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Featured Events
In the News
Christina Allingham and Matthew D. Moore Included on 40 Food Safety Professionals Under 40 List
This list reflects the achievements and creativity of up-and-coming food safety professionals from around the world.
Alice Cheung and Team Make Plant-breeding Discovery That Could Pave Way for New Crop Species
Cheung and her colleagues have made great strides in understanding how interspecific incompatibility (ISI) works.
CNS Physicist John F. Donoghue Wins J.J. Sakurai Prize for Work on Theoretical Particle Physics
This prize is "a testament to the caliber of [Donoghue's] research and a recognition of the excellence of theoretical particle and nuclear physics at UMass."
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