PEP Program Selects Taqi Raza and Jared Starr as Fellows
The Public Engagement Project (PEP) Program trains Fellows to communicate more effectively with U.S. and Commonwealth lawmakers, journalists, and the public.
Three Riccio College of Engineering Graduate Students Named 3MT Finalists
The 3MT competition challenges graduate students to present complex research clearly and concisely to a general audience.
Engineers Week 2026: Transform Your Future
Engineers Week is a national celebration of the vital contributions engineers make to our world.
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.
MIE PhD Student Faustina Sarfo Receives Awards from the Association of Energy Engineers
Faustina’s PhD research focuses on energy systems modeling for equitable and reliable electricity access.
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.
UMass Trustees Appoint CBE’s Jessica Schiffman to Armstrong-Siadat Endowed Professorship
The professorship was created “to establish and support research programs in the field of materials science and engineering.”
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.