Researchers Explore Solutions for Managing Healthy Cranberry Crops
A UMass Amherst research team including Jill Fitzsimmons, resource economics, will receive $1.19 million to study solutions for managing cranberry fruit rot.
Churchill Finds Benefits, Risks in School-Based BMI Assessments
Brandyn Churchill, resource economics, has published new research on school-mandated Body Mass Index (BMI) assessments, finding both benefits and risks.
Creating Pathways for STEM Higher Education Leadership
Joya Misra, sociology and public policy, and Jessica Pearlman, ISSR, received a $1.04M EPA grant to research opportunities and challenges of STEM leadership.
Whipple Named ADVANCE Team Leader for Research
Kelsey Whipple, journalism, has been named a UMass ADVANCE Team Leader for Research. She is one of five new leadership team members in the program.
Churchill Publishes New Paper on Youth Sunscreen Use
Brandyn Churchill, resource economics, has written a new paper exploring how state laws on youth sunscreen usage have affected Google search results.
Sancha Medwinter Publishes New Book
Sancha Medwinter, sociology, has published her latest book "Ecologies of Inequity: How Disaster Response Reconstitutes Race and Class Inequality."
Sociology PhD Candidate Authors New Book
Jorge Daniel Vásquez, a PhD candidate in sociology, recently authored a new book exploring youth migration in the southern Ecuadorian Andes.
Ghosh on the Myth of Grain Shortages
Jayati Ghosh, economics, recently penned a counterpoint to the popular belief that a global wheat shortage resulted from the war in Ukraine.
Lenore Palladino Authors New Paper on Asset Management
Lenore Palladino, economics, public policy, and PERI, recently published a new paper, "Establishing a Public Option for Asset Management in the U.S."
Elizabeth Sharrow Authors New Book on Title IX
Elizabeth Sharrow, public policy and history, has written a new book "Equality Unfulfilled: How Title IX's Policy Design Undermines Change to College Sports."