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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

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Glimpse

Play by Play

Sports Journalism students get hands-on experience—and class credit—broadcasting live UMass athletics events

Fall 2023

Blue and yellow shredded paper woven through Russian language lesson sheets.

Wow

Literary Device

UMass researchers using AI to translate books into 20+ languages

Spring 2023

A person with an eye mask on their face.

Glimpse

Form, meet function

Technology you can wear

Spring 2023

A smiling person in a t-shirt holds a pot full of compost towards the camera.

Watch

From Death to Life

Katrina Spade ’13MA reimagines burial practices

Extra Credit

Child laughing in harness while working with physical therapist

Robotics-based rehab

Dedicated alum leads the physical therapy industry in innovation

Fall 2022

Concrete forming triangular points.

Brutally Beautiful

UMass’s architectural backbone—reconsidered

Fall 2022

Person with hair net smiling next to a large metal tub.

Back to Work

Do we want to return to ‘normal’?

Fall 2022

A PVTA bus labeled “Electric Bus” is seen driving away, with illustrated lightning bolts around it.

Around the Pond

Running on renewables
Mapping ‘Black Presence’
Engineering a better world

Extra Credit

Cross-stitched image of flowers below image text: Bad character (I)

Needle In a Library Stack

The ‘unseen labor’ that helps us find the data we’re looking for

Extra Credit

Dancer in a lab doing an arabesque while wearing an oxygen monitoring mask

Dance Like There’s a Tomorrow

UMass researchers study the health benefits of dancing—at any level

Fall 2021

Farming students working to tend plants under solar panels

Smart farming takes root

How agricultural innovation is changing the future of farming