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With gas prices hitting record highs, drivers everywhere are reaching deeper into their pockets at the pump.

An international team of researchers, led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, recently announced in the journal Current Biology that an amoeba called Naegleria has evolved more distinct sets of tubulins, used for specific cellular processes, than previously thought.

Jennifer Rauch, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, is collaborating on a two-year, $700,000 National Institutes of Health grant to develop a new technology to treat Alzheimer’s disease, chronic traumatic encephalopathy and other neurodegenerative diseases.

A University of Massachusetts Amherst epidemiologist has received a five-year, $3 million Outstanding New Environmental Scientist (ONES) grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) in his ongoing effort to discover more about the origins and risk factors of autism. 

Two UMass Amherst faculty members have recently been appointed to the Asian American and Pacific Islanders Commission (AAPIC), a statewide body whose purpose is to enhance opportunity for Asian Americans, especially those newly arrived in the country. Richard T. Chu, professor of history, was appointed by State Treasurer Deborah Goldberg in February and Leo. L.

A new report released by the UMass Amherst School of Public Policy (SPP) reveals some of the impacts that the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic had on Massachusetts households. Led by UMass Amherst economist Marta Vicarelli, the team from SPP’s Sustainable Policy Lab surveyed more than 2,600 Massachusetts residents from Oct. 4, 2020 to Feb. 18, 2021 to gather information about the challenges households faced due to the public health crisis and its socio-economic fallout, and the strategies adopted to address these challenges.

In the long-term battle between a herpesvirus and its human host, a University of Massachusetts Amherst virologist and her team of students have identified some human RNA able to resist the viral takeover – and the mechanism by which that occurs.

Karen Giuliano, associate professor at the Institute for Applied Life Sciences and the Elaine Marieb College of Nursing, along with Kelly Landsman, a nurse-biomedical engineer in Minneapolis, are writing a new column for the American Journal of Nursing (AJN) called Nurse Innovators. 

The University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Engineering (COE) has received a $10 million gift from Jerome ’60 and Linda Paros aimed at accelerating its cutting-edge work in atmospheric research and hazard mitigation by enabling a new center of excellence. The gift is the largest ever received by the college.