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Graduate programs in several science and social science disciplines at the �鶹��Ƶ Amherst rank among the best in the nation in fresh rankings featured in the 2022 edition of U.S. �鶹��Ƶ & World Report’s Best Graduate Schools, which was recently released.

Jonique Childs, assistant professor in the College of Education student development program, was awarded a 2020-21 Global Career Development Facilitator (GCDF) scholarship from the National Board for Certification Counselors (NBCC) Foundation, an affiliate of the National Board for Certification Counselors.

Aisha Murdaugh, consumer manager for disability services has been selected as the winner of the Susan M. Daniels Award for Disability Mentorship by the National Disability Mentoring Coalition and Partners for Youth with Disabilities.

AMHERST, Mass. – Three �鶹��Ƶ Amherst juniors in the Commonwealth Honors College have been awarded a prestigious Goldwater Scholarship from the 

AMHERST, Mass. – A team of polymer science and engineering researchers at the �鶹��Ƶ Amherst has demonstrated for the first time that the positions of tiny, flat, solid objects integrated in nanometrically thin membranes – resembling those of biological cells – can be controlled by mechanically varying the elastic forces in the membrane itself. This research milestone is a significant step toward the goal of creating ultrathin flexible materials that self-organize and respond immediately to mechanical force.

AMHERST, Mass. – The �鶹��Ƶ Amherst today announced that Kerri Thompson Tillett has been named associate vice chancellor for equal opportunity. Tillett will assume her duties on May 17, 2021.

An international team of astronomers, including �鶹��Ƶ Amherst professors  and , has just revealed a new view of the massive black hole at the center of a galaxy located 55 million light-years away, known as the M87 galaxy.

�鶹��Ƶ research continues to grow in Fiscal Year 2020 as the university positions for post-pandemic recovery

Faculty expertise and strategic planning position the university for continued research growth 

BOSTON – Despite the onset of the coronavirus, the �鶹��Ƶ conducted a record-breaking $687 million of research in Fiscal Year 2020, according to a report released at today’s meeting of the UMass Board of Trustees Committee on Academic and Student Affairs.

What do successful rock 'n’ roll bands have in common with hard-charging entrepreneurs who reach the top echelons of business? 

A willingness to fail, to regroup and to try again, said Greg Harris, president and CEO of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame who moderated a virtual event on music and entrepreneurship hosted by the UMass Lowell’s . It’s about adaptation, and developing the depth to withstand failure.

Last spring, after COVID-19 shut down the campus,  Ph.D. student  was feeling isolated. She had finished all of her classes and was starting the long, hard solo work of completing her dissertation.

“I was getting so frustrated just sitting in one room,” she says. “I also wanted to socialize.”