AMHERST, Mass. – A new leadership academy for students of color and women who are interested in careers in technology and engineering was launched today by the Institute of Diversity Sciences (IDS)…
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AMHERST, Mass. – ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº Amherst biostatistician Nicholas Reich has been awarded grants from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes…
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AMHERST, Mass. – Kritika Pandey, a 2020 graduate of the ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº Amherst’s MFA for Poets and Writers, wins the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for her short story, “The Great…
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AMHERST, Mass. – As thousands of hopeful coronavirus shut-ins look forward to heading to Atlantic beaches for the July 4 holiday, ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº Amherst entomologist Rodger Gwiazdowski…
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UMass Medical School and ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº General Hospital are the first to safely treat two research participants with a synthetic microRNA, delivered into the spinal fluid, designed to silence a human…
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While the number of women in elected office in the U.S. has increased steadily in recent decades, they still represent a minority of officeholders. And, perhaps not incidentally, when they do run for…
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Michael Crowley, a graduate student at the School of Public Policy, has been selected for a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) fellowship program that fast tracks students for leadership roles…
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Thanks to some digital archeology work by Tony Sampas, the university’s archivist and special projects manager, a lost website about an overlooked group of Lowell textile mill workers has been…
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What if a U.S. Air Force pilot, using a computer chip implanted in her brain, could fly a plane remotely to bomb a target? In this scenario, is it ethical for the Air Force to implant the chip in…
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A beloved high school teacher changed Assoc. Prof. Mitchell-Keith Keith Mitchell ’s life. And now, as a teacher in the English page English Department , Mitchell affects the lives of countless…
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