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At UMass Amherst’s annual hackathon, students team up to design, build, and test tech-driven solutions with real-world impact.

When senior Elijah Khasabo arrived at the Isenberg School of Management at UMass Amherst last semester as a transfer student, he already had something most business students only dream about: a fast-growing startup and a clear vision of what he wanted to build.

Three UMass Amherst alumni founded clean energy company florrent to improve electrical grid resilience with its innovative supercapacitor technology.

Computer science major Jason Huang Alexander ’27 is working to make artificial intelligence and large-scale algorithms work better for people in the real world.

At the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a lab by Sloan Siegrist, associate professor in the Department of Microbiology, specializes in researching the bacterium that causes tuberculosis—specifically, developing small molecules that target the cell surface for therapeutic purposes.

In recent years, smartwatches and other wearable technology have soared in popularity. These devices offer continuous health monitoring, tracking metrics ranging from daily step counts and physical exertion to heart rate, respiratory rate, and sleep duration. They can be invaluable tools for promoting personal health, whether keeping athletes (and those looking to get in shape) accountable or monitoring key vital signs in people with serious health conditions.