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.

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 in

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.

AMHERST, Mass. – UMass Dining has added another award to its resume. The recently constructed Worcester Commons at UMass Amherst is being honored with the Best New Facility Award from Food Management (FM) Magazine.  

This summer, 80 Boston and Lawrence high school students who participate in federal TRIO and other educational opportunity programs at UMass Boston will join peers nationwide in the Good Trouble Book Club to read works by the late civil rights ico

AMHERST, Mass. – A scientific team has shown that the release of neurotransmitters in the brain is impaired in patients with schizophrenia who have a rare, single-gene mutation known to predispose people to a range of neurodevelopmental disorders.