Why in the World

Extra Credit
An illustration of a person sitting between a collage of speakers and roaring lions
Watch

Jeremy Geragotelis ’28PhD on teaching students to question sound and silence.

Spring 2024
A rough drawing of a purple eye
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Tracking the evolving meaning of a word

Fall 2023
Photo of a hand gripping a waffle ice cream cone with three different scoops, and rainbow sprinkles.
Wow

Herrell’s hosts creations from UMass food science ice cream flavor contest

Spring 2023
A person with an eye mask on their face.
Glimpse

Technology you can wear

Fall 2022
Three researchers taking measurements on a snowy plain.
Glimpse

Undergraduates get the opportunity of a lifetime

Spring 2022
A red and blue pop art style photo of a falcon.
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W. E. B. Du Bois Library is making conservation efforts to keep falcons off the endangered species list

Fall 2021
Illustration of hand, palm side up as for palmistry, with various sites magnified and showing brightly colored faux microbes and bacteria

Working to understand—and protect—the hand microbiome