AMHERST, Mass. – Millions of Americans will visit New England’s beaches this summer to cool off, play in the waves and soak up the sun. Until now, the factors governing which beaches slope gradually to the sea and which ones end abruptly in a steep drop-off have been largely unknown. However, new research from the University of Massachusetts Amherst reveals, with unprecedented detail, how the grain size of beach sand relates to the slope of the beach itself.
The University of Massachusetts System Office of Technology Commercialization and Ventures (OTCV) recently announced the recipients of their 2021 grant awards which include UMass Dartmouth faculty members. Professor Sukalyan Sengupta (Civil & Environmental Engineering), Professor Amit Tandon (Mechanical Engineering), and Assistant Professor Steve Zanganeh (Bioengineering) each received an OTCV grant for their innovative research proposals.
Inspired by initiatives like Singing for Change, their observations of community need, and a personal desire to make music with a purpose, UMass Dartmouth Associate Professor Ronald Sherwin (Mu
The Office of Business Development & Innovation at UMass Medical School has announced the 2021 BRIDGE Fund grants, which support innovative scientific advances at the Medical School.
Sabahat Rahman, SOM ’23, didn’t know the word for inequity when she was growing up, splitting time with her mom in California and her dad in Bangladesh, but she knew what it looked like.
“It just did not sit well with me that depending on what situation they were born into, people had very different paths for their lives,” Rahman said.
Worcester Commons, the newest dining hall on campus, has received Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).
The University of Massachusetts Office of the President and UMass Amherst Institute of Diversity Sciences, in partnership with the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center and the Massachusetts Business Roundtable, are hosting a series of virtual summits on June 29-30 where panelists will show which strategies created the greatest improvement in minority and women students’ graduation rates and industry re
Distinguished Professor of food science David Julian McClements served on the National Academy of Sciences Planning Committee for a workshop on building a more sus
The principal investigator of an ongoing clinical trial of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 mRNA vaccine said UMass Medical School intends to start enrolling by the end of June approximately 100 participants from its initial Pfizer trial in a study of a vaccine booster. The booster would be given roughly six months after participants received their second shot of the original vaccine.