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Feature Stories

Bees pollinating a yellow flower
Floral Transmitters
UMass Amherst researchers offer first systematic review and recommendations on disease transmission...
Network viisualization of political action committee contributions to candidates
Networked Decision-Making
Analyzing big data to understand complex social systems
Electronic tag for visually impaired on elevator sign
Underground PERCEPTion
Technology developed at UMass Amherst will help the visually impaired navigate Boston subway
Visual comparison of the shapes of bat skulls
Natural Selection
Researchers develop new tool to identify biodiversity targets
Akshaya Shanmugam and Jalil Johnson
A Meeting of Minds
Hluchyj Fellows combine nursing and engineering to improve clinical health care
Interdisciplinary Seminar in the Humanities and Fine Arts banner
Crossing Boundaries
The Interdisciplinary Studies Institute Takes Faculty on an 'Intellectual Adventure'
UMass Professor James Theroux and Students in the Classroom.
A Venture Story
A new center raises UMass Amherst's entrepreneurial capacity
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Anticipating Casino Gambling
UMass researchers study the impacts as Massachusetts gets ready to roll the dice
Family of polar bears on an iceberg, Greenland
Polar Test
Developing new biomarkers to measure stress in wild animals
Jessica Schiffman in her research laboratory
"Greener" Materials Science
Engineering natural polymers into biomaterials and water treatment technologies
Thomas Herndon with Stephen Colbert
What's In A Spreadsheet?
Grad student Thomas Herndon exposes data flaws in a seminal theory of economics
Men being driven in red car holding sign "49 Years Together! Finally married!"
Social Science Mecca
On everything from same-sex marriage to equal pay, UMass Amherst scholars are cited around the world