The critically acclaimed author and vice chair of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council will deliver a keynote address for Black History Month on Thursday, Feb. 29, at 5:30 p.m. in the Student Union Ballroom.
The symposium, which will take place from 3-5:30 p.m. in the Amherst Room of the Campus Center, will feature a panel discussion on energy justice at work, as well as talks and poster presentations by ELEVATE Fellows and other students working in energy transition research.
Building up coastal U.S. wetlands drowning under rising oceans remains a challenge, but scientists are one step closer to identifying solutions, thanks, in part, to the work of UMass Amherst postdoctoral researcher Erin Peck.
The paper by UMass Amherst engineer Shannon Roberts and others reveals the best way ride-share services can get users to use carpool features: focus on the ride.
UMass Amherst Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy and government leaders at the federal, state and local levels gathered at the Gloucester Marine Station to announce $400,000 in federal and state funding to support the station’s North Shore Blue Economy initiative and its operations.
UMass will engage with lower income households and neighborhoods in Holyoke to improve knowledge on drivers, barriers and environmental benefits of shifting to using electric sources of energy within households.
The Art Sustainability Activism series brings together students, faculty, staff, administrators, alumni and community members with scientists, musicians, writers, organizers and activists to address climate chaos and to inspire collective action.
The new iCons track in Food-Water-Climate will expand the impact of the program by connecting students to industries and jobs including sustainable food and farming, wastewater treatment and environmental conservation.
The university, on the list for eight consecutive years, moves up 10 spots to No. 18 on the list and is the largest university among the other New England private and public institutions in the top 20.