UMass Amherst News

The 46th Design Automation Conference today announced that the DAC community, through a month-long online vote, selected "Power Scavenging: Waste Not, Want Not" as its favorite topic for the first-ever "Community-Driven" DAC Pavilion Panel .

U.S. scientists studying the process of hammering a nail say they found men are more accurate than women when hammering under poor lighting conditions.

Nanomaterials expert Ryan Hayward in his laboratory at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst supervises Jesse Tzeng from the University of Michigan, a student who joined Hayward in his laboratory for the summer as part of an NSF REU grant, as Tzeng makes observations with a fluorescence microscope.

Could it be that men have evolved to be more accurate at hitting a target with a weapon in the dark than women? That's the surprising question left after a recent small study of human biomechanics conducted by evolutionary biologist Duncan Irschick of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and colleagues who studied the roles of various factors, ...

The first generation to grow up digital is online nearly all the time. According to the a oeTeen Advertising Studya by Fuse Marketing and the University of Massachusetts Amherst , 45% of US teen Internet users were heavy users of the Web.

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / June 29, 2009 12:37 PM / Chances are you wouldn't tell grandma about the wild party you went to last Saturday night.

In a shaky economy, Cape high school graduates are taking a hard look at their finances before deciding what to do next year.

The Seekonk Post Office will be renamed Sunday in honor of a local soldier who was killed in the Iraq War.

Jun 23 2009 12:00AM http://democrats.org/blog.html The Obama Administration is dispatching cabinet secretaries and senior officials around the country this week to highlight the need for comprehensive energy legislation that makes us more energy independent, reduces climate change-causing greenhouse gas emissions and creates millions of green jobs.

Three University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty members have won $754,000 from the National Institutes of Health to encourage underrepresented minorities with recent bachelor's degrees to pursue doctorate degrees in disciplines related to biomedicine.

Aptaras fast publishing solutions launch mass distribution of eBooks Aptara, a pioneer in digital publishing solutions, was chosen by MP Publishing, a leading eBook publisher, to convert publications previously unreleased in eBook form.

Using a a oechemical nosea array of nanoparticles and polymers, researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed a fundamentally new, more effective way to differentiate not only between healthy and cancerous cells but also between metastatic and non-metastatic cancer cells.

An Iraq war veteran has died after hitting his head on rocks while swimming at a Quincy quarry.

Nancy Folbre is an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

The University of Massachusetts in Amherst is marking the summer solstice at its Sunwheel.

Increased investment in clean energy and conservation could do far more than reduce pollution, according to two reports released Thursday.

Thu, Jun 18, 2009 Beyond the Sun PERI Green Recovery Report Sun Topics Sun business and economy coverage Las Vegas could become a hub of green jobs aimed at putting the less educated to work, according to a report released today.

It's been five years since winter moths were first discovered on the North Shore.

This past Saturday, more than 220 students, faculty members and alumni of the UMass Amherst University Without Walls program gathered to celebrate and commend the dedication and success of two of their retiring faculty members.

Nancy Folbre is an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.