Elana Carleton, a first-year student from Millis majoring in biochemistry and molecular biology, was recently awarded a $10,000 scholarship from the Alliantgroup Blue Heart Fund STEM Scholarship Program. She accepted the award during a ceremony Nov. 7 at company headquarters in Houston, Texas....
Jen Gallant, business consultant and former vice president of engagement at Valley Venture Mentors, has been named manager of the UMass Amherst Community Campaign (UMACC). She began her duties Nov. 13.
UMACC is an annual campaign that enables UMass Amherst faculty, staff and retirees to donate to...
The National Science Foundation has awarded computer scientist Subhransu Maji at UMass Amherst its Faculty Early Career Development award, a five-year, $545,586 grant to support his work in computer vision and artificial intelligence.
Detachment 370, the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFROTC) unit based on campus, was ranked No. 6 of 145 detachments in the nation for academic performance for the 2017-18 academic year.
The ranking places the detachment at No. 2 in GPA for the 37 detachments in the northeast region,...
A new poll of issues facing Massachusetts voters conducted by UMass Amherst finds that an inverse proportion of voters believe that Massachusetts and the nation are on the “right track.”
The department of music and dance will conclude its Research in Music lecture series for the semester on Wednesday, Dec. 5 with a talk by assistant professor Emiliano Ricciardi titled “Form in the Late Italian Madrigal: Torquato Tasso's Literary Theories and Their Musical Ramifications....
Twelve researchers at UMass Amherst have been recognized for being among the world’s most highly cited researchers in 2018. The analysis by Clarivate Analytics, owner of Web of Science, serves as the basis for regular listings of researchers whose citation records put them in the top 1 percent by citations for their field and year.
Dimitrios Maroudas, professor of chemical engineering at UMass Amherst, has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Maroudas serves as director of the materials engineering program in the College of Engineering.
Twenty-five undergraduate students have been selected from a pool of more than 100 applications to be 2019 UMass Women into Leadership (UWiL) fellows.
The fellows represent a variety of schools and colleges at UMass Amherst including the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, College of...
A new poll conducted by UMass Amherst found that a notable percentage of state voters believe both President Donald Trump’s rhetoric and mass media practices played a role in the recent spate of violent incidents across the nation, although a greater number placed responsibility on the president.
