Academics
UMass iCons Program Expands to Propel Next-Gen Innovation
iCons is expanding its experiential learning program, which allows students across campus to work in interdisciplinary teams to address real-world problems.
UMass Extension Debuts Pollinator Steward Certificate Program
The Pollinator Steward Certificate Program is a 10-hour course comprised of 30 lectures featuring 14 instructors.
Student Farming Enterprise Receives $15K Grant from State
The Student Farming Enterprise received $15,500 for the UMass Agricultural Learning Center.
New MA Bill to Support Expansion of CNS's Food Science Program
A flagship provision of the bill will strengthen the Commonwealth's "Life Sciences Initiative."
UMass Team Awarded $5.5M to Accelerate Research Translation Efforts of Campus Researchers
The team won an Accelerating Research Translation (ART) award from the U.S. National Science Foundation.
Mathematics and Statistics' Panos Kevrekidis Elected to European Academy of Sciences and Arts for Work on Nonlinear Waves
UMass Amherst’s Panos Kevrekidis, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, was recently elected to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Hammer Time: how Students, Faculty, Local Businesses and Holyoke’s Community Development Corporation are Teaming up to Fight the Housing Crisis
The DesignBuild class seeks to bridge this gap between the builders and designers with a two-semester sequence.
CNS Career Center and Project Onramp Drive Paid Internship Opportunities for UMass Pell Grant Recipients
Opportunities to help all students combine their in-class academics with the real world to give them career experience to pursue their next step for careers
U.S. Census Bureau Recruits UMass Icons Program Students to work on Equitable Access to Electrical Power
Students from UMass Amherst’s Integrated Concentration in STEM (iCons) Program were recruited by the U.S. Census Bureau’s The Opportunity Project (TOP)
Stockbridge Welcomes New Faculty in Biogeochemistry
Biogeochemistry sounds like the hardest triple-major to which one could be subjected. But to Hannah Naughton it’s the only logical way to account for how envir
Stockbridge Director Named a Distinguished Professor by University
The University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees conferred the title of Distinguished Professor on Stockbridge Director and Professor Baoshan Xing.
Institute of Diversity Sciences Announces 2023-24 Faculty and Student Sloan Fellows
The Sloan Student Fellows Program is a research-mentoring program welcoming Black, Latine/Hispanic and Indigenous (BLI) undergraduate students at UMass Amherst