One of the great mysteries of late medieval history is why did the Norse, who had established successful settlements in southern Greenland in 985, abandon them in the early 15th century?

Nestled in the Southwest area of campus, students can find a vibrant, rainbow sign that reads: The Stonewall Center.

New research, led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst and published recently in the journal Climate of the Past, is the first to provide a continuous look at a shift in climate, called the Mid-Pleistocene Transition, that has puzzled scientists. Kurt Lindberg, the paper’s first author and currently a graduate student at the University at Buffalo, was only an undergraduate when he completed the research as part of a team that included world-renowned climate scientists at UMass Amherst.

Three students at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have won scholarships from the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation.

Physics major McKenzie Ferrari ‘23 has been named a 2022 Goldwater Scholar, becoming the first recipient of the prestigious recognition in UMass Dartmouth’s history.

The University of Massachusetts has received a $330,000 grant from the Richard and Susan Smith Family Foundation to support development of a pilot “early college” program that would provide high school students a free one-year head start on earning a college degree. The planning grant builds on a $70,000 feasibility study for the early college program, also funded by the Smith Family Foundation and conducted by UMass over the past year.

While most of their classmates will learn where they will serve their residencies on Friday, March 18, members of the T.H. Chan School of Medicine Class of 2022 who participated in the Ophthalmology Residency Matching Program already know where they are headed. Brian Argus, MEd, matched at Indiana University and Imani M. Williams, MBS, matched at the Stanley M. Truhlsen Eye Institute at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

Gang Han, PhD, professor of biochemistry & molecular biotechnology, has been elected by the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) to its College of Fellows. Dr. Han was nominated, reviewed and elected by peers and members of the AIMBE College of Fellows for creative advances in the development of nanomaterials for biophotonic applications.

An international team of investigators has discovered that an inorganic polyphosphate released by nerve cells known as astrocytes in people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) contributes to the motor neuron death that is the signature of these diseases.