During the month of March, six members of the UMass Amherst community were featured as part of the “Influential Women Series” on social media. Learn more about these women who are revolutionizing their fields.

The provost, in coordination with the vice chancellor for research and engagement and the deans, is offering Interdisciplinary Research Grants totaling up to $600,000 to support interdisciplinary activities at UMass Amherst.

A team of astronomers, including assistant professor Kate Whitaker, recently published research in the journal Nature that many popular publications have said “breaks the universe.”

The Institute for Applied Life Sciences (IALS) is now accepting Letters of Intent for the 2023 Manning/IALS Innovation Seed Grant program.

On Thursday, March 23, F. Peter Schloerb, professor in the Department of Astronomy, College of Natural Sciences, will deliver the talk “UMass and the Large Millimeter Telescope,” as part of the UMass Amherst 2022-23 Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series.

Interracial relationships between friends, acquaintances and relatives were more than twice as likely to dissolve after the 2016 election than those of the same race.

Cam Anderson, Ph.D. candidate in environmental conservation, recently went to Washington D.C. to advocate in Congress for agricultural and climate policies that are based in peer-reviewed research.

The grant supports applied research, academic-and-civil society partnerships, and South-to-South knowledge exchange spaces addressing disinformation and digital hate.

Startup companies’ grounding-breaking health technologies launched from research at UMass Amherst won innovation grant funding at the Lever Western Massachusetts Health Tech Challenge hosted by the Institute for Applied Life Sciences on March 3. 

The UMass anthropologist co-authored the introduction and published a research article in the issue, “Authentic Possibilities: Uncommon Lessons from Slow Figs and Fast Fashion.”