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The judges announced Gizzi, professor of poetry in the UMass MFA for Poets and Writers program, as the winner for his poetry collection, “Fierce Elegy,” at a Jan. 13 award ceremony in London.
Katherine Whitaker, professor of astronomy, has used data from the James Webb Space Telescope to effectively look 11 billion years into the past to see how and why globular clusters formed.
The latest breakthrough from a team of UMass Amherst and Ernest Pharmaceutical researchers uses aspirin in its targeted drug delivery therapy.
UMass Amherst researcher Erica Scharrer finds traditional coping strategies intensified teens’ distress.
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