AMHERST, Mass.— The German and Scandinavian Studies program in the department of languages, literatures, and cultures at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has been designated a German Center of…
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The ADVANCE program has announced that three research teams are recipients of ADVANCE Collaborative Research Seed Grants for 2020-21. These competitive grants aim to foster the development of…, Aurora Liu Genin, , assistant professor, department of management, Wenting Ma, , assistant professor, department of finance This project explores how human diversity of director boards affect disruptive technological innovation. Corporate leadership diversity has increasingly…, Narges Mahyar, , assistant professor, college of information and computer sciences, Pari Riahi, , assistant professor, department of architecture, Ali Sarvghad, , extension associate professor, college of information and computer sciences This project investigates the impacts of the current pandemic on Amherst residents' civic lives, focusing on mobility,…, Michelle Farkas,, assistant professor, department of chemistry, Shelly Peyton, , associate professor, department of chemical engineering Macrophages are unique cells that can both activate and suppress the immune system, by rapidly switching between states often referred to as…
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Banu Subramaniam, professor in the department of women, gender, sexuality studies, won the 2020 Society for Literature, Science & the Arts (SLSA) Michelle Kendrick Memorial Book Prize for the…
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AMHERST, MASS. – A University of Massachusetts Amherst environmental health scientist has used an unprecedented objective approach to identify which molecular mechanisms in mammals are the most…
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AMHERST, Mass. – For apple growers in Massachusetts and across the country, thinning the crop each year is a labor-intensive practice that must be done to ensure that trees bear fruit each year, that…
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Topline results and crosstabs for the poll can be found at , www.umass.edu/poll, AMHERST, Mass. – As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to weigh on minds heading into the election, new University of Massachusetts Amherst / WCVB Poll results released today find 79% of Massachusetts…, Leadership During the Pandemic, The poll found that while voters have a dismal view of the federal government’s response to the pandemic, they are overwhelmingly pleased by the leadership shown at the state and local levels. Sixty-…, Schooling During the Pandemic, With the new school year now underway, the poll found that only 10% of Massachusetts parents’ children are attending school in-person full time, while more than half (53%) report their children are…, Eviction & Foreclosure Protections, In April 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the state of Massachusetts passed an emergency law to stop evictions and foreclosures. The temporary ban expired Oct. 18, although some federal…, Racial Justice & Black Lives Matter, “Months after the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and even in the midst of the steady decline in the number of Black Lives Matter protests across the state, the Black Lives Matter…, Possible Special Senate Election, Asked about their preference in a potential Democratic primary for a special Senate election, should a possible President Biden appoint U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren to a cabinet position, U.S. Rep.…, Methodology, This University of Massachusetts Amherst / WCVB Poll of 713 registered voters in Massachusetts was conducted Oct. 14-21 by YouGov. YouGov interviewed 725 registered voter respondents who were…, Topline results and crosstabs for the poll can be found at , www.umass.edu/poll
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AMHERST, Mass. – A team of researchers led by microbiologists Klaus Nüsslein and Marie Kroeger at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in a new report say they have pinpointed the source – methane…
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Seven UMass Boston students have been selected as the inaugural cohort of the Civic Action Fellows Program . The fellows will build their civic agency and skills for collective action through bi-…
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Backed by a $100,000 grant from the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources, UMass Lowell is conducting a campus-wide renewable energy study to take stock of its current infrastructure and map…
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When Emily Crespo profile at UMass Lowell Emily Crespo joined the RHSA landing page River Hawk Scholars Academy (RHSA) three years ago, the first-generation college student from East Boston was…
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