Video: Generative Number Concepts in Children
As the idiom goes, numbers are as "easy as one-two-three." However, learning about them as a child is rarely that simple. It takes several years of formal and informal education to understand what number words mean, how numbers relate to one another, and the fact that they are infinite. This video showcases research from the Cognitive & Developmental Neuroscience Lab at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, which investigates how children come to understand that numbers are combinatorial and generative.
Research from Doctoral Student Gregory Pearson Suggests Daily Cycle in Immune System
New research led by Gregory Pearson reveals that the brain’s immune defenses operate on a daily schedule, a finding with potential implications for how we think about respiratory infections and their neurological consequences.
Aliah Zewail Co-authors New Research on Moral Stereotyping in Large Language Models
The paper “Moral Stereotyping in Large Language Models” in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences examines the confluence of artificial intelligence, large language models, morality, and cultural diversity.
Undergraduate Research Symposium
Undergraduate students had the opportunity to showcase their research accomplishments at our 12th annual undergraduate research symposium in Tobin Hall. Check out some of their outstanding research!
Senior Awards
We honor our outstanding seniors for their academic excellence, contributions to research, and scholarship.
Nilanjana Dasgupta’s ‘Change the Wallpaper’ Receives Outstanding Book of the Year Award
Using a science-driven approach to social change, Change the Wallpaper argues that small changes to the local cultures around us are far more effective in producing structural change than symbolic acts, bias awareness training, or relying solely on good intentions.
Awards and Honors
PBS Awards
Chiung Yi (Lisa) Chang and Kristin Howell, Keith Rayner Memorial Graduate Student Research Award
Yimeng Wang, James M. Royer Mentoring Award
Tayah Simpson, Dahlquist Scholarship
Diversity Awards
Qing Zhao, Graduate DEI Service Award
Victoria Vizzini, Wendy Helmer Memorial Award
Dr. Amanda Hamel, Faculty/Staff Ally to Graduate Students Award