AMHERST, Mass. - The University system ranked 14th among American universities with $19.7 million in licensing income in fiscal year 2003, according to a report by the Chronicle of Higher Education using information from an Association of University Technology Managers survey.

AMHERST, Mass. – Historians and researchers searching through handwritten documents, such as the 140,000 pages that make up George Washington’s personal papers in the Library of Congress, now have a new powerful tool to aid their work – a first-of-its kind manuscript retrieval system developed at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The search tool has been developed by the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval in the computer science department at UMass Amherst.

AMHERST, Mass. – Sarina Ergas and David Reckhow, professors of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, have developed a set of customized methods for treating some of the most polluted water in the country – spent dyebath from textile mills. The processes are seen as environmentally friendly practices that can pay big dividends for companies that use them.

AMHERST, Mass. - A group of researchers led by Jane Kent-Braun, professor of exercise science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has received a five-year, $617,902 career award grant from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Aging, to study skeletal muscle function in older adults. The grant is designed to complement and expand a study currently under way by Kent-Braun and her colleagues on how aging affects muscles‚ ability to resist fatigue.