In partnership with PSI and Cascade Designs, Inc., the University of Massachusetts Amherst is sharing this news release on a new technology project funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects…
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UMass Amherst physicist Andrea Pocar AMHERST, Mass. – University of Massachusetts Amherst physicist Andrea Pocar is among the international team of scientists recently awarded the European Physical…
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AMHERST, Mass. – By ensuring ethnic diversity in a largescale genetic study, an international team of researchers, including a University of Massachusetts Amherst genetic epidemiologist, has…
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The College of Humanities and Fine Arts (HFA) has announced its 2021 College Outstanding Teaching Award recipients, Milan Dragicevich and Pari Riahi. Dragicevich, professor in the department of…, Milan Dragicevich, Dragicevich, an actor and director, has been instructing and inspiring UMass Amherst students in numerous aspects of stage performance since 2004. His success comes from years of experience, a…, Pari Riahi, Riahi’s teaching inspiration began with one of her own academic mentors who she says expressed “sincere empathy for each and every student.” Using that approach in her architectural design studio and…
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NEWTON, Mass. – The University of Massachusetts Amherst and Digital Ready, a Boston-based non-profit, have launched a groundbreaking new living learning lab to give talented, young Black and Latinx…
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AMHERST, Mass. – A research team from the University of Massachusetts Amherst has created an electronic microsystem that can intelligently respond to information inputs without any external energy…
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AMHERST, Mass. – Wilmore Webley, associate professor of microbiology and director of pre-med advising, will receive a special award at a community Juneteenth event at the Raymond A. Jordan Senior…
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Cedric de Leon The American Sociological Association (ASA) announced the results of their 2021 elections and the UMass Amherst Department of Sociology is well represented with one professor, two…
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Laura Ciolkowski Laura Ciolkowski, senior lecturer of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, is the recipient of the 2021 Distinguished Community Engagement Award for Teaching. This award, conferred…
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A group of researchers at the UMass Amherst College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) led by Assistant Professor Hamed Zamani and doctoral student Helia Hashemi is one of 10 teams…
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