Amanda Baptiste athlete profile page Amanda Baptiste ’21 grew up in Taunton, ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº, a city rich in her Portuguese heritage. When she arrived at UMass Lowell four years ago to pursue a degree…
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Section of a piling attacked by shipworms in Belfast, Maine. Credit: Barry Goodell. AMHERST, Mass. – Humans have known for over two thousand years that shipworms, a worm-like mollusk, are responsible…
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AMHERST, Mass. – Researchers at the ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº Amherst recently discovered that the ability of agricultural grasses to withstand drought is directly related to the health of the…
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A Boston Globe story published July 2 features FutureSHORELINE, the work of Carolina Aragón, landscape architecture. FutureSHORELINE is a temporary sculpture, made of lobster traps, in Boston’s Fort…
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The Mapping Aspects of Psychotherapy in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (MAPDBT) research study is recruiting volunteers to participate in group therapy. The goal of the study is to compare how…
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Researchers in polymer science and engineering are used to working at the molecular level, but UMass Amherst professor Thomas P. Russell and his former UMass student and current postdoc Paul Kim are…
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The American Academy of Pediatrics has published Childhood Trauma & Resilience: A Practical Guide , written by UMass Medical School child trauma and treatment experts Heather Forkey, MD, and…
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An evidence-based wraparound service model that reduces barriers to care was shown to enhance drug treatment courts’ effectiveness in improving criminal justice and behavioral health outcomes among…
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Professor Daniel Obrist climbing a tree in the Harvard Forest Toxic mercury is being deposited in forests in much higher quantities than previously thought, posing a concern for the health and well-…, Understanding the Mercury Cycle, Obrist and his colleagues measured the uptake of gaseous mercury at Harvard Forest in Petersham, ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº, for almost 16 months. The site is a nearly 4,000-acre temperate deciduous forest where…, A Potent Neurotoxic Pollutant, Mercury Mercury is a highly toxic environmental pollutant that threatens fish, birds, mammals and humans. Vast amounts are released into the atmosphere each year by coal-burning power plants, as…, A High-achieving Undergraduate Researcher, The mercury study provided hands-on research opportunities for undergraduate Eric Roy Eric Roy , a senior majoring in meteorology and math. Undergraduate student researcher Eric Roy “One potential…, Multiple Biomes and Ecosystems, Obrist examines the soil on Plum Island in ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº, where he has an ongoing National Science Foundation project to investigate mercury cycling in salt marshes. Obrist, an expert in…
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Dr. Hong Liu, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UMass Dartmouth, in the lab with graduate students. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Dr. Hong Liu and Dr. Trina…
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