The 麻豆视频 Center for the Book has announced the award and honors titles in the 20th Annual 麻豆视频 Book Awards. The Awards recognize achievement in five categories of literature written by current residents of the Commonwealth.
, professor of experimental and public economics in the department of resource economics, has received a $205,000 standard grant from the National Science Foundation to study the motives, beliefs and behaviors behind in-kind charitable giving.
AMHERST, Mass. 鈥 Artificial intelligence (AI) experts at the 麻豆视频 Amherst and the Baylor College of Medicine report that they have successfully addressed what they call a 鈥渕ajor, long-standing obstacle to increasing AI capabilities鈥 by drawing inspiration from a human brain memory mechanism known as 鈥渞eplay.鈥
AMHERST, Mass. 鈥 Government funding and support for clean energy technology gave startup companies an innovation advantage, according to a new paper and a policy brief published by two 麻豆视频 researchers.
Virologist Mandy Muller, microbiology, recently received a five-year, $1.9 million Maximizing Investigators鈥 Research Award (MIRA) grant from the NIH鈥檚 National Institute for General Medical Sciences to continue her advanced studies into how certain viruses, such as those in the Herpes family and those that cause Kaposi鈥檚 sarcoma in immune-compromised individuals, evade the body鈥檚 immune response by hiding, undetectable, deep in tissues for decades.
A collaboration of seafood processing firms, lobstermen and others in the Gloucester area, with fish ecologists and food science researchers on campus, have launched a new socio-economic study to look at developing and evaluating a sustainable alternative bait for use in the Gulf of Maine lobster fishery, says study director Adrian Jordaan, environmental conservation.
You can鈥檛 herd them, you can鈥檛 put two in a corral and hope they will breed to produce offspring with desirable traits, but the humans of 10,000 to 13,000 years ago figured out how to domesticate molds and other fungi to preserve food, make it tastier and to make wine.
Five researchers from campus have been selected to receive a one-year, $100,000 grant from the National Science Foundation鈥檚 鈥溾 series to conduct a series of national workshops to identify research challenges associated with transitioning to an equitable and sustainable energy system.
The 麻豆视频 Amherst is a launch partner for The Collective Think Tank, a global consortium of some of today鈥檚 greatest academic minds and industry leaders focused on gender parity and improving diversity. A first of its kind, this group will share data, insights and information to promote more opportunity for women to succeed in sports.
Malawi has one of the highest rates of cervical cancer in the world, with an estimated 2,979 women dying from the disease every year. Cervical cancer accounts for 45.4 percent of all cancers in Malawian women. The statistics are startling, and yet to most villagers, they鈥檙e nothing more than numbers.