AMHERST, Mass. – A University of Massachusetts Amherst researcher is one of the lead investigators who have received a five-year, $2.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to improve medication adherence among vulnerable populations with hypertension, or high blood pressure.

AMHERST, Mass. – A multi-institutional team led by University of Massachusetts professor Paul Siqueira, electrical and computer engineering, has been awarded a three-year, $4.5 million NASA contract to develop an airborne microwave sensing instrument capable of characterizing the depth and density of North American snowpack with unprecedented accuracy.

AMHERST, Mass. – White publishers and editors used their newspapers to build, nurture, and protect white supremacy across the South in the decades after the Civil War. At the same time, a vibrant Black press fought to disrupt these efforts and force the United States to live up to its democratic ideals.

Elon Musk. Mark Zuckerberg. Peter Thiel. Steve Jobs. Jack Dorsey. Bill Gates. Jeff Bezos. The tech industry has long suffered from a well-known lack of diversity, but Nilanjana Dasgupta, professor of psychological and brain sciences and director of the Institute of Diversity Sciences (IDS) at UMass Amherst, is part of a group that’s working to change that.

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Was COP26 worth it?

Visiting Prof. Pedro Letria, a Portuguese photographer and writer, is fascinated by how images can be simultaneously re