New research led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst definitively resolves a long-standing discrepancy in the geologic record that pitted studies of marine ice-sheet behavior against those…
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A male construction workers places a board on a wall AMHERST, Mass. – A new study released today by the University of Massachusetts Amherst Labor Center reveals that nearly 1-in-10 Rhode Island…
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Brooke Owens Fellows logo of an astronaut helmet with wings on each side AMHERST, Mass. – Amanda Desmond, a junior economics and space science major in the University of Massachusetts Amherst…
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Associate Professor , Jessica Schiffman, , the interim department head of the Chemical Engineering Department at UMass Amherst, has been selected to the “2021 I&EC Research Class of Influential Researchers – the Americas” by the journal…
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“Church Space and the Capital in Prewar Japan,” a groundbreaking new book by Garrett Washington, associate professor of history at UMass Amherst, has been published by the University of Hawai'i Press…
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Among primates, including humans, hair is an important feature of diversity and evolution, serving functions tied to thermoregulation, protection, camouflage and signaling. However, the evolution of…
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New research led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst into the life and times of a New England salt marsh fundamentally changes our understanding of how salt marshes acquire the sediment that…
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A yearlong collaboration between student activists and University of Massachusetts Amherst administration has led to the launch of easily accessible equity-minded and graphics-rich data dashboards…
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College of Engineering researchers Jinglei Ping , mechanical and industrial engineering, and Jun Yao , electrical and computer engineering, have received National Institutes of Health (NIH)…
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A research study by Professor Priyank Arora has won the 2022 People’s Choice Award at the recently concluded Early-career Sustainable Operations Workshop. At this workshop (organized by the Wharton…
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