Ideas & Innovations

Sketched elderly people appear like figurines on a white background; one is seated on a chair, looking at two cats.

Can machine learning keep us healthy and at home?

A smiling person wearing a light-colored vest.

The future of tech is wearable

A collection of devices showing the new UMass Magazine

Introducing the new UMass Magazine

Annika Berlin seated on the grass in front of the ocean

I spent years avoiding prosthetics—now they’re my job

Illustration of a person standing in front of a sunset with an hourglass in the corner

Surprising facts about your “body clock”

Illustrated version of headshots for Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto

UMass researchers awarded the “Nobel Prize of computing”

Toy robot standing on a light teal backdrop
Microscopic image of various colored gut bacteria

The fight against antibiotic-resistant bacteria gets a glow-up

Illustration of a small child standing on a wood floor

Sixty years of great reads from the UMass MFA for Poets and Writers