James F. Manwell, director of the Wind Energy Center and professor of mechanical and industrial engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, was the primary author of a section of a wind-…
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Foresters and ecologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst this month released a new statewide guide, “Planting for Resilience: Selecting Urban Trees in Massachusetts,” a manual designed to…
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Charlie Connolly, a junior mechanical engineering major from Braintree, is trying to teach Jacob Wilson how to shoot and score in floor hockey. But at the moment, Wilson is more interested in talking…
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A research team led by Asst. Prof. Asst. Prof. Gulden Camci-Unal Gulden Camci-Unal of the Department of Chemical Engineering Department of Chemical Engineering is developing new “breathable”…, A Growing Health Crisis, Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, claiming more lives – over 840,000 every year – than all forms of cancer and chronic illnesses combined, according to a report…, Using Unconventional Raw Materials for Tissue Engineering, Camci-Unal has been using common raw materials to design new biomaterials for tissue engineering. In 2018, using Origami (the Japanese art of paper folding) origami (the Japanese art of paper…
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Associate Professor Robert Fisher (Physics) was part of an international team that recently published a research article in Nature that discovered how light reacts after a unique type of supernova…
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Assistant Professor of Exercise and Health Sciences Huimin Yan has received a two-year, $154,000 American Heart Association Institutional Research Enhancement Award for her research of vascular…
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Today, October 10, is World Mental Health Day, and Dainius Pūras , the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to health, released an open statement on suicide prevention to mark the day.…
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UMass Medical School received a $365,000 grant to collaborate with the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review to examine the clinical and economic value of future therapies to treat and prevent…
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A new study by researchers at UMass Medical School and the University of Queensland in Australia examining a retrovirus in koala bears reveals new insights into the genetic evolution of vertebrates,…, Related story on UMassMedNow, New study reveals an innate genome immune response to retroviruses in koalas
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Amir Mitchell, PhD, assistant professor of molecular medicine in the Program in Systems Biology, has received the Maximizing Investigators' Research Award from the National Institute of General…
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