Geoscientist and lunar expert Don Wise’s pocket diary for July 16, 1969, records his impressions – “calm expectation,” and “not the intensity you might expect” –  among NASA scientists as they counted down the final 20 minutes before the Apollo 11 mission blasted off for the moon 50 years ago this week.

Linda Tropp, professor of social psychology, has been named the 2019 recipient of the Nevitt Sanford Award from the International Society of Political Psychology, in recognition of professional contributions to political psychology.

A new report from UMass Amherst’s Clean Energy Extension, released on July 8, sees significant potential to accelerate Massachusetts’ emerging energy and battery energy storage (BES) innovation ecosystem. The report attributes much of the potential to the connections between the Commonwealth’s academic and private sectors.