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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

Fall 2023

Natalie Lewis seated in front of a white brick wall looking to her left.

Connections

Class Notes and more

Fall 2023

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

Wow

Ice Cream of the Crop

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

Fall 2023

Simple sketch of scissors cutting a large red ribbon.

Glimpse

Around the Pond

Grand Openings—and more

Fall 2023

Person in a white beekeeper suit stands in a field of sunflowers

Seen

How sunflowers are saving the bees

Spring 2023

Two hand-drawn faces and overlapping speech bubbles.

Mind the Gap

Finding a way through social division

Spring 2023

A person with an eye mask on their face.

Glimpse

Form, meet function

Technology you can wear

Extra Credit

Flasks containing pink liquid on a lab table surrounded by students in lab coats and safety goggles

Eureka—They’ve Got It!

Encouraging Girls in STEM for a Decade

Extra Credit

Artistic recreation of the dinosaur Podokesaurus holyokensis

Glimpse

Our land before time

Professor Emerita Margery Coombs on the new state dinosaur

Fall 2021

Young kinda baboon laying in tree

Watch

Field work, life’s work

The story of one alum’s innovative research and impact