AMHERST, Mass. – Computational biophysicist Jianhan Chen at UMass Amherst recently received a four-year, $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study a newly recognized class of proteins with highly flexible three-dimensional (3D) structural properties, in particular some extra-floppy ones called intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs).
The graduate dean invites all graduate faculty to attend the final oral examinations for the doctoral candidates scheduled as follows:
Cara Chandler, Ph.D., College of Nursing, Tuesday, Aug. 21, 9:30 a.m., 112 Skinner. Dissertation: “Exploring How Nurse Beliefs and Attitudes Influence End...
During a two-day visit to campus this month, the executive director of the binational Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) gave a presentation to faculty of the Institute for Applied Life Sciences (IALS) explaining the mutual benefits of Indo-U.S. collaborations.
Rajiv Kumar Tayal,...
Two video productions initiated by University Relations to promote the flagship campus have received Telly Awards, which honor excellence in promotional and advertising video production across all screens.
“This is the Place,” a commercial that promotes UMass Amherst as a community...
The University of Massachusetts Amherst Graduate School has announced a major new initiative to enhance the recruitment, retention and success of outstanding students from historically underrepresented groups. The Spaulding-Smith STEM Fellowship Program will annually provide approximately 20 new graduate students with two full years of financial support while also offering an array of extracurricular programming to foster academic excellence, professional growth and social cohesion.
An interdisciplinary team led by sociologist Laurel Smith-Doerr, director of the Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR), is completing its final report for the National Science Foundation (NSF) following a series of three NSF-funded workshops on understanding emerging technologies, racial...
Jane Fountain, Distinguished Professor of political science and public policy and director of the National Center for Digital Government, has been named one of the 100 Most Influential People in Digital Government for 2018 by global policy platform Apolitical.
The list is the first of its kind...
Erik Learned-Miller, professor of computer science, recently received a four-year grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to support fundamental research that he says will be “especially open to creative approaches” in the quest to build “visual common...
Assistant professor of biostatistics Laura Balzer is the lead statistician on a cluster randomized trial designed to prevent and treat HIV and other health conditions in East African communities.
In a trial with more than 350,000 adults and children in rural Kenya and Uganda, the Sustainable...
A team of researchers including Yubing Sun of UMass Amherst has demonstrated that human pluripotent stem cells can be guided to become the precursors of the central nervous system, and that mechanical signals play a key role in this process. Sun and his colleagues outlined their findings in a recent paper published in the journal Nature Materials.
