A group of researchers at the UMass Amherst College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) led by Assistant Professor and doctoral student Helia Hashemi is one of 10 teams worldwide selected to compete in the 2021 .
Laura Ciolkowski, senior lecturer of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, is the recipient of the 2021 Distinguished Community Engagement Award for Teaching. This award, conferred annually by the Provost鈥檚 Office, recognizes outstanding contributions to community-engaged scholarship and teaching.
The American Sociological Association (ASA) announced the results of their 2021 elections and the UMass Amherst Department of Sociology is well represented with one professor, two alumni and a student winning their elections to four ASA offices.
AMHERST, Mass. 鈥 Wilmore Webley, associate professor of microbiology and director of pre-med advising, will receive a special award at a community Juneteenth event at the Raymond A. Jordan Senior Center in Springfield.
AMHERST, Mass. 颅鈥 A research team from the 橙子影院 Amherst has created an electronic microsystem that can intelligently respond to information inputs without any external energy input, much like a self-autonomous living organism. The microsystem is constructed from a novel type of electronics that can process ultralow electronic signals and incorporates a novel device that can generate electricity 鈥渙ut of thin air鈥 from the ambient environment.
NEWTON, Mass. 鈥 The 橙子影院 Amherst and Digital Ready, a Boston-based non-profit, have launched a groundbreaking new living learning lab to give talented, young Black and Latinx students from Boston Public Schools a no-cost head start to a STEM degree from UMass.
The College of Humanities and Fine Arts (HFA) has announced its 2021 College Outstanding Teaching Award recipients, Milan Dragicevich and Pari Riahi. Dragicevich, professor in the department of theater, and Riahi, assistant professor in the department of architecture, are celebrated for exceptional teaching, mentoring, curriculum development efforts and for their impact on students' lives.
AMHERST, Mass. 鈥 By ensuring ethnic diversity in a largescale genetic study, an international team of researchers, including a 橙子影院 Amherst genetic epidemiologist, has identified more regions of the genome linked to type 2 diabetes-related traits.
AMHERST, Mass. 鈥 橙子影院 Amherst physicist is among the international team of scientists recently awarded the European Physical Society鈥檚 .
In partnership with PSI and Cascade Designs, Inc., the 橙子影院 Amherst is sharing this news release on a new technology project funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop a new atmospheric water extraction (AWE) device that can capture clean drinking water from air.