The Graduate Dean invites all graduate faculty to attend the final oral examinations for the doctoral candidates. All exams will be held via video conferencing. Contact the department for online meeting information.
Final oral examinations for the doctoral candidates are...
Certain methods of decontaminating medical face masks for repeated use during the COVID-19 pandemic appear to damage the masks’ integrity and protective function, according to research by a University of Massachusetts environmental health scientist.
A team of climate scientists and geologists including Robert DeConto at UMass Amherst recently received a five-year, $7 million grant from the National Science Foundation to drill through the Greenland Ice Sheet and into the bedrock below, where they will be able to evaluate how long it has been since the last ice sheet retreated from the continent.
John Organ, adjunct associate professor in the department of environmental conservation and retired chief of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Program, has been selected as the recipient of this year’s Aldo Leopold Memorial Award from The Wildlife Society.
Director of international student and scholar services Kenneth Reade was recently appointed to serve on the Government Regulatory Affairs Committee of the New England region of NAFSA: Association of International Educators.
Award-winning facial recognition expert professor Erik Learned-Miller will offer a one-hour zoom Q&A webinar at 4 p.m. on Wed., July 15, where he will explore face recognition research and discuss a new proposed solution for regulating the young technology that is prone to errors and misuse. The event is free and open to the public.
USDA’s Natural Resource Conservation Service has awarded a two-year, $300,000 grant to an interdisciplinary group of researchers from UMass Amherst to develop tools to estimate the mass of carbon stored in salt marshes.
The UMass Amherst Department of Food Science has been awarded a five-year, $482,549 grant to fund an experiential learning program for undergraduates, including independent research opportunities with faculty mentors and paid summer internships with industrial partners in the greater Boston area.
