Research
American Heart Association Selects BME’s Jingjing Gao for Career Development Award
Gao’s AHA research involves treatment for stroke victims using a precision platform to refine the performance of microglia, crucial immune cells in the brain.
ECE’s Paul Siqueira and Stephen Frasier Publish Overview of MIRSL in IEEE Microwave Magazine
Siqueira and Frasier serve as co-directors of ECE’s Microwave Remote Sensing Laboratory (MIRSL), focusing on remote sensing of the geophysical environment.
UMass Amherst Research Demonstrates New Technology for Shrinking Quantum Computers
Designing scalable, portable quantum hardware is an important step toward practical quantum computing and sending optical clocks to space.
UMass Amherst Receives nearly $6 Million NASA Grant to Understand the Fate of River Water in the Arctic Ocean
CEE’s Colin Gleason will lead a multi-institutional effort to improve models predicting the impacts of shrinking sea ice and increased freshwater and sediment.
UMass Engineers Develop Spatially Patterned Brain Organoids
MIE's Yubing Sun and his collaborators have developed a new method for modeling how the human brain organizes itself during early development.
ECE’s Fatima Anwar and Collaborators Obtain NSF Award to Support Reliable Testbed for Privacy Evaluations
The NSF project designs, develops, and sustains FLTest, an interdisciplinary testbed that automates accurate privacy evaluations in federated learning systems.
IEEE Spectrum Identifies Article by BME’s Dmitry Kireev as One of Its Most Popular Stories of 2025
Kireev’s story reports on temporary tattoos to help people track medical conditions such as cardiovascular, metabolic, immune-system, and other diseases.
CBE’s Sarah Perry Named the Gary R. Lapidus Faculty Fellow
The purpose of the Lapidus Faculty Fund is to provide ongoing support to a faculty member in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department.
MIE and Riccio CoE Reinforce Commitment to Expanding Manufacturing Capabilities with $1.58 Million Grant
Sunandita Sarker obtains a grant from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center to expand the Western Massachusetts capacity for nanoscale polymer manufacturing.
ECE’s Guangyu Xu Obtains Patent for a Cytokine Sensor to Monitor Acute Immune Responses
Xu has engineered a pioneering cytokine-sensing device to monitor potentially fatal immune responses more accurately and rapidly than the state of the art.
Innovative Bridge Repair Method Developed by UMass Amherst-Led Team Awarded as ‘Idea That Could Change the Future’
Work led by CEE's Simos Gerasimidis has been awarded a 2026 IDEAS Award by the American Institute of Steel Construction.
New UMass Amherst-Led Study Shows that Analog Hardware May Solve Internet of Things’ Speedbumps and Bottlenecks
Interconnected digital technology is becoming more energy-hungry as more devices come online; new research suggests old-school analog may be the solution.