Among primates, including humans, hair is an important feature of diversity and evolution, serving functions tied to thermoregulation, protection, camouflage and signaling. However, the evolution of wild primate hair has remained relatively understudied until recently.

“Church Space and the Capital in Prewar Japan,” a groundbreaking new book by Garrett Washington, associate professor of history at UMass Amherst, has been published by the University of Hawai'i Press.

“Church Space and the Capital in Prewar Japan” is a spatially explicit study on the influence of the Protestant church in imperial Japan. 

Associate Professor Jessica Schiffman, the interim department head of the Chemical Engineering Department at UMass Amherst, has been selected to the “2021 I&EC Research Class of Influential Researchers – the Americas” by the journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research (I&EC), a mainstay in the field of chemical engineering since 1909.

AMHERST, Mass.

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New research led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst definitively resolves a long-standing discrepancy in the geologic record that pitted studies of marine ice-sheet behavior against those that reconstructed past conditions on land.

On February 8, 2022, UMass Dartmouth and Congressman William Keating announced a $4.3M grant from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to research projects through the Marine and UnderSea Technology research program (MUST) at UMass Dartmouth in collaboration with the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport (NUWCDIVNPT).

Karen Giuliano, associate professor at the Elaine Marieb College of Nursing and the UMass Institute for Applied Life Sciences (IALS), and Dian Baker, professor emeritus at Sacramento State University, will lead a two-year, interdisciplinary trial in partnership with two Illinois hospitals — the University of Illinois School of Nursing and Hospital and Northwest Community Hospital – and the University of Il