USDA’s Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) has awarded a two-year, $300,000 grant to an interdisciplinary group of researchers from UMass Amherst to develop tools to estimate the mass of…
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AMHERST, Mass. – The University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of Food Science has been awarded a five-year, $482,549 grant to fund an experiential learning program for undergraduates, including…
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AMHERST, Mass. – A chemist and kinesiologist got on a bus, but this isn’t the set-up to a joke. Instead, kinesiologist and lead author Ned Debold and chemist Dhandapani Venkataraman, “DV,” began…
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Each year, the Summer Undergraduate Research Program, Summer Enrichment Program and High School Health Careers Program host high achieving students from backgrounds underrepresented in health care…
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Haley Schachter, SOM ’22, and Aisling Ryan, RN, DNP candidate in the GSN, are the recipients of the 2020 Mick Huppert Community Health Scholar Award. The award honors the work and mission of the late…
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The New England Commission of Higher Education has confirmed Baystate Health System in Springfield is included as an instructional location within the accreditation of UMass Medical School. According…
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UMass Boston announced today that Chancellor-Elect Marcelo Suárez-Orozco and his wife, Carola, have established an endowed George Floyd Honorary Scholarship Fund to provide financial support to…
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AMHERST, Mass. – Evolutionary and developmental biologist Craig Albertson and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst report that they have identified a molecular mechanism that allows…
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AMHERST, Mass. – In what they believe is the first study of its kind, researchers led by postdoctoral researcher Luiz A. Domeignoz-Horta and senior author Kristen DeAngelis at the University of…
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AMHERST, Mass. – Beginning with the spring 2021 term, and continuing for each spring and fall term through spring 2023, the University of Massachusetts Amherst will make standardized tests optional…
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