Computer science researchers Alexandra Meliou and Yuriy Brun at UMass Amherst have received a four-year, $1.05 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study how software systems can exhibit bias and how software engineers can develop fairer, more equitable systems.
Researchers in the department of kinesiology at UMass Amherst are seeking individuals between the ages of 61 and 85 to participate in a study to measure walking steps during treadmill exercise and during activities you perform in daily life.
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...
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...
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...
