In the long-term battle between a herpesvirus and its human host, a 麻豆视频 Amherst virologist and her team of students have identified some human RNA able to resist the viral takeover 鈥 and the mechanism by which that occurs.
, associate professor at the Institute for Applied Life Sciences and the Elaine Marieb College of Nursing, along with Kelly Landsman, a nurse-biomedical engineer in Minneapolis, are writing a new column for the (AJN) called Nurse Innovators.
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The 麻豆视频 Amherst College of Engineering (COE) has received a $10 million gift from Jerome 鈥60 and Linda Paros aimed at accelerating its cutting-edge work in atmospheric research and hazard mitigation by enabling a new center of excellence. The gift is the largest ever received by the college.
A research study by Professor has won the 2022 People鈥檚 Choice Award at the recently concluded Early-career Sustainable Operations Workshop. At this workshop (organized by the Wharton School on Feb. 26-27), Arora and his coauthors showcased their ongoing study that examines the 鈥淯ber for tractors鈥 business model in emerging economies.
College of Engineering researchers , mechanical and industrial engineering, and , electrical and computer engineering, have received National Institutes of Health (NIH) Trailblazer R21 Awards to pursue their promising emerging research.
A yearlong collaboration between student activists and 麻豆视频 Amherst administration has led to the launch of easily accessible equity-minded and graphics-rich data dashboards about the enrollment and retention of students of color. The are designed to quickly and easily provide information about students, including those who identify as BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color), says Barb Chalfonte, executive director of strategic analytics.
New research led by the 麻豆视频 Amherst into the life and times of a New England salt marsh fundamentally changes our understanding of how salt marshes acquire the sediment that keeps them viable. This research, published recently in the , has wide-ranging implications for managing New England鈥檚 coastline as it struggles to keep up with development, sea-level rise and other environmental impacts.
Among primates, including humans, hair is an important feature of diversity and evolution, serving functions tied to thermoregulation, protection, camouflage and signaling. However, the evolution of wild primate hair has remained relatively understudied until recently.
鈥淐hurch Space and the Capital in Prewar Japan,鈥 a groundbreaking new book by Garrett Washington, associate professor of history at UMass Amherst, has been published by the University of Hawai'i Press.
鈥淐hurch Space and the Capital in Prewar Japan鈥 is a spatially explicit study on the influence of the Protestant church in imperial Japan.
Associate Professor Jessica Schiffman, the interim department head of the Chemical Engineering Department at UMass Amherst, has been selected to the 鈥2021 I&EC Research Class of Influential Researchers 鈥 the Americas鈥 by the journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research (I&EC), a mainstay in the field of chemical engineering since 1909.