Yuriy Brun and Charles C. Weems Jr., both associate professors in the College of Information and Computer Sciences, have been selected as 2019 Distinguished Members of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
The new Carney Family Auditorium in Furcolo Hall at UMass Amherst's College of Education was officially unveiled to the public in a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Friday. Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy and Dean of the College of Education, Cynthia Gerstl-Pepin were in attendance.
After the announcement of UMass Amherst Libraries’ acquisition of his historic personal papers, whistleblower and activist Daniel Ellsberg has completed a series of visits, lectures and presentations to the UMass Amherst community.
Symmetric Computing, a tech company located at UMass Boston’s Venture Development Center, recently won a $100,000 ASPIRE Design Challenge award from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) at the National Institutes of Health.
Fidan Ana Kurtulus, economics, spoke in favor of broad-based employee ownership of firms and cooperatives and how governments can enact policies to encourage the adoption and prevalence of employee ownership and cooperatives at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Thursday, Oct. 24.
Economists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and California Polytechnic State University have found that higher temperatures increase emergency department visits for mental illness, suicide rates and self-reported days of poor mental health. Further, the researchers found no evidence of effective adaptation among American populations to these negative effects of heat. They also warn their findings suggest that both warming local climates and increases in extreme heat events will contribute negatively to population mental health.
A cross-disciplinary team of scientists, led by University of Massachusetts Amherst environmental epigeneticist Richard Pilsner, will use a three-year, $1.6 million grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)to expand research into the impact of phthalate exposure on male fertility.
AMHERST, Mass. – A state matching funds program that serves as an incentive for public universities to raise funds from private sources has been adopted by the House of Representatives and the Senate in a supplementary budget.
Even with a double major in economics and American studies, senior Madeline Hertz figures she’ll one day be among the nearly 57 million Americans – or 36 percent of the U.S. workforce – taking part in the gig economy.
Americans are more divided than ever – not only along political lines, but on hot social topics such as the safety of childhood vaccines and whether marijuana use is harmful.
More disturbing, says Political Science Assoc. Prof. Morgan Marietta, is that we no longer derive our political and social beliefs from a common set of facts. Instead, our deeply held values and identities determine which facts we believe.