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AMHERST, Mass. – Urgent research at the ����ӰԺ Amherst is investigating whether health care providers can safely reuse protective face masks, which could slow the Covid-19 pandemic and ease a critical equipment shortage endangering medical workers and patients worldwide.

Testing for COVID-19, more commonly known as the coronavirus, is critical given the current global pandemic.

 offers a clear, steady voice for uncertain times.

As associate dean of student affairs for health and wellness, Renault-Caragianes’ primary responsibility is overseeing the campus , which brings together counseling services, disability services, health services and health education and promotion. 

Music may have the power to soothe, but for more than a week, those who teach it have been scrambling to adjust to the new reality of COVID-19 and online instruction.

While adapting his classes as online lessons, Prof.  decided to weave in some normalcy and walked to South Campus, camera in hand.

As public schools across the country began closing to prevent the rapid spread of COVID-19, Clinical Prof. of Education  watched as teachers, education companies and nonprofits posted educational resources online.

After some hunting, you find a metered parking space in downtown Lowell. But when you go to drop a few quarters in the nearest payment kiosk, the machine doesn’t work. Should you find another kiosk? Should you leave a note on your dashboard and hope you don’t get a ticket? 

It can be a familiar dilemma for anyone who uses Lowell’s solar-powered parking kiosks, which were installed in 176 locations throughout the city in 2012 but have proven less than reliable in recent years.

AMHERST, Mass. – When cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar was shot dead in 1993, the four hippos he brought to his private zoo in Colombia were left behind in a pond on his ranch. Since then, their numbers have grown to an estimated 80-100, and the giant herbivores have made their way into the country’s rivers. Scientists and the public alike have viewed Escobar’s hippos as invasive pests that by no rights should run wild on the South American continent.

AMHERST, Mass. – In an effort to combat a major source of serious bacterial infections, chemical engineers Jessica Schiffman and Lauren B. Andrews at the ����ӰԺ Amherst are studying how bacteria attach themselves to polymer materials used in biomedical devices such as catheters, implants, wound dressings and contact lenses. The goal is to help prevent infections by developing new biofouling resistant materials.

AMHERST, Mass. – A slender little fish called the sand lance plays a big role as “a quintessential forage fish” for puffins, terns and other seabirds, humpback whales and other marine mammals, and even bigger fish such as Atlantic sturgeon, cod and bluefin tuna in the Gulf of Maine and northwest Atlantic Ocean. But scientists say right now they know far too little about its biology and populations to inform “relevant management, climate adaptation and conservation efforts.”

Music can emerge from some unusual places.  knows that sometimes, it just needs to be found and pieced together.

Johnson-Green, an assistant professor of , recently found herself and a group of fifth- and sixth-grade students from Lowell’s Stoklosa Middle School as the center of attention at the annual district science fair at Lowell High School.