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  • UMass Amherst Innovators: Peter Reinhart, Jun Yao, Trisha Andrew, and Derek Lovely.

    After Eureka

    UMass Scientists Turn Revolutionary Ideas Into Businesses

    Starting a business is terrifying, to be frank, said Morgan Baima '18PhD, just after incorporating the UMass startup company Soliyarn. Scary though it may seem, Baima and other UMass scientists... More
  • Close up of chip design on yellow diagnostic patch

    Improving Human Health

    Biomedical engineering blends disciplines for medical innovation

    "A biologist, a doctor, and an engineer walk into a room . . .” could be an opening line for UMass Amherst’s Biomedical Engineering program. Launched in 2017, it blends engineering, medicine,... More
  • UMass Amherst professor Thai Thayumanavan talks with students in his lab.

    Inspired by Nature

    New center taps natural processes for chemical innovation

    Sankaran “Thai” Thayumanavan has big plans for the $1.8 million National Science Foundation grant the campus has received to create a multi-university Center for Autonomous Chemistry. He and his... More
  • Picture of Artaic's mosaic tile installation at the Ritz Carlton Coconut Grove.

    Twenty-First Century Mosaics

    UMass experts improve manufacturing innovation for Massachusetts company

    Mechanical engineer Dr. Ted Acworth founded Artaic with a goal to revitalize the ancient mosaic art form. He was inspired by the beauty of the artwork but found the modern mosaic-making process to be... More

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