Nine UMass Medical School student volunteers administered COVID-19 vaccinations to the community on Monday, April 19, at the YWCA Central Massachusetts in downtown Worcester. The mobile clinic, which delivered roughly 300 doses of the Moderna vaccine, was one of scores so far deploying trained health care personnel as well as nonclinical volunteers in the Vaccine Corps, a program organized by UMass Medical School’s Commonwealth Medicine to bring COVID-19 vaccinations to where people need them the most.

Assistant professor Omar Abdelrahman, of the department of chemical engineering, has received a five-year, $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career Development (CAREER) Program to develop dynamic catalysts that can utilize renewable electricity to generate more environmentally sound and inexpensive chemical production. Specifically, his NSF research will attempt to transform the electrochemical oxidation of hydrocarbons into oxygenates.

AMHERST, Mass. – Areas with a high share of minority population were four times more likely to have suffered a power outage during the recent Texas blackout compared to predominantly white areas, reveals a new analysis published by the Electricity Growth and Use in Developing Economies (e-GUIDE) Initiative. e-GUIDE is led by Jay Taneja, assistant professor, electrical and computer engineering at UMass Amherst.

AMHERST, Mass. – Wind energy experts, in a study by researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory along with Erin Baker of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, predict significant reductions in the cost of wind energy by 2050, according to new research published today in the journal Nature Energy.

AMHERST, Mass. – Last month saw the average concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) climb to almost 418 parts-per-million, a level not seen on Earth for millions of years. In order to get a sense of what our future may hold, scientists have been looking to the deep past. Now, new research from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, which combines climate, ice sheet and vegetation model simulations with a suite of different climatic and geologic scenarios, opens the clearest window yet into the deep history of the Antarctic ice sheet and what our planetary future might hold.

Andrew Marshall was 16 seconds into a cover of his idol John Mayer’s “Gravity” when Nick Jonas slapped a red buzzer and flipped around to watch Marshall, assuring the 21-year-old River Hawk’s place as a contestant on “The Voice.”

Though 7.4 million viewers saw Jonas hit the button, Marshall, a music business major, had settled into the song, eyes closed.

This verdict is an affirmation that Black Lives do Matter, and in particular the life of George Floyd.

Something unusual was buzzing across the moonless night sky on North Campus recently.

Four teams of area high school students got some expert advice from UMass Lowell entrepreneurs while competing for a $500 first-place purse at the second annual