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UMass Amherst@umassamherst· 8d

A new AI model developed by UMass Riccio College of Engineering researchers could be the key to unlocking the full potential of personalized prostate cancer treatment. https://www.umass.edu/news/article/ai-tool-computing-radiation-dose-created-umass-amherst-leads-way-personalizing

A medical linear accelerator used in therapeutic oncology. Credit: Getty Images.

UMass Amherst@umassamherst· 13d

Join us as we kick off the 2026–27 academic year at the 59th Annual Community Breakfast! 📅 Tuesday, September 1, 2026 🕢 7:30–9:00 a.m. 📍 Student Union Ballroom https://umass.irisregistration.com/Form/CommunityBreakfast

Many groups of people cheering for the UMass band at the 58th Annual Community Breakfast at UMass Amherst.

Chancellor Reyes greeting a person seated at a table at the 58th Annual Community Breakfast at UMass Amherst.

A group of people seated at the 58th Annual Community Breakfast at UMass Amherst.

Many groups of people seated at the 58th Annual Community Breakfast at UMass Amherst.

UMass Amherst@umassamherst· 22d

An NIH-supported team is developing new medical device technology to prevent bladder cancer recurrence by exfoliating the bladder lining to remove diseased cells before they become cancerous. https://bit.ly/4h8xomD

UMass Riccio College of Engineering researchers in a laboratory work together at a bench with various scientific equipment and supplies.

Laboratory equipment on a blue grid-patterned surface, including a Petri dish with small transparent square containers and a clear dish filled with metal clips.

A close-up view of a device on a blue grid surface. The device features multiple transparent channels designed for biological or chemical analysis. The background shows a grid pattern, emphasizing the precision of the device's structure.

A close-up of a device, featuring intricate lines and components against a blue background.

UMass Amherst@umassamherst· 22d

New research from UMass finds Supreme Court justices often make small concessions, even when they strongly disagree, to build influence and shape future decisions. The sharpest opinions may not tell the whole story. https://bit.ly/4gQvJll

UMass Amherst@umassamherst· 27d

A shoe-box sized prototype today and a potential game changer for HIV testing tomorrow! UMass researcher Chang Liu has been awarded $1.3 million from NIH to advance a next-gen at-home HIV test that could make early detection more accessible. https://bit.ly/4f45y9w

Chang Liu and postdoctoral fellow Rajiv Ranjan Thakur stand next to the HIV detection device developed by Liu. Top: Liu demonstrates the prototype device.

Postdoctoral fellow Rajiv Ranjan Thakur demonstrates the prototype HIV detection device.

Chang Liu and postdoctoral fellow Rajiv Ranjan Thakur stand next to the HIV detection device developed by Liu.

HIV detection device developed by Chang Liu and postdoctoral fellow Rajiv Ranjan Thakur.

UMass Amherst@umassamherst· Jul 13

Being an ER doctor is stressful, but until now, no one was exactly sure to what extent. Now UMass researchers have developed an approach to figure out how patient behavior affects physicians’ emotions and patient care. https://bit.ly/3SXMHV4

A healthcare worker showing signs of stress and fatigue in an empty, brightly lit hallway.

This image shows six line graphs divided into two sections, labeled as "A. Physicians' Emotions" and "B. Patient Assessments." Each graph displays stress from uncertainty on the x-axis, ranging from 2 to 6. The first section includes graphs for Physician Anger, Anxiety, and Fatigue, all showing red lines trending upwards. The second section includes Patient Likeability, Patient as Historian, and Treatment Adherence. Patient Likeability and Treatment Adherence show horizontal blue lines and upward-trending red lines. Patient as Historian shows a slightly upward blue line and a more steeply upward red line. The blue line represents Calm Patient Behaviors, and the red line represents Irritable Patient Behaviors.

UMass Amherst@umassamherst· Jul 10

Big news! Two grants totaling more than $2.1 million from Massachusetts Life Sciences Center will give UMass researchers and their partners powerful new tools to develop treatments for diseases ranging from heart failure to cancer. https://bit.ly/4vnSVLu

From left to right, Dr. Kirk Taylor, MLSC president and CEO; Hongsoo Choi, professor of biomedical engineering; Gohmyeong Bae, director of cleanroom core facilities; Ned Debold, professor of kinesiology; James Chambers, interim director of Centralized Core Facilities; and Audrey Medeiros, MLSC program manager, at the MLSC announcement event Thursday, July 9 at the Wyss Institute in Boston.

UMass Amherst@umassamherst· Jul 9

⚽ 🚌 What a ride! UMass Transit Services has been proud to support FIFA World Cup transportation to and from Gillette Stadium. Huge thanks to our student employees helping to get fans from around the world get where they need to go! 👏👏👏

A group of UMass Transit bus drivers, trainees, Accessible Van Service drivers, and staff standing in front of three buses at night. These staff assisted in operations driving visitors and locals from area hotels in Eastern Mass to get to Boston (Gillette) Stadium for the FIFA World Cup games.

A group of UMass Transit bus drivers, trainees, Accessible Van Service drivers, and staff standing in front of a banner that reads FIFA World Cup 2026. These staff assisted in operations driving visitors and locals from area hotels in Eastern Mass to get to Boston (Gillette) Stadium for the FIFA World Cup games.

A group of UMass Transit bus drivers, trainees, Accessible Van Service drivers, and staff standing in front of a bus. These staff assisted in operations driving visitors and locals from area hotels in Eastern Mass to get to Boston (Gillette) Stadium for the FIFA World Cup games.

UMass Amherst@umassamherst· Jul 8

What if we've been thinking about plant growth all wrong? Time-lapse images from UMass researchers suggest that temperature controls growth of grasses like wheat, corn, and rice. https://www.umass.edu/news/article/grasses-provide-most-worlds-calories-were-only-now-starting-learn-how-they-grow

UMass Amherst@umassamherst· Jul 7

A simple text message led to a team documenting a rare moment—the first stages of an invasive species establishing itself in a new environment. But it’s not all bad! This invasive species can also be a rich food source for seabirds, crabs and other animals. https://bit.ly/4y9W1VI

Co-author El Fernekees Hartshorn with a baby Manila Clam. Their text message to Putnam launched this investigation.

Photo Credit: El Fernekees Hartshorn

Two people, Putnam (on the left) and Bastidas (on the right), standing on a rocky Massachusetts coastline holding a pan. They are conducting a winter sample of manila clams.

Photo Credit: Aly Putnam

Caption: Empty Manila clam shells blanketing the intertidal zone in Boston Harbor’s Spectacle Island.

Credit: Aly Putnam

A person, co-author Bastidas, on the shoreline in Squantum, Massachusetts, holding a native quahog clam. Mussels and Manila clams are visible in the tray.

Photo Credit: Carolina Bastidas

UMass Amherst@umassamherst· Jul 6

UMass Amherst-led team of microbiologists and @manningcics.bsky.social computer scientists has developed a series of approaches to vastly speed up the search for better tuberculosis drugs with PAC-MAN and AI. https://www.umass.edu/news/article/fighting-worlds-deadliest-infection-pac-man-and-ai

While tuberculosis's mycomembrane is a formidable barrier, the team of researchers has developed a series of approaches to vastly speed up the search for better tuberculosis drugs.

Credit: Irene Lepori

UMass Amherst@umassamherst· Jun 29

A split-second decision can make all the different in patient care. UMass researchers are using eye-tracking technology to help identify design flaws in systems associated with more medication errors, and find ways to create safer healthcare technology. https://bit.ly/4f5GE9r

A student (left) wears eye-tracking glasses as doctoral student Seonhun Lee holds a laptop showing information about the study completed using the technology.

UMass Amherst@umassamherst· Jun 24

New research from is tackling one of healthcare's toughest balancing acts: scheduling surgeons more efficiently. https://www.umass.edu/news/article/scheduling-surgeons-umass-amherst-researchers-identify-factors-could-influence

A surgeon icon stands on one side of a tilted scale. In the middle is a hospital icon and at the other end is a clock, symbolizing the possible efficiency balance.

UMass Amherst@umassamherst· Jun 22

Space suits and other aerospace components need to be flame-retardant, strong and flexible. New research from @umassengineering.bsky.social has demonstrated a potential new avenue for making such plastics. https://bit.ly/4oFynfA

An illustration of THDBT (tetrahydroxy deoxybenzoin triazole) filler aggregates at the molecular level. In this “slow chaos” state, there are fewer vibrational pathways available for heat transport, resulting in lower thermal conductivity. Reproduced from Materials Horizons with permission from the Royal Society of Chemistry.

UMass Amherst@umassamherst· Jun 18

What if tissues use electricity to coordinate repair? New findings from UMass researchers of voltage spikes in skin cells suggest rethinking how cells may communicate over much greater distances than previously thought. https://bit.ly/3QwlDeG @pnasnexus.org @darpa.mil @pnas.org

UMass Amherst@umassamherst· Jun 17

Why do hand-prepared foods seem fresher, higher quality, & safer? This is the "handmade food halo effect," & findings from researchers at @isenbergumass.bsky.social @uh.edu Pennsylvania State University, and César Ritz Colleges suggest we can benefit from being more hands-off! https://bit.ly/4vjeQEn

A deli counter displaying various packaged cold cuts and cheeses.

A person wearing a glove slicing meat into cold cuts using a deli slicer. There is a stack of sliced meat on a paper below the blade.

Conveyor belt with stacks of cold cuts going into a packaging machine in a food processing facility.

A display of various packaged cold cuts.

UMass Amherst@umassamherst· Jun 16

The world's problems can seem too big...until you start learning how Building Solidarity Economies can be a way forward. "This was actually a solution and something that we could build, instead of just talking about all the problems that we faced," says Chloe Spurr ’24 https://bit.ly/4orKnRI

A group of people from the UMass Mutual Aid Project Collaborators group are joyfully posing in a room, some standing and others crouching or seated. Photo: umass.edu

UMass Amherst@umassamherst· Jun 12

Today, we celebrated the transformation of the Gloucester Marine Station into a next-generation marine science hub! The project has notably added a Living Seawall, the second in North America, that will serve as a coastal laboratory. https://bit.ly/445DNXL

The UMass Gloucester Marine Station; a long, light blue building with a dark gray roof stands on the water. Several circular tanks are situated outside on a paved area.

Gloucester Marine Station dedication and opening of the Ann-Margaret Ferrante Living Lab for Marine Science & Education. A large group of people are standing together, looking at the camera, holding and cutting a long, pink ribbon. The Gloucester Marine Station buildings are in the background.

A large group of people sitting on chairs at the Gloucester Marine Station dedication and opening of the Ann-Margaret Ferrante Living Lab for Marine Science & Education.

Aerial view of a small peninsula extending into calm greenish-blue water with the roofs of the UMass Gloucester Marine Station and a cluster of other structures. The surrounding water is green-blue.

UMass Amherst@umassamherst· Jun 3

By using a bacteria as a Trojan horse to sneak past the body's immune system, UMass researchers have figured out a new way to deliver cancer-fighting viruses to deadly tumors. https://bit.ly/3RDBvwe

UMass Amherst@umassamherst· Jun 2

Our CSL building is the first on campus to earned Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum certification by the @usgbc.bsky.social! https://bit.ly/4o5iFdw

CICS CSL Computer Science Labs building at UMass Amherst campus.

UMass Amherst@umassamherst· Jun 1

The wastewater from clothing factories might be worse—and more toxic—than we've realized, UMass @mcbeathlab.bsky.social researchers have found. “The textile industry seems a bit like the wild west.” bit.ly/4o1cqaB

UMass Amherst@umassamherst· May 27

🍅 Want a thriving tomato crop? There are 11 plants that can negativity impact your tomato harvest of planted too close. https://bit.ly/4wRB3KO @CAFE_UMass First Image credit: Mykhailo Hrytsiv / 500px / Getty Images

A group of red and green tomatoes on a stem surrounded by the leaves of tomato plants.

Credit: Mykhailo Hrytsiv / 500px / Getty Images

A person in a hat reaches putting tomatoes in a green crate filled with more tomatoes. Another person in the background.

A person stands behind a truck bed filled with crates of vegetables, including tomatoes, kale, carrots, and green bell peppers. The truck is parked on a farm with crops in the background.

Hands dropping small yellow tomatoes into a box filled with other fresh vegetables.

UMass Amherst@umassamherst· May 22

Pass by digital billboards this summer and you may spot the work of UMass' Sanidhya Kumar '26, winner of this year's MassDOT Work Zone Billboard Contest. Kumar's winning entry addressed the 2026 theme "Safe Actions Save Lives" on a roadway style design. https://bit.ly/4e1oXGz

1st place winner of the National Work Zone Awareness 2026 Billboard Design Contest, created by UMass Amherst student Sanidhya Kumar. Courtesy of MassDOT. It features six orange traffic signs with messages: "Slow Work Zone Ahead," "Be Prepared to Stop," and "Watch for Workers" above hazard stripes, and three signs below depicting construction symbols.

UMass Amherst@umassamherst· May 19

“Even if you have a strong family history or high genetic risk, it’s not a foregone conclusion that you’ll develop Type 2 diabetes,” says Prof. Spracklen. “Healthier lifestyle choices will mitigate your risk—even if you’ve lost the genetic lottery.” https://bit.ly/4tFJB4z

UMass Amherst@umassamherst· May 18

🎓 Reliving the joy, pride, and celebration of Commencement Day! Congrats, Class of 2026. #UMassGrad2026

UMass Amherst@umassamherst· May 17

Congratulations to the graduates of the Stockbridge School of Agriculture! #UMassGrad2026 https://bit.ly/3ResgSX

Students in academic regalia walking out of a room.

A stage with a group of people in academic regalia seated. A crowd of people are looking at the stage.

A group of people in academic regalia standing together on stone steps.

A group of people standing in a line wearing academic regalia as they turn their tassels.

UMass Amherst@umassamherst· May 15

Today we celebrated with our Class of 2026 grads at Commencement! What was your favorite ceremony moment? https://bit.ly/4ntsYHM

Students cheering at the UMass Undergraduate Commencement ceremony.

Students entering the UMass Undergraduate Commencement ceremony.

A processional of UMass schools and colleges flags entering the Undergraduate Commencement ceremony.

A person in academic regalia at the UMass Undergraduate Commencement ceremony.

UMass Amherst@umassamherst· May 15

🎓 The moments before the milestone #UMassGrad2026 Commencement schedule & livestream: https://www.umass.edu/commencement/livestream

A mascot with a group of students in academic regalia at the UMass Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony.

Two students in academic regalia at the UMass Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony.

A group of students in academic regalia at the UMass Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony.

UMass Amherst@umassamherst· May 12

Wilmore Webley, Prof. of Microbiology and Senior Vice Provost of Equity and Inclusion, breaks down the rise of vaccine misinformation, declining vaccination rates, and what’s really behind recent outbreaks in this event (open to the public). https://bit.ly/4dj0onN

UMass Amherst@umassamherst· May 9

Today, we celebrated the Class of 2026 at the Doctoral Hooding Ceremony 🎓 Surrounded by loved ones, mentors, and faculty, our doctoral graduates were recognized for their perseverance, research, and academic excellence. Congratulations on this incredible achievement! https://bit.ly/4u3LGZe