Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina , professor of English and the Paul Murray Kendall Chair in Biography at UMass Amherst, was recently named a Spotlight Scholar. Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina Gerzina has…
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UMassD celebrates Black History Month graphic Dear UMassD Community, In the United States, February is designated as “Black History Month,” a time when Americans of all walks of life honor and…, 54th Annual Share the Dream Banquet, Thursday, February 3, 2022 6 - 7:30 p.m. Registration via Zoom, Frederick Douglass Unity House 33rd Annual National African American Read-In, Thursday, February 17, 2022 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. LARTS Atrium, 2022 Black History Month Show, Saturday, February 26, 2022 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. Main Auditorium For a complete list of events, visit our Black History Month website . Please contact Black History 4 Seasons Council co-chairs Peggy…
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Abigail Keith works in a lab at UMass Dartmouth Dolphins and porpoises exploit their natural sonar – called echolocation – to move in complicated underwater environments, even in low visibility…
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Black hole graphic UMass Dartmouth Assistant Professor Scott Field , Ph.D., and graduate students, Tousif Islam and Feroz H. Shaik, recently partook in a study that found the first evidence of a…, UMassD’s footprint in gravitational wave data , The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth has a strong connection to the study of gravitational wave data. Two of the three founders of LIGO machines (and Nobel Prize winners), Kip Thorne , and …
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USCGA Superintendent Rear Admiral William Kelly and UMass Boston Chancellor Marcelo Suárez-Orozco sign the agreement on Friday. Image by: Gray Milkowski UMass Boston and the United States Coast Guard…
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Elinor Karlsson, PhD, offers insights into various applications of modern comparative genomics in a perspective piece published by the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science. The paper…
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Katya Makeyeva, a native of Kazakhstan, moved to the United States after high school to further her education in science. “For as long as I can remember, I always wanted to be a genetic engineer,”…
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AMHERST, Mass. — Researchers including a postdoc at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have created a gear-shaped photonic crystal microring that increases the strength of light-matter…
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Nefertiti Walker, vice chancellor for diversity, equity and inclusion, discusses her work with The Collective Think Tank, a global consortium of some of today’s greatest academic minds and industry…
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Laurie Godfrey, professor emerita of anthropology, has co-edited an all-Indigenous researcher edition of “ Malagasy Nature ,” the first time the Madagascar-based journal has focused solely on work…
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