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News from the UMass Amherst College of Natural Sciences

The 2025 CNS Alumni Awards

Recipients of the 2025 CNS Alumni Awards
Community
November 17, 2025

Matthew Tirrell PhD '77, Derrick Maxwell BS '14, and Ahmed A. H. Siddig PhD ’15 have been named the recipients of this year's awards.

November 17, 2025

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Agroecologist Joshua Arnold to Join International Team Studying Urban Future of Food

Careers
March 2, 2026

The CIFAR Arrell Future of Food Initiative is a multi-year effort to address mounting pressures on the global food system.

March 2, 2026

Updated Climate Action Tool Curates Best Practices for the Environmentally Motivated

Community
February 19, 2026

Focused on the northeastern US, the tool is a library curated by scientific experts in the world of climate change.

February 19, 2026

USDA Awards CNS Food Scientist Lili He $800K Grant to Advance ‘Closer to Zero’ Food Safety Goals

Careers
February 18, 2026

The FDA and USDA’s Closer to Zero (C2Z) initiative is a national effort to reduce toxic elements in foods eaten by babies and young children.

February 18, 2026

CNS Physicist Andrea Thamm Recognized with Sloan Research Fellowship

Careers
February 17, 2026

Thamm's research has increasingly looked to a theoretical kind of black hole called a “primordial black hole.”

February 17, 2026

CNS-led International Team May Have Just Found One of the Missing Links in Galaxy Evolution

Research
February 17, 2026

This research suggests that star formation may have occurred earlier in the universe’s evolution than previously thought.

February 17, 2026

CNS Researchers Explore Wild Physics That Keeps the Body’s Electrical System Flowing Smoothly

Research
February 10, 2026

This research demonstrates that the soft, hydrophobic gate regulating the electrical, ionic flows in the BK channels cannot absolutely stop the flow of ions.

February 10, 2026

Peggi L. Clouston and Alexander C. Schreyer Co-Author Definitive Guide on Mass Timber

Careers
February 5, 2026

This book arrives at a critical time as the architecture, engineering, and construction industry increasingly turns to sustainable wood products.

February 5, 2026

Physicists at CNS Suggest That We Just Found Traces of an Exploding Black Hole

Research
February 3, 2026

The team not only accounts for an otherwise impossible neutrino, but shows that the elementary particle could reveal the fundamental nature of the universe.

February 3, 2026

Chancellor Reyes and Dean Fox Visit the Arcaro Lab

Community
February 2, 2026

The visit underscored the importance of innovative, translational research happening at UMass Amherst.

February 2, 2026

Eco PhD Candidate Maina Handmaker Conducts Research to Protect Migratory Shorebirds

Careers
January 22, 2026

Together with a network of collaborators all around the hemisphere, Handmaker is studying the migratory behavior of the whimbrel.

January 22, 2026

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