A new report from UMass Amherst’s Clean Energy Extension, released on July 8, sees significant potential to accelerate Massachusetts’s 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.
A UMass Amherst environmental epidemiologist studying the presence of PFAS compounds in new mothers and their babies found that women with gestational diabetes had a “significantly higher” rate of transferring the synthetic chemicals to their fetus.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently awarded Luis A. Valdez, assistant professor of community health education in the department of health promotion and policy, a two-year, $101,090 Administrative Supplement to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research award.
Rob Marcotte, a doctoral student in the department of kinesiology, received the “Best Student Oral Presentation” award at the 2019 International Conference on Ambulatory Monitoring of Physical Activity and Movement, held June 26-28, 2019 in Maastricht, The Netherlands.
The Graduate Dean invites all graduate faculty to attend the final oral examinations for the doctoral candidates scheduled as follows:
Vinh Nguyen, Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Monday, July 22, 10:00 a.m., 118 Kellogg Room, ELAB II Building. Dissertation: “Predictive Simulation of...
A UMass Amherst professor is playing an important role in advancing the idea that cultural heritage offers immense and virtually untapped potential to drive climate action and support ethical and equitable transitions by communities towards low carbon, climate resilient development pathways. Realizing that potential, however, requires both better recognition of the cultural dimensions of climate change and adjusting the aims and methodologies of heritage practice.
Anna Nagurney, the John F. Smith Memorial Professor of Operations Management at the Isenberg School of Management, is the recipient of the 2019 Constantin Caratheodory Prize, awarded by the International Society of Global Optimization.
Glacial geologist Julie Brigham-Grette, chair of geosciences and chair of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences’ Polar Research Board, was an invited speaker in late June at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change held at Bonn, Germany.
Accountable care organizations (ACOs), the health care delivery model created by the Affordable Care Act in an effort to reduce Medicare costs while improving coordination and quality of care, typically rely on primary care providers (PCPs) to steer the boat.
Growing rates of incarceration in the U.S. since the mid-1970s may be linked with a rise in drug-related mortality and may exacerbate the harmful health effects of economic hardship, according to an observational study involving 2,640 counties between 1983 and 2014, published in The Lancet Public Health journal.
