AMHERST, Mass. – While government employment is commonly believed to be controlled by neutral, formal pay structures, new research from a team of researchers led by University of Massachusetts Amherst sociologist Laurel Smith-Doerr has found that in a number of science-based federal agencies, gaps and differential implementation in current standardization schemes create gendered outcomes.
AMHERST, Mass. — For the fifth consecutive year, the University of Massachusetts Amherst has been named to the Princeton Review’s list of Top 50 Green Colleges.
The list is included in the new 2019 edition of “The Princeton Review Guide to 413 Green Colleges” released online Oct. 22. Ranked No. 30 this year out of the 413 schools profiled, UMass Amherst was also among the Top 50 in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018.
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services has awarded faculty members in UMass Boston’s Curriculum and Instruction and Counseling and School Psychology departments a five-year $1.1 million grant to prepare master’s-level students to serve infants, toddlers, and preschool-age children with disabilities and their families.
UMass Boston's Division of Enrollment Management welcomed 753 students to campus this past Saturday, October 19 for Open House. These prospective Beacons were accompanied by 1,025 guests, including their parents, siblings, and friends — making a grand total of 1,778 visitors.
Representatives from across the university shared information about UMass Boston’s academics, student life, financial aid, athletics, housing opportunities, and the application process.
The Massachusetts Board of Higher Education approved a Bachelor of Science in Interior Architecture and Design (IAD) at UMass Dartmouth yesterday, establishing the only accredited program of its kind at a public university in New England. The program had previously been approved by the UMass Board of Trustees.
First-year student Michaela Wakefield enrolled at UML this fall as a political science major because she had become passionate about political activism in high school.
Two young children with Tay-Sachs disease were treated safely at UMass Memorial Medical Center with a gene therapy developed at UMass Medical School and, in one case, the child's condition has stabilized, according to an interview published by WBUR with Terence R. Flotte, MD.
According to the latest bar exam results released today by Massachusetts Board of Bar Examiners, the UMass Dartmouth-based UMass School of Law outscored the statewide average for the second year in a row, just three years after receiving full American Bar Association accreditation.
AMHERST, Mass. – A team of astronomers including assistant professor Kate Whitaker at the University of Massachusetts Amherst reports today that they have by chance discovered faint traces of a huge galaxy never seen before, dating from the early universe. Likening the finding to photographing footprints of the mythical Yeti, the authors, led by postdoctoral fellow Christina Williams at the University of Arizona, say the scientific community once regarded such monster galaxies as folklore because there was no evidence for them, until now.
Mammograms can be painful. Biopsies are invasive. And MRIs take time. Research Assistant Professor Alexey Tonyushkin just received a three-year $441,780 grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop his magnetic particle imaging (MPI) prototype, which uses noninvasive techniques to detect nanoparticles—markers for breast cancer tumors.