NEWTON, Mass. – As the Greater Boston business community prepares for a post-COVID-19 environment, the Mount Ida Campus of UMass Amherst is opening co-working space for startup or small companies interested in co-locating with the state’s flagship public research university.
The Innovation and Collaboration Space on UMass Amherst’s Newton, Mass. campus includes co-working office and lab space, with an additional makerspace planned in the near future.
Govind Srimathveeravalli, an assistant professor in the mechanical and industrial engineering (MIE) department and an adjunct professor in the biomedical engineering (BME) department at UMass Amherst, has received a $1,366,330 grant over four years from the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. He will pursue a revolutionary technique for tissue-engineering grafts for bladder reconstruction.
Food science Ph.D. candidate Cassandra Suther has received a prestigious predoctoral fellowship of $180,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) to study the effect of norovirus on the development and severity of food allergies.
AMHERST, Mass. – Not long after earning her Ph.D. in sociology and losing her brief first job with a software startup that shut down overnight, Rachel Volberg took a chance – on gambling studies, a nearly nonexistent field.
Thirty-five years later, Volberg, research professor in the University of Massachusetts Amherst School of Public Health and Health
A compass and a calculator can help teach the basics of mathematics, but Iman Chahine believes arts, games, tools and social practices used in everyday culture can make the lessons richer.
She says an unspoken language found in murals, beads and sewing patterns can help demystify mathematics for schoolchildren.
And now she has a second Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to help prove it.
An interactive online science program for middle school students developed and presented by UMass Medical School researchers will deepen its partnership with Worcester Public Schools this fall, according to organizers.
The fast-spreading Delta variant is believed to be contributing to the recent uptick in COVID-19 cases in certain areas, particularly among those who have not been vaccinated, a UMass Medical School infectious disease expert and member of Gov. Baker’s COVID-19 Advisory Group said.
AMHERST, Mass. – The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) and the University of Massachusetts continue to gather data on the prevalence and incidence of COVID-19 in the state. As a response to improving COVID rates, the study is shifting focus toward the study of antibody prevalence, as well as COVID infections in the general population.
In an article appearing in the American Journal of Sexuality Education, doctoral student Mira Weil, senior author and faculty advisor Aline Gubrium, and alumna Aneliese Apala Flaherty ‘18MPH describe how they developed a new body-positive, queer and trans inclusive sexuality education curriculum for elementary school students called
Three years ago, a private company called Boston Dynamics released a viral YouTube video of a two-legged, humanoid robot that could perform backflips. It was the first successful demonstration of its kind, but one whose research remains proprietary and hidden from the public.