UMass Sesquicentennial
Skip to main content

Feature Stories

Salthouse and graduate student Akshaya Shanmugam with 3D printed imaging jig
Digitizing Biology
Engineers design new diagnostic and imaging technologies for personalized health monitoring
Graduate students test the equipment on the treadmill in the lab.
Proactive Health
Researchers test and validate wearable sensors to improve health management
A close up view of wires and circuits.
Power Trip
Model-based Energy Management Systems Drive ‘Smart’ Buildings
The Muon g-2 storage ring, in its current location at Brookhaven National Lab.
Lords of the Muon Ring
Nuclear physicist helps track huge magnetic ring across country
Detail of insects in "Monthly Insect Entertainment" (1749) by Rösel.
Cultural Historian
The science of describing, from insects to artifacts
Fingers hold a vial containing a nanogel precursor polymer solution
On Target
Polymeric nanogels aid in more efficient drug delivery
Life Sciences Laboratory Building Facade
Building Momentum
Life Science Laboratories open avenue for innovation
Brain scans and magnified brain cell
Brain, Disrupted
The environmental effects of toxins on brain development
Mother and child in Ixil community in the highlands of Guatemala.
Somebody’s Children
Examining adoption and reproduction politics across race, culture, and country
Andrea Foulkes and Nicholas Reich stand in the Integrated Sciences Building
‘Big’ Discoveries
Next-generation analytics lead to biomedical insights
Tess Brickley '15, Kelly Malone '13, Alexander Borges '14, Ankur Sheel '13
High Impact
Campus honors undergraduates for their achievements
Sneakers for Success (2012) recipients of the first annual David Wolf Prize.
Growing Innovation
UMass competition feeds the ‘entrepreneurial ecosystem’