Why Are Fish Getting Smaller as Waters Warm?
A team of scientists led by the UMass Amherst recently found that there is no physiological evidence supporting a leading theory as to why fish are shrinking.
CNS Researchers Argue That We Must Change How We Think about Water When Mining in Arid Regions
This is the widest-ever hydrological tracer analysis of the Dry Andes region in Chile, Argentina, and Bolivia.
Rachel Hestrin Wins FFAR New Innovator Award in Soil Health
This ~$450,000 award will support Hestrin’s research on mycorrhizal-microbial synergies that can strengthen agricultural resilience and health.
Nathan Senner Gives a Behind-the-scenes Look at PBS’s ‘Flyways’
'Flyways' is the latest episode in the award-winning PBS wildlife television program Nature.
Stockbridge Students Score Victories at National Collegiate Landscape Competition
The UMass team placed 14th out of 50 competing college and universities at the National Collegiate Landscape Competition.
Julie Brigham-Grette Discusses the Arctic on BBC's 'The Climate Question'
Brigham-Grette discussed climate change and resulting tensions in the Arctic.
UMass Amherst Researchers Join $26 Million Quantum Computing Effort to Build Internet of the Future
This initiative is overseen by the Center for Quantum Networks, a $26 million, five-year, renewable effort.
'Western Mass News' Asks Erika Hamilton, Microbiology, to Reflect on COVID
Dr. Hamilton notes that we now know of certain subsets who are more susceptible to severe COVID infection.
Chemistry and OEB Students Among Winners of the Three Minute Thesis
Rehab Heikal, chemistry, and Seanne Clemente, organismic and evolutionary biology, were named 3MT runners up for their respective presentations.
Wei Zhu, Mathematics, Receives Air Force Grant to Study Scientific Machine Learning
This grant is aimed at studying how scientific machine learning can be used to model enormously complex physical and engineering systems.
Michael Rawlins and Team Share Research on Thawing Permafrost’s Effects on Ecosystems
We know the arctic is warming, but EGCS's findings shed light on what changing river flows will do to its environment.