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UMass Pilot Tests Alumni-created Innovative Trash and Recycling Sorting Robot

rStream, a robotics-based recycling startup founded by two College of Engineering alumni, returned to campus to pilot its newest recycling innovation.

Published date Friday, April 4, 2025 Go to all news list News

UMass Research Wins Award for Technology that Removes PFAS from Water

The winning project is based on research by David Reckhow, research professor of civil and environmental engineering, and Julie Bliss Mullen.

Published date Thursday, March 27, 2025 Go to all news list News

UMass Amherst Nurse-Engineer Team Honored for Inventing IV Pole Designed to Improve Patient Safety

Elaine Marieb Center for Nursing and Engineering Innovation’s robust research is helping to improve the usability of intravenous smart pumps.

Published date Friday, March 14, 2025 Go to all news list News

ChE’s Neil Forbes and Colleagues Engineer Pioneering Bacterial Treatment for High-mortality Cancers

A UMass Amherst team uses non-toxic bacteria to fight high-mortality cancers such as pancreatic, liver, ovarian, and metastatic-breast tumors.

Published date Wednesday, March 12, 2025 Go to all news list News

I-Corps Showcases a Half-decade of Entrepreneurial Innovation

I-Corps@UMass has triggered more than five years of progress “building an innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem here at UMass and in the Pioneer Valley.”

Published date Friday, February 28, 2025 Go to all news list News

Eric Swanson ‘82 Inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame

Swanson co-invented optical coherence tomography, which had a transformative impact on ophthalmology and the detection of sight-impairing eye diseases.

Published date Wednesday, January 15, 2025 Go to all news list News

ECE’s Jeremy Gummeson Collaborates with Four Other UMass Inventors to Patent a Loose-fitting “Smart” Textile

The invented textile enables comfortable, loose-fitting garments with flexible electronic components that can measure respiration, heartbeat, posture, and more.

Published date Tuesday, November 26, 2024 Go to all news list News

UMass Named Partner Institution in $15 million NSF I-Corps Hub

The Hub will support researchers in Western Massachusetts as they translate their scientific discoveries into entrepreneurial ventures.

 

Published date Friday, November 1, 2024 Go to all news list News

Liang Competes as Finalist in Innovation Challenge

Tristan Liang, a senior Electrical Engineering major, is one of four finalists participating in tonight's Innovation Challenge at 5:00 in Old Chapel.

Published date Wednesday, May 1, 2024 Go to all news list News

ECE Alum Barun Kar Leads Auradine into the Future of Bitcoin

Kar is the co-founder and COO of Auradine, which promises to become a leader in web infrastructure solutions by “reimagining blockchain, A.I., and security.”

Published date Wednesday, March 6, 2024 Go to all news list News

CEE’s Angelina Caggiano Wins the 2024 Traffic Control Device Student Challenge

The “GlowSafely” device, using motion-sensor technology and LED lights, enables drivers to spot cyclists and pedestrians in dark crosswalks and bike lanes.

Published date Wednesday, January 24, 2024 Go to all news list News

MIE Students Bring Innovative Musical Shoe Concept to Life

For their senior capstone design project, a team of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering students brought an innovative musical shoe concept to life. 

Published date Monday, January 8, 2024 Go to all news list News

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