An unprecedented gambling study, mandated by Massachusetts legislation that approved the introduction of casinos in the Commonwealth, has ended with the delivery of a sweeping, 178-page report that…
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Siyuan Rao , biomedical engineering, has received a two-year, $70,000 Young Investigator Grant from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF) to develop optical probes needed to…
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Martín Espada, poet and professor of English, is a finalist for the National Book Award in poetry for his collection “Floaters.” Martín Espada Five books are now shortlisted for National Book Awards…
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Twenty years ago, when professor of operations and information management Bob Nakosteen agreed to teach Isenberg’s first online graduate course to 18 MBA students, it did not start out well. “Online…, Big Demand and Rapid Growth, MaryBeth Kimball, director of new business development and administration for professional programs at Isenberg, began working with students early in the existence of the online MBA program. “In the…, Online Learning in the Zoom Age, The Isenberg online MBA program has grown from those first 18 students in Bob Nakosteen’s statistics class two decades ago to more than 1,400 current enrolled students and more than 5,600 alumni…
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In a pair of recently published papers, Michael Rawlins , a professor in the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s geosciences department and associate director of the Climate System Research…
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A team of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has announced a major new advance in understanding how our genetic information eventually translates into functional proteins—one of…
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The University of Massachusetts Amherst Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (CEERE) has received a five-year, $1.75 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to continue…
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AMHERST, Mass. – Clinical decisions made in the delivery setting as to whether to employ vaginal delivery or cesarean section are often made under high pressure, and with great uncertainty, and have…
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“I am saddened to learn of the passing of former U.S. Secretary of State General Colin Powell. General Powell’s trailblazing career was marked by many firsts – the first Black national security…
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AMHERST, Mass. – Nitrous oxide (N2O) is a potent greenhouse gas, with 300 times the warming ability of carbon dioxide. Due to fertilizer runoff from farm fields, an increasing load of nitrogen is…
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