The largest terrestrial carbon sink on earth is the planet’s soil. One of the fears that many scientists have is that a warming planet will liberate significant portions of the soil’s carbon, turning it into carbon dioxide (CO2) gas, and so further accelerate the pace of planetary warming. One of the key players in this story is the microbe: invisible, and yet the predominant form of life on earth.
University of Massachusetts Amherst assistant professor Xian Du, mechanical and industrial engineering, has received an $810,000 grant from a subsidiary of Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil company to support the development of a novel sensing technology used to monitor the strain on critical oil-pump equipment.
University of Massachusetts Amherst Dining Services has been awarded $319,000 by the Henry P. Kendall Foundation for its “Strategies to Onboard Kelp into College Dining Programs” project.
AMHERST, Mass. – As the world switches from fossil fuels to renewable energy, new research by an international team including University of Massachusetts Amherst economist Gregor Semieniuk has found that different countries face different risks and opportunities in the face of this green transition.
Nine researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have been recognized for being among the world’s most highly cited researchers in 2021.
The analysis by Philadelphia-based Clarivate Analytics, owner of the Web of Science, serves as the basis for regular listings of researchers whose citation records put them in the top 1 percent by citations for their field and year.
It's one thing to say "Black Lives Matter". But when people came together for Black Lives Matter Day at UMass Boston, it was for a different purpose: understanding what it means.
Chancellor Marcelo Suárez-Orozco kicked off a day of activism, learning, and reflection with a moving welcome to a ballroom of faculty, staff, and students, and dozens of people who participated online.
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Members of the UMass community gathered in Dartmouth Friday, October 22, and in Amherst Saturday October 23, to celebrate the past, present, and future of Brutalist architecture on the UMass Dartmouth and UMass Amherst campuses.