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Lisa Chasan-Taber

Improving Women’s Health

International expert sheds light on physical activity and pregnancy

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UMass Amherst Professor Lisa Chasan-Taber and images of pregnant women

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UMass Amherst Professor Lisa Chasan-Taber and images of pregnant women
Improving Women’s Health
International expert sheds light on physical activity and pregnancy
UMass Amherst biophysicist Jennifer Ross is an expert on microtubules.
Serious About Science
Interdisciplinary researcher makes an early career splash in biophysics
UMass sociologist Naomi Gerstel (far left) with her graduate students.
Family Values, Family Realities
Renowned sociologist broadens our vision of work, family, and inequality
UMass Amherst epidemiologist Susan Hankinson in her office
Pathways to Prevention
Epidemiologist investigates ways to better predict breast cancer risk
Associate professor of Kinesiology Barry Braun and students in the lab
Movement as Medicine
Barry Braun seeks an exercise prescription to fight diabetes and other metabolic disorders
Food scientist David Julian McClements in his lab
Food for Thought
Innovator delivers novel food technologies for a healthier future
Isenberg School of Management Professor Anna Nagurney teaches her students
The Business of Supernetworks
Isenberg School professor studies the flows of a complex, connected world
Chemist Vincent Rotello in his office with nanoparticle models on screen
Good Things, Small Packages
Tiny particles deliver big for nanomedicine
Professor of Veterinary and Animal Sciences Barbara Osborne in her lab
Life Sciences Detective
Osborne follows hot leads to develop therapeutic treatments for disease