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Innovation

Spring 2024

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Make

Green looks good on you

Making more sustainable fashion choices

Spring 2024

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Connections

Class Notes and more

Spring 2024

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Post

When did woke become a four-letter word?

Tracking the evolving meaning of a word

Spring 2024

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It’s Electric

Summoning endless power—from thin air

Spring 2024

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

Aging in the Age of AI

Can machine learning keep us healthy and at home?

Spring 2024

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Watch

The Mighty Muon

How a tiny particle and a giant magnetic donut are helping solve the mysteries of the universe

Spring 2024

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In Memoriam

Honoring a force behind an American storytelling renaissance, and more

Spring 2024

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Accomplished

Forecasting the next outbreak
Deflating inflation

Spring 2024

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Around the Pond

After affirmative action—and more

Extra Credit

A flock of birds in flight, silhouetted against a pink and blue sky

Who’s flying through your neighborhood?

Citizen science, machine learning predict bird migration

Fall 2023

Colorful mural of a man with an afro.

In Memoriam

Honoring a professor, activist, and artist who fought for civil rights, a hard-working Boston Globe journalist, and more

Fall 2023

Seven amphibian species in a circle around a grayed-out microscopic image of a fungal cell.

Wow

Actin Up

Researchers at UMass are racing to stop widespread amphibian extinction