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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced that Ph.D. student Zachary Marc Fink and polymer scientist Thomas Russell’s lab has been selected to receive its Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) award. It will support his research project, “Imaging Nanoparticle Jamming at Liquid: Liquid Interfaces by Real-Time, In-Situ TEM.”

DOE says the award was given in recognition of Fink’s “outstanding academic accomplishments,” the merit of his research proposal, and his potential to make important contributions to the mission of the DOE Office of Science. 

A team led by director of the Gloucester Marine Station Adrian Jordaan and including ecologists Michelle Staudinger and Allison Roy of the U.S. Geological Survey recently received support for their study of migrating alewife and blueback herring in freshwater, river and estuary environments.

Professors Emery Berger, Prashant Shenoy and Ramesh Sitaraman of the College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) have been named Fellow by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world's largest educational and scientific computing society.

UMass Boston’s  (ICI) has named , MS, CRC its new director. Thomas has worked for ICI for more than 30 years, most recently serving as interim director.

“I am honored to have the opportunity to lead ICI,” Thomas said. “This is an amazing organization, and I look forward to working with my colleagues and our many partners to continue to advance our mission of inclusion.”

UMass Lowell has once again been recognized for its comprehensive sustainability efforts across campus, this time with a 2019 Leading by Example award from the commonwealth of �鶹��Ƶ. 

The  held on Friday, Dec. 6, raised more than $1.3 million to help support the clinical care, education and biomedical research missions of UMass Medical School and UMass Memorial Medical Center. This is the fourth consecutive year that fundraising has exceeded $1 million.

Sally C. Kent, PhD, associate professor of medicine in the Diabetes Center of Excellence, has been named the George F. and Sybil H. Fuller Foundation Term Chair in Diabetes. Dr. Kent studies autoimmune response in type 1 diabetes. Her lab is credited with uncovering new information on how autoreactive T cells target beta cells in islets, a breakthrough that will contribute to the design of therapies for people with type 1 diabetes.

An editorial in the journal  by UMass Medical School public health experts calls for legislators and policymakers to take bold action on gun control, similar to the recent ban in �鶹��Ƶ on vaping products in response to lung illnesses in vaping device and e-cigarette users.

AMHERST, Mass. – Imagine the impact on first-year college student-athletes in highly competitive programs if you could teach them resilience – if they learned skills to cope with high expectations, challenging academic courses, rigorous training and physical injuries, homesickness and even the stressors of life beyond college.

Last month, UMass Boston Distinguished Professor of Biology Kamal Bawa received the UNESCO Sultan Qaboos Prize for Environmental Conservation on behalf of the research institute he founded in India twenty years ago. The (ATREE) is located in Bangalore and is now ranked among the world’s top 20 environmental think tanks.