CEE’s Guoping Zhang Secures $3-million NSF Grant to Produce Eco-friendly Cement (iCem)
This multidisciplinary research uses recycled carbon-dioxide-equivalent emissions and upcycled mining wastes to manufacture greener, next-generation cement.
CEE’s Efthymia Kostopoulou Wins Yet Two More Scholarships from the Boston and Rhode Island Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS)
Kostopoulou received an Ann Hershfang Graduate Scholarship and a Jannet Walker-Ford Leadership Legacy Scholarship from WTS chapters in Boston and Rhode Island.
UMass Amherst Engineers Create Bioelectronic Mesh Capable of Growing with Cardiac Tissues for Comprehensive Heart Monitoring
In a boon for medical researchers, new tool is the first that can measure both mechanical movement and electrical signal in vitro using a single sensor.
In the Fight Against Breast Cancer, UMass Amherst Researchers Identify Malignancy Hibernation as the Next Battleground
Chemical engineers at the university find less than 1% of studies examine the phenomenon.
Sam Wojda and Eleni Christofa Awarded the College Outstanding Teaching Award
The college presents its teaching awards once every spring semester, and each award consists of a $1,000 prize and a commemorative plaque.
UMass Amherst Researchers Join $26 Million Quantum Computing Effort to Build Internet of the Future
UMass is leading the core effort to design architectures and protocols for quantum networking for the National Science Foundation’s Center for Quantum Networks.
UMass Researchers Contribute to Science Paper on High-precision Computing with Low-precision Devices
The paper describes a revolutionary technical innovation that empowers low-precision analog devices to perform high-precision computing.
Researchers at UMass Amherst and Texas A&M Collaborate to Develop New Antibacterial Polymers That Kill “Superbugs”
The researchers have developed a new family of “cationic polymers” that kill “superbug” bacteria like MRSA and E. coli without inducing antibiotic resistance.
MIE’s Yossi Chait and ECE’s Christopher Hollot Serve on Research Team That Patents Trailblazing Dialysis Technology
The method delivers a remarkable 50-percent improvement in the precision of absolute blood-volume estimates.
National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Inducts ChE Alumna Cristina Urdaneta Thomas
NAE cited her "innovation, commercialization, and leadership in using polymeric materials for energy savings and traffic safety and to ensure worker wellbeing."