Researchers are looking for ways to program computers to improve the computers' own teaching skills based on observed student behavior. Under a $1.2 million grant from the NSF, a team of UMass Amherst professors is collaborating to improve "computerized tutors" for high school students.
Researchers are developing new polymer materials that can encapsulate organ cells and other materials and deliver them inside the human body. The process is designed to replace risky organ transplants for people in need of a new liver, thyroid, pancreas, cartilage or some other crucial kind of tissue.
A sociologist has embarked on a study that will trace the origins of our modern-day conceptions of death and disease. Focusing on two Connecticut River communities from 1850 to 1912, the study is examining how medical terminology changes as well as the historical precision of cause-of-death records.
UMass Amherst is launching a three-year, federally funded effort to recruit more minority and disadvantaged students to the field. At the end of three years, the goal is to increase the percentage of minority nursing students enrolling at area community colleges and UMass by 20 percent.
Historians and researchers searching through handwritten documents, such as the 140,000 pages that make up George Washington's personal papers, now have a new powerful tool to aid their work "“ a first-of-its kind manuscript retrieval system developed by computer scientists.
A UMass professor says the Littleton shootings reveal the country has not learned the lessons of past gun-related tragedies. "All the headlines are about "kids killing kids" or the "problem of youth violence." But this isn't kids killing kids, it's boys killing other boys and girls. There's something about the way in which we're raising boys that leads to this."
The Isenberg School of Management and the department of computer science at the University of Massachusetts join forces in an academic center to study and teach about electronic commerce. A conference in Boston in June launches the effort.
Rudolph Crew, chancellor of the Board of Education of the City of New York and a UMass alumnus, will deliver the main address at the 129th Commencement of the University of Massachusetts, to be held at 10:30 a.m. on Sun. May 23, in Warren P. McGuirk Alumni Stadium.
A UMass mathematics professor chuckles as he recalls the scenes from the Star Wars movies, in which the spacecraft rapidly accelerates into hyperspace. "The stars wouldn't smear if you were approaching the speed of light," he explains.
A University of Massachusetts climate researcher has just returned from a month-long, international expedition to a remote lake in Eastern Siberia -- the site of an ancient meteorite crater. Scientists hope that collected sediments will give them clues about the region's past climate since the area was hit by a meteorite 3.6 million years ago.
Researchers have successfully treated Parkinsonism in rats by using fetal brain cells from cloned cows. This research is the first demonstration that transgenic cloned animal tissue can be used in the treatment of a disease. Results of the research study will appear in the May 1 issue of the journal Nature Medicine.
Climatologists at the University of Massachusetts have reconstructed the global temperature over the past 600 years, determining that three recent years, 1997, 1995, and 1990, were the warmest years since at least AD 1400. The study, is detailed in Nature's April 23 issue.
Today's business leaders can benefit by following some of the practical lessons taught by Jesus, according to Charles C. Manz, professor of business leadership at the University of Massachusetts and author of the new book "The Leadership Wisdom of Jesus."
The statistics are harrowing: 6,500 young adults between the ages of 16 and 20 die annually in the United States -- aproximately 18 per day -- as a result of motor vehicle accidents, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation. A collaboration between the University of Massachusetts and the American Automobile Association is aimed at giving young drivers the experience needed to drive safely -- without actually putting them on the road.
Amherst, Mass. -- Two University of Massachusetts researchers have received a grant from the National Science Foundation to create a software program aimed at easing math anxiety in girls.
AMHERST, Mass. -- Larry Williams helps make modern, high-tech research possible at the University of Massachusetts by practicing a centuries-old craft: glassblowing. He and an assistant custom-craft one-of-a-kind glassware needed by scientists and engineers at the University.
Ten high school students are spending alternate Saturday mornings conducting scientific experiments on polymers at the University of Massachusetts.
The Faculty Senate at the University of Massachusetts has approved the establishment of a Center for Neuroendocrine Studies. Neuroendocinologists are interested in how the body chemicals called hormones act in the brain, and how the brain influences hormones.
George Avrunin, professor of mathematics and statistics at the University of Massachusetts, has received a $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation for research on the effective linking of computer systems. He is working in conjunction with UMass computer science professors Lori Clarke and Leon Osterweil. The group's research could eventually be used in the development of computer systems used in areas such as air traffic control, airline reservation systems, and the monitoring of hospital patients.
University of Massachusetts biochemistry professor Anne Simon watches the hit TV show "The X-Files" with particular interest. Simon is a science consultant to the show's creator and executive producer, Chris Carter.
A recently graduated geologist is one of the two scientists with University of Massachusetts degress who are working on NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission. Nathan Bridges earned his doctorate in geology this past April, before being hired by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., for a postdoctoral position.
A University of Massachusetts graduate is the chief scientist on NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission. Matthew Golombek, who has worked with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the mission since its inception five years ago, studied the geology of Mars, Earth, and the moon while earning his master's and doctoral degrees in geology from the University in 1978 and 1981, respectively.
Weeds can be more than just a backyard nuisance, according to a University of Massachusetts biologist who will produce a documentary film on the topic.
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