UMass Amherst assistant professor of microbiology Mandy Muller In the long-term battle between a herpesvirus and its human host, a ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº Amherst virologist and her team of…
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A new report released by the UMass Amherst School of Public Policy (SPP) reveals some of the impacts that the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic had on ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº households. Led by UMass Amherst…
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Two UMass Amherst faculty members have recently been appointed to the Asian American and Pacific Islanders Commission (AAPIC), a statewide body whose purpose is to enhance opportunity for Asian…
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An international team of researchers, led by the ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº Amherst, recently announced in the journal Current Biology that an amoeba called Naegleria has evolved more distinct…
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The UMass Chan Medical School 2022 Diversity Campus Read concluded on Wednesday, Feb. 9, with author Harriet Washington presenting virtual talks about her book, Medical Apartheid , to an audience of…
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UMass Chan Medical School anatomist Yasmin Carter, PhD, has played a lead role in designing a new three-dimensional full female model on research publishing firm Elsevier’s Complete Anatomy app, the…
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Exercise Science alumna Caitlin Ciccone with Ryan Cochran-Siegle Exercise Science alumna Caitlin Ciccone is living her dream. It may not be the dream of her childhood, but she couldn’t be happier…
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Alumnus Paul Manning ’77 and his wife, Diane, have committed $3 million through their family foundation to expand the Manning Innovation Program at the ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº Amherst. The gift…, A Catalyst for Partnerships, IALS is the catalyst for industry and academic partnerships. The institute contributes to the creation of new ventures and products in collaboration with the Isenberg School of Management , the …
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College of Nursing & Health Sciences Associate Dean Dr. June Andrews Horowitz The first year of infancy is critical to a child’s cognitive and socioemotional development, according to Dr. June…, PPD adversely affects mother-child interaction and the child’s later development, The study of the infant-mother relationship and how that critical bond is affected by post-partum depression has been the research focus of Horowitz’s career. She writes that postpartum depression…, Grant will enable future development and testing of MommaConnect, The grant will enable Horowitz and the team to advance the development of the MommaConnect app prototype with expanded features, a technology partly developed at UMass Dartmouth by Horowitz in…
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New research led by the ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº Amherst definitively resolves a long-standing discrepancy in the geologic record that pitted studies of marine ice-sheet behavior against those…
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