Five video essays designed and produced by Barbara Zecchi, director of film studies at UMass Amherst, made it into the “Best Video Essays of 2021” by Sight & Sound, the prestigious monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute (BFI).
Nefertiti Walker, vice chancellor for diversity, equity and inclusion, discusses her work with The Collective Think Tank, a global consortium of some of today’s greatest academic minds and industry leaders focused on gender parity and improving diversity. A first of its kind, this group will share data, insights and information to promote more opportunity for women to succeed in sports.
UMass Chan Medical School has installed 32 electric vehicle charging ports, with support from National Grid as part of the company’s Electric Vehicle Charging Station Program, which aims to expand EV adoption, accelerate usage and lower the cost of installation of EV chargers.
The 16 dual-port level 2 stations were installed in the UMass Chan West parking garage, which is used by employees of the Medical School and UMass Memorial Medical Center.
Katherine A. Fitzgerald, PhD, has been named the 2022 recipient of the American Association of Immunologists - Thermo Fisher Meritorious Career Award. The award, given by the AAI, recognizes a mid-career scientist for outstanding research contributions to the field of immunology.
AMHERST, Mass. — Researchers including a postdoc at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have created a gear-shaped photonic crystal microring that increases the strength of light-matter interactions without sacrificing optical quality. The result is an on-chip microresonator with an optical quality factor 50 times better than the previous record in slow light devices that could improve microresonators used in a range of photonics applications, including sensing and metrology, nonlinear optics and cavity quantum electrodynamics.
UMass Dartmouth Chancellor Professor and Acting Vice Chancellor for Research Dr.
Associate Professor and Department Chairperson of Bioengineering Dr. Tracie Ferriera is the recipient of a 1,498,020 National Science Foundation (NSF) award for her project titled “Scholarships to Accelerate Engineering Leadership and Identity in Graduate Students.”
AMHERST, Mass. – A new study conducted by Baystate Medical Center and the University of Massachusetts Amherst and published today in Drug and Alcohol Dependence strengthens the case for providing agonist medications in jail.