Feature Stories

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
Four people in field standing in front of solar grid

Toward a Smarter, Greener Grid

Regional partnership pairs science with street smarts to meet energy goals
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
Thomas Herndon with Stephen Colbert

What's In A Spreadsheet?

Grad student Thomas Herndon exposes data flaws in a seminal theory of economics
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Growing Life Sciences

State funding supports unprecedented research on campus and in region

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