Animation Career Review has ranked the Illustration Program at the College of Visual & Performing Arts (CVPA) #2 among more than 140 colleges with illustration programs from across the US. The…
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AMHERST, Mass. – A new program at UMass Amherst has been awarded two grants totaling $6.3 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to ensure that the transformation of the electric grid is…
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AMHERST, Mass. – Venus flytraps do it, trap-jaw ants do it, and now materials scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst can do it, too – they discovered a way of efficiently converting…
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Members of the campus’s Wind Energy Center (WEC) last week helped to launch the coalition New England for Offshore Wind, (NE4OSW), of which WEC is a member institution. NE4OSWis a coalition of…
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UMass Medical School is enrolling healthy volunteers to take part in a Phase II/III clinical trial testing whether a messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine candidate can prevent infection with the virus that…
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A UMass Medical School infectious disease specialist is urging people to get vaccinated soon against influenza, as the threat approaches of what has been called a “twindemic,” the annual spike in…
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A UMass Medical School professor is co-directing a first-of-its-kind national program to enhance diversity in the academic biomedical workforce, funded by a $1.3 million, five-year grant from the…
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Students, faculty and researchers interested in the rich cultural and historical tapestry of Portuguese-Americans in the Merrimack Valley and beyond will soon have access to a digital archive…, , “We want to model the visual quality on the university’s Southeast Asian archive, which is a state-of-the-art example of digital history,” says Fitzsimons ’13, a historian who previously worked for…
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science announced recently that it has selected Brookhaven National Laboratory to lead one of five National Quantum Information Science Research…
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Adeja Crearer Adeja Crearer didn’t know who she could be until she scaled the walls she built around herself. The double River Hawk and associate producer for CNN in Atlanta told the incoming first-…
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