Associate Professor Jessica Schiffman, the interim department head of the Chemical Engineering Department at UMass Amherst, has been selected to the 鈥2021 I&EC Research Class of Influential Researchers 鈥 the Americas鈥 by the journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research (I&EC), a mainstay in the field of chemical engineering since 1909.
AMHERST, Mass. 鈥 Amanda Desmond, a junior and major in the 91探花 Amherst Commonwealth Honors College, has been named one of 51 for 2022.
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New research led by the 91探花 Amherst definitively resolves a long-standing discrepancy in the geologic record that pitted studies of marine ice-sheet behavior against those that reconstructed past conditions on land.
On February 8, 2022, UMass Dartmouth and Congressman William Keating announced a $4.3M grant from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to research projects through the at UMass Dartmouth in collaboration with the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport (NUWCDIVNPT).
, associate professor at the and the (IALS), and Dian Baker, professor emeritus at Sacramento State University, will lead a two-year, interdisciplinary trial in partnership with two Illinois hospitals 鈥 the University of Illinois School of Nursing and Hospital and Northwest Community Hospital 鈥 and the University of Il
A meta-analysis of 15 studies involving nearly 50,000 people from four continents offers new insights into identifying the amount of daily walking steps that will optimally improve adults鈥 health and longevity 鈥 and whether the number of steps is different for people of different ages.
The analysis represents an effort to develop an evidence-based public health message about the benefits of physical activity. The oft-repeated 10,000-steps-a-day mantra grew out of a decades-old marketing campaign for a Japanese pedometer, with no science to back up the impact on health.
A team of faculty researchers led by Assoc.