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With 110 undergraduate majors and 127 graduate programs offered on campus and online, there are hundreds of opportunities to pursue your passion at UMass Amherst. Study on campus or take advantage of a wide array of flexible and innovative learning options.
UMass Amherst students make art exhibition accessible to traditionally excluded communities by translating museum materials into Spanish.
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UMass Amherst has opened doors for graduate student Karin Lehnigk to study the fascinating back stories of landscapes on Earth and Mars.
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UMass Amherst English professor and poet Martín Espada has won the National Book Award for his book “Floaters,” a collection of poetry that runs from scathing socio-political commentary to homages of family and love.
Recently, researchers at UMass Amherst published the results of a new study that connects land use, the coast and the climate, to identify various workable interventions that could guide the Bay’s restoration.
The analysis by Philadelphia-based Clarivate Analytics, owner of the Web of Science, serves as the basis for regular listings of researchers whose citation records put them in the top 1% by citations for their field and year.
Assistant professor Xian Du, mechanical and industrial engineering, has received an $810,000 grant from a subsidiary of Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil company to support the development of a novel sensing technology.
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