A team of researchers headed by electrical and computer engineering Professors Qiangfei Xia and J. Joshua Yang at UMass Amherst, say they have found a way to use sophisticated memristor neural networks to achieve machine learning where the network continuously adapts and updates its knowledge as it receives more data.
Kinesiologist Mark Miller and colleagues at UMass Amherst are seeking men and women 65 to 75 years old for a study on the effects of different types of weight training on muscle function, and whether there is a sex-specific neuromuscular system response to the training.
Three projects proposed by faculty members from the School of Public Health and Health Sciences, College of Nursing and the College of Education have been awarded Public Service Endowment Grants (PSEG) from a special campus fund designed to boost outreach, extend the campus resources into the...
The Healthy Development Initiative, an urban research, education and outreach program led by UMass Amherst faculty, is hosting its third annual open house on Wednesday, June 27 from 3-5 p.m. at the UMass Center at Springfield.
After 12 years with UMass Amherst and a 42-year career in higher education, Joan Hopkins, associate athletic director for student-athlete development, will retire, effective Aug. 31.
Hopkins has served numerous administrative roles within the department, including associate athletic director for...
MaryAnn T. Chudzik, a retired maintainer in Residential Life, died June 8.
Born Sept. 8, 1943 in Amherst, she grew up on the family farm and graduated from Amherst Regional High School in 1961.
She graduated from the Cooley Dickinson Hospital School of Nursing as a registered nurse in 1964...
Ezra Markowitz, assistant professor of environmental conservation, has been elected president-elect of the Society for Environmental, Population and Conservation Psychology (SEPCP), Division 34 of the American Psychological Association.
SEPCP members “apply psychological knowledge and...
Paul Dubin, 77, of Northampton, a retired part-time research professor of chemistry, died May 23.
Born in New York City, he graduated from the Bronx High School of Science and City College of New York and received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University. In the early 1970s he was a post-doctoral...
There has long been a debate among biologists over whether the evolution of new traits requires new genes to evolve or whether they can arise simply from the recruitment of existing genetic pathways, says developmental biologist Craig Albertson at UMass Amherst.
The graduate dean invites all graduate faculty to attend the final oral examinations for the doctoral candidates scheduled as follows:
Supreeth Shastri, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tuesday, June 26, 10 a.m., 309 Knowles Engineering Building Conference room. Dissertation: “...
