For their senior project, a team of engineering students designed and built an automated physical chess board that allows for play by opponents in different locations.
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A $21.5M gift from trailblazing nursing educator Elaine Marieb ‘69PhD, ‘85MS will transform learning opportunities for nursing students and service to the broader community.
Cultivating a Community of Compassion
At UMass Amherst, Carl McDonald '20 found a community of like-minded peers while pursuing his dream of studying to be a nurse.
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Stephanie Murray '18 found a home in UMass's Journalism Department, along with real-world opportunities to practice her craft.
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UMass, which ranked 18 out of 328, is among those that “have displayed a deep and thorough commitment to addressing climate change, protecting the natural world and encouraging environmental responsibility both through their campus operations and course curricula,” according to “Sierra Magazine.”
UMass Amherst announced Thursday that it has received a gift of $21.5 million from the Elaine Nicpon Marieb Charitable Foundation.
Raymond Bradley, Distinguished Professor of geosciences, will lead a team of researchers to Peary Land, Greenland’s northernmost region with one of the earth’s harshest climates, to discover how humans settled and survived there beginnin
2022 marks the eighth straight year that UMass has been ranked as a top public university.
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