AMHERST, Mass. – UMass Transit Services has organized a “Fill-a-Bus” campaign to aid those affected by the recent storm that battered the Eastern Seaboard. Hundreds of people have been forced out of their homes and are currently seeking refuge in shelters and supplies are running dangerously low, according to organizers of the effort.
Community members in the Amherst and Hadley area are being asked to donate toiletries and personal care items, such as soap, toothpaste, toilet paper, cotton swabs, diapers, baby wipes, toothbrushes, razors, combs and hairbrushes, dental floss, hand sanitizer,
AMHERST, Mass. – The Mark H. McCormack Department of Sport Management at the Isenberg School of Management, UMass Amherst has announced that Olympic agent and marketing executive Peter Carlisle, managing director of Octagon’s Olympic and Action Sports division, will be the next featured guest in its executive-in-residence program. The department will welcome Carlisle to the UMass Amherst campus on Tuesday, Nov. 27. Carlisle most notably managed the career of Olympic swimmer and gold medalist Michael Phelps.
AMHERST, Mass. – It may seem like common sense that the quality of online video streaming affects how willing viewers are to watch videos at a website. But until computer science researcher Ramesh Sitaraman at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and collaborators at Akamai developed a way to rigorously study the question, no one had been able to scientifically test the assumption.
BOSTON – For almost 150 years, the University of Massachusetts Amherst has emphasized public service as critical to the social and economic development of the Commonwealth, nation and the world. On Wednesday, Nov. 14 at 6 p.m., UMass Amherst will host the first-ever A Salute to Service Awards at the Boston Harbor Hotel.
AMHERST, Mass. – Recently biologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst led by Wei-lih Lee have identified a new molecular player in asymmetric cell division, a regulatory protein named She1 whose role in chromosome- and spindle positioning wasn’t known before. Asymmetric cell division is important in the self-renewal of stem cells and because it ensures that daughter cells have different fates and functions.