
AMHERST, Mass. – With the rapid onset of smell and taste loss emerging as symptoms of COVID-19, scientists around the world – including a sensory expert at the University of Massachusetts Amherst – have united to investigate the connection between the chemical senses and the novel coronavirus.
Donal Carbaugh, professor of communication, has published a new book, “Communication in Vehicles.” In it Carbaugh expands on over 10 years of research, analyzing how people interact with their smart vehicles.
Communication between people and vehicles ranges from the basic to the complex. Even vehicular functions that appear trivial can affect a user’s interaction.
“One type of communication problem we addressed was: How would users like to start an interaction with their car?” said Carbaugh.
Kathryne M. Young, assistant professor of sociology, has been chosen among the 2020-21 cohort of ABF/JPB Foundation Access to Justice Faculty Scholars. The six faculty scholars come from diverse academic backgrounds and focus on research that advances access to justice across the United States.
Mila Getmansky Sherman, professor in the Isenberg School of Management’s department of finance, is coleader of a new $2.4 million National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded project that aims to improve the systems allowing for cross-discipline collaboration.
“Today, we’re witnessing the effects of the coronavirus on the stock market, the costs of production and distribution, and oil, gas, and food prices,” says Sherman, explaining why catastrophic events are best examined from multiple academic perspectives.
AMHERST, Mass. – A new analysis of earnings inequalities by an international team of 27 researchers has found that the between-workplace share of wage inequality is growing in 12 of 14 high-income countries studied, and that the countries vary a great deal in their levels and trends in overall earnings inequality.
AMHERST, Mass. – Engineers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst responded to a request for help in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic from Baystate Health in Springfield by designing new, longer control cables for ventilators and the elimination of battery power sources.
Eight undergraduates from across campus have received the spring 2020 Rising Researcher award.
The Rising Researcher program celebrates undergraduate students who excel in research, scholarship or creative activity.
The spring 2020 Rising Researchers are: