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AMHERST, Mass. – The University of Massachusetts Amherst is one of 140 nonprofits to receive grants through the Cummings Foundation $25 million Grant Program. UMass was chosen from among 590 applicants and will receive $100,000 over three years.

Research

Distinguished Professor of Food Science David Julian McClements has been busy this summer sharing insights on how modern science is turning food into medicine, which is one of the main focuses of his research at UMass Amherst.

Student Life

Four elite athletes with ties to UMass Amherst represented their nations in Tokyo during the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad.

Research
DNA, RNA, and protein synthesis. Credit: ttsz/Getty Images
DNA, RNA, and protein synthesis. Credit: ttsz/Getty Images

AMHERST, Mass. – Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently unveiled their discovery of a new process for making RNA. The resulting RNA is purer, more copious and likely to be more cost-effective than any previous process could manage.

Impact

 

Impact, Research
A team of UMass Lowell faculty led by Mechanical Engineering Assoc. Prof. Chris Hansen won a $241,300 state grant to help ensure that underrepresented populations have access to jobs in the state's emerging offshore wind industry.
A team of UMass Lowell faculty led by Mechanical Engineering Assoc. Prof.
Student Life, Impact
On the final day of the College Exploration Seminar, students gather at Lydon Library on North Campus to work on self-assessment exercises with seminar leader Anne Apigian.
On the final day of the College Exploration Seminar, students gather at Lydon Library on North Campus to work on self-assessment exercises with seminar leader Anne Apigian.

Despite some persistent encouragement from his family, Anthony Marifiot

Student Life
Symphonic Band Camp students play under a tent outside Durgin Hall on South Campus, where the camp returned this year after a one-year hiatus because of the pandemic.
Symphonic Band Camp students play under a tent outside Durgin Hall on South Campus, where the camp returned this year after a one-year hiatus because of the pandemic.

Ask Margaret Wall, 20, what she did when UML’s annual weeklong band camp was sc

Student Life
Camden Hedrick, left, and Jayla Josey
Camden Hedrick, left, and Jayla Josey have become "besties" through First to Launch, a new summer bridge program for first-generation college students.

Maddie Emond, an incoming computer science major from Dracut, Massachusetts, signed up for the&n

Leadership, Press Release

BOSTON - Dr. Mark Fuller, who has served as interim chancellor of UMass Dartmouth since January, was named permanent chancellor today. Dr.

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