Message from the Vice Provost

Welcome.

The University of Massachusetts Amherst is a top public research institution. As a leading center for scientific discovery and scholarly activities, the campus contributes to the Commonwealth’s position as a technological and economic leader. The Offices of the Vice Provost for Research support the pursuit of these activities on campus and off.

The campus was founded in 1867 with a Land Grant mission to build a strong, self-sustaining nation on a foundation of agricultural and technological progress. More than a century later, the University of Massachusetts Amherst has fulfilled that mission. It is now our responsibility to prepare tomorrow’s leaders for the challenges of a new world and the information age. Well-prepared leaders who know how to adeptly harvest information and use technology well will guide us to new discoveries, new learning, and new accomplishments in the arts and the sciences. We must succeed in this mission if our nation and our world are to sustain themselves and to make economic, technological, environmental, and social progress.

This campus is ready. We have world-class faculty, excellent students, a historical commitment to community service and social improvement, a tradition of technical leadership, and the public responsibility to further economic development in the Commonwealth.

With the multiplying effect of support from organizations beyond the campus, our faculty are performing exciting research and scholarship and are winning national recognition in polymer research, computer science, education, economics, nursing, art, animal sciences, engineering, and management. Our faculty continue to cross traditional academic boundaries to pursue new knowledge in interdisciplinary areas such as neuroscience, environmental research, the life sciences, and nanotechnology.

The Offices of the Vice Provost for Research support faculty and students in their scholarly and research activities and enable the translation of that work into social, economic, technical, and environmental advances. Our aim is to increase the campus' capacity for research, scholarship, and innovation by facilitating relationships between our faculty and the institutions—federal, state, and private—that sustain their work.

Offices in the Research Area are ready to help. We invite you—faculty, industry, funding agencies, legislators—to visit us on campus at 239 Whitmore and 70 Butterfield Terrace. Come with your ideas, your goals and your suggestions.

In the meantime, explore this web site and discover more about Research Area services and research and scholarly activity at the Amherst campus.

Discover why the University of Massachusetts Amherst is considered one of the top public research universities in the Northeast.

Sincerely,

Paul Kostecki
Vice Provost for Research