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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

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Artistic recreation of the dinosaur Podokesaurus holyokensis

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Our land before time

Professor Emerita Margery Coombs on the new state dinosaur

Fall 2021

Young kinda baboon laying in tree

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Field work, life’s work

The story of one alum’s innovative research and impact

Fall 2021

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

Hand sweet home

Working to understand—and protect—the hand microbiome

Fall 2021

Glassblower Sally Prasch applies a torch to a glass pipe for a work in progress

Seen

Glassblowing laboratory on campus offers equipment for scientific—and artistic innovations

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Students working on projects at Massenberg Summer STEM Institute

Diversifying the Face of STEM

Massenberg Summer STEM Institute opens doors

Spring 2020

Closeup of a water turbine

High Energy

Renewable energy innovators power up

Spring 2020

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Feet Fleet

Footwear researchers sprint ahead

Spring 2020

Gloved hands using pipette to fill test tube

A Virus Changes Everything

UMass community mobilizes

Fall 2019

zebra fish tank

New Innovation Pipeline Helps Bring Visions to Light

A new program underwrites research to curing the incurable—and so much more

Fall 2019

Toy robot standing

The Internet of (Robot) Things

A pioneer in robotics and AI forecasts the role of robots in our lives

Fall 2019

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Fruitful Facade

How to build a smart facade on buildings that cool in heat and warm in cold