NEWTON, Mass.&²Ô²ú²õ±è;– CoachUp, the nation’s leading private coaching provider, has relocated its headquarters to the innovation and collaboration space on the Mount Ida Campus of the ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº Amherst.
AMHERST, Mass. – Geochemist Isaac Larsen at the ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº Amherst has been granted a Fulbright U.S. Scholar award and will spend the coming spring semester at the University of Salzburg, Austria.
"Our current system of expiration dates isn't working," insists Isenberg sophomore Harsha Prakki, explaining that arbitrary sell-by dates can't take food storage and transport conditions into account. "People throw away way too much food."
"We Shall Overcome" featuring Damien Sneed brings the spoken works of Martin Luther King, Jr. together with a rich history of African-American music on Tuesday, Jan. 28 at 7:30 p.m. in the UMass Amherst Fine Arts Center Concert Hall.
Shawn Shimpach, associate professor of communication and director of the ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº Multicultural Film Festival, has edited a new collection of television studies scholarship, "The Routledge Companion to Global Television." The volume is now available in hardback and e-book versions.
Scott Jackson, extension associate professor in the department of environmental conservation and Charlie Schweik, professor at the School of Public Policy and the department of environmental conservation, have received a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for a project that uses unmanned aerial systems (UAS) to develop methods to assess the ecological integrity of ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº salt marshes.
Physical Plant Landscape and Construction Services staff have been working with Michael Smith, program director with the UMass Transportation Center, on introducing the use of salt brine as a roadways anti-icing agent. Smith gave multiple training workshops to the staff as the brine pilot program was set up and the correct equipment was acquired.
Out of the commission for the past year and a half for a dramatic renovation, restoration and expansion, the university's original academic building, Coburn Hall, is reopening its doors to students on South Campus for the start of the spring 2020 semester.
BOSTON – Online programs at the ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº received high marks again in this year’s Best Online Programs rankings by U.S. ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº & World Report.
Two UMass programs ranked within the top 30 in the Best Online Bachelor’s Programs category, with UMass Amherst at No. 23, and UMass Lowell at No. 29. Amherst and Lowell were also the top two online bachelor’s programs in New England for the second consecutive year. In the same category, UMass Dartmouth ranked No. 113, rising ten spots over last year’s rankings, and UMass Boston ranked No. 93.
New research by Dorothy P. Schafer, PhD, reveals the molecular process in which synaptic connections in the brain are damaged in multiple sclerosis and how this contributes to neurodegenerative symptoms. The paper, published in , also shows how gene therapy may be used to preserve neural circuits and protect against vision loss in the disease.