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Deepak Ganesan & Tauhidur Rahman: Circadian rhythm, the 24-hour internal body clock

Computer science researchers Deepak Ganesan and Tauhidur Rahman at UMass Amherst, as part of a multi-institution team, have received a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to explore how...

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UMass Amherst Researchers Unfold Secret Stability of Bendy Straws

Collapsible dog bowls, bendable medical tubes and drinking straws all seem to work on a common principle, snapping into a variety of mechanically stable and useful states. Despite the many applications for such “designer matter” structures, however, the fundamental mechanisms of how they work...

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UMass Amherst Selected as National Innovation Corps Site

The National Science Foundation has announced that it has selected the University of Massachusetts Amherst to be one of its national network of Innovation Corps Sites (I-Corps). The program is intended to increase research commercialization and campus startups while enriching existing innovation...

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Kenneth Carter

Scientists Make New ‘Green’ Electronic Polymer-Based Films with Protein Nanowires

 An interdisciplinary team of scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has produced a new class of electronic materials that may lead to a “green,” more sustainable future in biomedical and environmental sensing, say research leaders microbiologist Derek Lovley,  and polymer...

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Emrick Todd

UMass Amherst Chemists Publish ‘Breakthrough’ Article on RNA Sequencing

For years, researchers who make large quantities of RNA for biomedical and biotech studies have run into a problem where their RNA synthesis produces sequences longer than expected, known as “nontemplated additions,” says chemist Craig Martin, CBD, and Chemistry, an RNA polymerase expert with 30...

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Craig Martin

Scientists Make New ‘Green’ Electronic Polymer-Based Films with Protein Nanowires

An interdisciplinary team of scientists at UMass Amherst has produced a new class of electronic materials that may lead to a “green,” more sustainable future in biomedical and environmental sensing, say research leaders microbiologist Derek Lovley, M2M, and polymer scientist Todd Emrick, CBD....

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UMass Life Sciences Labratories Uses STBs to Reduce Energy Consumption

The Life Science Laboratories building at UMass Amherst was designed to foster excellence in research while reducing energy consumption. To prevent thermal bridging where 40 steel cantilevers penetrate the building envelope, Wilson Architects and Lim Consultants specified structural thermal...

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Professor Rebecca Spencer Featured in BBC

Rebecca Spencer, CPHM, psychological and brain sciences, says while it is known that deep sleep helps process memories and emotions, lighter sleep, such as naps for small children, can also have a soothing effect....

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UMass Amherst Researchers Plan to Develop Alternative Energy Source for Muscle

Ned Debold, M2M and Kinesiology, with Dhandapani Venkataraman, Chemistry, and Jianhan Chen, M2M and Chemistry are collaborating on a project to develop a compound to serve as an alternative energy source for skeletal and cardiac muscle during times of stress.

The work is supported by a...

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Ned Debold

Grant Helping Andrew Increase Research Opportunities for Community College Students

Trisha L. Andrew, CPHM and Chemistry, recently received a $2,500 L’Oréal USA Changing the Face of STEM grant to increase hands-on research opportunities for community college students.

Over the 2018-19 academic year, Andrew and her research group will train interns from Springfield...

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Strawberries Could Help Reduce Harmful Inflammation in Colon

Research conducted by Hang Xiao, Center for Bioactive Delivery and Food Science, finds that eating strawberries daily can help reduce the harmful effects of inflammatory bowel disease. The study found that eating as little as three-quarters of a cup of whole strawberries daily significantly...

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Professor Rebecca Spencer Featured on WGBY 57

Rebecca Spencer, M2M, Psychological and Brain Sciences was featured on WGBY's "Connecting Point," exploring the connection between sleep and memory.

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UMass Amherst Food Scientists Partner with ‘Real Pickles’ to Profile Microbes at a Fermented Vegetable Facility

University of Massachusetts Amherst food scientists have mapped and characterized microbial populations in a vegetable fermentation facility and report that its microbiome was distinct between production and fermentation areas and that the raw vegetables themselves – cabbages destined for...

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UMass Amherst Researchers Will Develop New ‘Smart Fabrics’ for Activity and Health Monitoring

The next generation of wearable activity sensors will not be strap-on devices that can be lost or forgotten, say researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, instead they may be threads or fabric patches sewn into shirts and pants to offer light, care-free, continuous monitoring of...

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UMass Amherst Scientists Make Polymers Containing Solid Nanoparticles

Two scientists at UMass Amherst are building a new class of environmentally friendly polymer materials (or polymer-based fluids) called complex coacervates that will contain solid nanoparticles. Supported by a three-year, $357,694 grant from the National Science Foundation, they also will...

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