The University of Massachusetts Amherst, founded in 1863, is the flagship of the five-campus UMass system. Home to the Commonwealth Honors College, UMass Amherst incorporates modern teaching methods involving new communication and information technology, yet remains an immersive, residential campus serving more than 22,000 undergraduate and approximately 6,300 graduate students across a comprehensive array of academic programs.
True to its land-grant roots, UMass Amherst is engaged in research and creative work in all fields and is classified by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as a doctoral university with the “highest research activity” or R1. Major areas of emphasis include climate science, food science, alternative energy, nanomanufacturing, polymer science, computer science and linguistics.
Together, students and faculty are deeply engaged in collaboration with communities — both regional and international — to improve their social and economic conditions.
Insistir que há uma solução tecnológica para todos os problemas do mundo parece não apenas otimista, mas também bastante conveniente se você estiver entre as pessoas mais ricas do planeta e em posição de lucrar com o setor de tecnologia.
When venture capitalist and techno-optimist Marc Andreessen speaks, many people listen.
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Trump’s efforts may appear to play by the rules, but in reality they ignore key aspects of the rule of law because he does not act in good faith.
New College of Florida’s board of trustees, including conservative activist Christopher Rufo, on the screen, lower right, at a Feb. 28, 2023, meeting at which they voted to abolish the office that handles diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
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There’s a backlash against programs that aim to reverse the effects of systemic racism in the US. A survey indicates that racism is behind that backlash.
Car infotainment systems are getting ever more sophisticated.
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Given her strengths and Donald Trump’s vulnerabilities, why did Nikki Haley fail to seriously challenge Trump’s dominant position in the GOP primaries? Sexism is part of the answer.
Water from the Mackenzie River, seen from a satellite, carries silt and nutrients from land to the Arctic Ocean.
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The jury’s verdict followed years of allegations that the gun group’s top official and other leaders were spending money meant to benefit its members on their own luxuries.
Southern Africa’s rhinos need new watering holes and patches of tree cover before 2085.
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In the worst-case scenario currently being mapped, Earth’s temperature could increase by 4.3°C before 2100. Southern African rhinos will have no possibility of surviving this unless parks act now.
The impact of extra cash payments introduced during the COVID pandemic in South Africa is being considered.
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When evaluating the costs and benefits of the employment programme, and similar ones such as social grants, ‘extra’ economic benefits need to be part of the calculation.
Studying this discipline helps you understand how society works.
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The boards that oversee the education of students enrolled in Florida’s public colleges and universities are trying to restrict enrollment in sociology courses on those campuses.
Scholars interviewed people living near the University of Colorado Hospital to assess whether it’s a good neighbor.
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Standards are vague, and the IRS, which is tasked with enforcement, hasn’t provided much oversight.
The Israeli Supreme Court assembled in September 2023 to hear arguments to strike down a controversial judicial overhaul limiting the power of the court to review and overturn government decisions.
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Israel’s highest court has struck down the government’s law limiting its power. Three scholars look at why the law was proposed, what it aimed to do and who supported – and opposed – it.
SAG-AFTRA captain Mary M. Flynn rallies fellow striking actors on a picket line outside Netflix studios in November 2023.
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Two labor scholars argue that the balance of power between workers and employers, which has been tilted toward employers for nearly a half-century, is beginning to shift.
A police officer walks into a building at University of Massachusetts Amherst to arrest students who staged a sit-in outside of the Chancellor’s office.
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The first of two episodes of The Conversation Weekly podcast exploring how the Israel-Gaza war is affecting life at universities.
Students at UMass Amherst march across campus following a walkout and rally protesting the university’s “ties with war profiteers,” while also calling for “a ceasefire and end of the blockade on Gaza.”
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A scholar of the Mideast at a large public university says that caring and a commitment to free speech have been central to his campus’s response to students upset and angry over the Israel-Hamas war.
Content moderators like these workers make decisions about online communities based on company dictates.
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In the days of online bulletin board systems, community members decided what was acceptable. Reviving that approach to content moderation offers Big Tech a path to legitimacy as public spaces.
Striking members of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union in New York City in 1958.
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Many of the reasons for strikes now – low compensation, technological change, job insecurity and safety concerns – mirror the motives that workers had for walking off the job in decades past.
Professor (Full) of Watershed Management, Water Resources, Water Quality, Ecohydrology, Complex Systems, Ecological Economics, and Sustainability., UMass Amherst