A team of electrical engineering students has won top honors from the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Airport Cooperative Research Program’s University Design Competition for Addressing Airport Needs. The winning design creates a virtual “geofence,” similar to an invisible...
Katie Dellorso, a doctoral candidate in the doctor of audiology program, was chosen in a nationwide competition as the recipient of a $10,000 scholarship by Alpaca Audiology.
Alpaca is a network that uses the collective purchasing power of its members to help audiologists purchase hearing aids at...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded the College of Nursing at UMass Amherst $870,000 to develop a program to train student nurses in screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment.
Vowing to preserve the high quality and upward trajectory of the University in the face of state budget cutbacks, the UMass Board of Trustees today approved an increase that would raise tuition by an average of $756 this year for in-state undergraduate students.
Campus visits and open forums have been scheduled for the four finalists for the new position of associate provost for student success.
The position emerged as a direct outgrowth of the chancellor’s vision and the UMass Amherst strategic planning process, which have both called for a strong...
UMass Amherst computer science graduate students Kyle Wray and Luis Pineda, with their professor Shlomo Zilberstein, today described a new approach to managing the challenge of transferring control between a human and an autonomous system, in a paper they presented at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence in New York City.
Thérèse Pasquale Maguire, 67, of Amherst, a retired administrator in residential academic programs, died July 7.
Raised in Jamaica Plain, she graduated from Trinity College in Washington, D.C., and earned a doctorate in comparative literature at UMass Amherst.
She joined the UMass...
A prospective study of caffeine and coffee intake and premenstrual syndrome among more than 3,600 women by epidemiologists at UMass Amherst found that caffeine intake is not associated with PMS, and current recommendations for women to reduce caffeine intake may not help prevent the development of PMS. Details appear in the current early online edition of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
“Today’s Supreme Court decision reaffirms the many steps we have taken at UMass Amherst to build a more diverse community focused on providing students from all backgrounds life-changing opportunities.”
Interdisciplinary course students received a Best Technical Design award at the U.S. Department of Energy 2016 Collegiate Wind Competition held May 24 in New Orleans.
