The Neuro-Learning and Performance Lab in the department of psychological and brain sciences is seeking children and adolescents ages 10-17 to participate in a study researching brain development and decision-making processes.
Participants will use games to choose between options of winning money...
The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has elected Thomas P. Russell, Silvio O. Conte Distinguished Professor of polymer science and engineering, to the rank of NAI Fellow. The NAI recognized Russell for demonstrating “a highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating...
In time for holiday gift-giving, UMass Press is offering 30 percent off all paperbacks for faculty, staff and students through Jan. 1. Purchasers must use the promo code S719 at the press’s website or call 1-800-537-5487.
Teachers around the world are benefiting from open educational resources (OER) developed by students in two courses taught by Torrey Trust, assistant professor in the department of teacher education and curriculum studies in the College of Education.
Open educational resources are in the public...
Learn how to get out of the lab and into the market by attending the I-Corps @ UMass Kick-off on Monday, Dec. 17 at 4 p.m. in A110/111 Conte Polymer Research Center.
I-Corps @ UMass is the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Innovation Corps Site on campus. NSF funds I-Corps sites to nurture...
Erinn E. Knyt, associate professor of music history, has been awarded the American Musicological Society’s (AMS) Teaching Award for her article “Teaching Music History to Graduate Students.” The award was announced last month at the society’s annual meeting in San Antonio,...
Assistant professor of music history Emiliano Ricciardi recently received international recognition for the Tasso in Music Project, a National Endowment for the Humanities-funded digital edition of the early modern musical settings of poetry by Torquato Tasso. Ricciardi is director of the Tasso in...
Eight students from across campus have received the UMass Amherst Rising Researcher Award in recognition of their demonstrated leadership and impact in their chosen field of study.
Learn more about these Rising Researchers here.
Katherine Boyer, associate professor of kinesiology, and assistant professor Sunghoon “Ivan” Lee of the College of Information and Computing Sciences recently received a National Institutes of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering Trailblazer Award to support their collaboration in...
Researchers in the kinesiology department are seeking both young and older volunteers for a study investigating age-related differences in muscle fatigue.
Participants must:
be 23-40 or 65-80 years old
have no diagnosed diseases
be a non-smoker
not be pregnant
not...
