UMass ADVANCE is pleased to announce the inaugural faculty teams to win the ADVANCE Equitable Practices in Collaboration and Shared Decision-Making (EPiC-SD) Award. Research shows that when all voices are heard, including the voices of women and BIPOC faculty, decision-making is better and has more effective outcomes. The award recognizes effective and equitable shared decision-making practices in faculty-led groups of three or more. Winning teams each receive $500.
AMHERST, Mass. – Driven by technological, societal and political change, renewable energy technologies are progressively replacing fossil fuels. Under an expectation that governments will fulfill their net-zero emissions pledges, these changes will accelerate, with the consequence that current oil and gas assets may be overvalued by more than $1 trillion, a figure that exceeds the subprime housing mispricing that triggered the 2007 financial crisis.
The School of Public Health and Health Sciences (SPHHS) honored a group of over 50 undergraduate and graduate students during its annual Awards Celebration held on April 30 in Old Chapel. Award recipients were recognized for outstanding achievements in the classroom, in research, and through service to the community.
The Provost’s Office has selected two faculty winners for the 2022 Distinguished Community Engagement Awards.
AMHERST, Mass. – New research, recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, finds that the ecological effect of invasive species alone is comparable to the combined effects of invasives plus warming temperatures, drought or nitrogen deposition. This suggests that a critical preparation for climate change is to manage invasive species at the local level.
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One of the classic sounds of spring is the roar of a lawnmower.
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Neuroscientist Karine Fénelon, assistant professor of biology, has been chosen to receive the Armstrong Fund for Science at UMass Amherst’s 2022 award. The two-year, $39,121 grant will support her research project entitled “Using a Ca2+-dependent optical switch to label and manipulate brain cells linked to a behavior.”
AMHERST, Mass. – Amid an unprecedented democratic decline in the U.S., a new report by Beyond Conflict, co-authored by University of Massachusetts Amherst social psychologist Linda Tropp, analyzes America’s current social divides through the lens of social science to understand how threats – both real and perceived – shape our sense of identity, our feelings of belonging and our perceptions of status and power relations in society.