AMHERST, Mass. - A research team headed by Professor Anna Nagurney of the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Isenberg School of Management has developed a new model that improves the performance of medical supply chain networks for blood. The model takes into account the procurement, testing, processing, distribution and perishable nature of blood throughout medical supply chains.
AMHERST, Mass. - Research by University of Massachusetts Amherst neuroscientist Luke Remage-Healey and colleagues has for the first time provided direct evidence that estrogens are produced in the brain’s nerve cell terminals on demand, very quickly and precisely where needed. "This is an incredibly precise control mechanism and it solidifies a new role for estrogens in the brain," says Remage-Healey.
AMHERST, Mass. - The University of Massachusetts Amherst’s transit system is teaming up with the College of Engineering’s Transportation Center and Hartford-based CTTRANSIT to offer a first-of-its-kind certificate in transit management and operations.
AMHERST, Mass. - A study conducted by University of Massachusetts Amherst psychologist Lisa Scott suggests that long before they are able to speak, infants hear words that shape their development in important ways. In an experiment, Scott found that the words parents use to name objects influence the developing brain and infants’ understanding of the world far earlier than researchers previously believed.
AMHERST, Mass. - In a new book hitting stores this month, Raymond Bradley, Distinguished Professor of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, tells the inside story of what he says it was like to be the target of intimidation in the last decade by powerful figures in politics and government who tried hard to suppress scientific findings on global warming in favor of their own political message.
AMHERST, Mass. - In one of the first studies of emotions in people with early Alzheimer’s disease to survey the patients themselves, Rebecca Ready, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and colleagues found that the patients reported feeling significantly more afraid, sad, angry, tense and confused than healthy age-matched control subjects.
AMHERST, Mass. - University of Massachusetts Amherst polymer scientist Ryan Hayward recently received a five-year, $750,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to improve understanding of the fundamentals for the next generation of lightweight and flexible electricity-conducting polymers.
AMHERST, Mass. - Naomi Gerstel, professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, was recently named a Distinguished Professor following approval of the appointment by the university’s Board of Trustees.
AMHERST, Mass. - Stephen J. Cavanagh, professor and associate dean for academic and clinical affairs in the College of Nursing at Wayne State University in Detroit, will be the new dean of the School of Nursing at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Provost James V. Staros announced today.
