Robotic Hip Exoskeleton Shows Promise for Helping Stroke Patients Regain Their Stride
Portable robotic device created by UMass researchers provides new avenue for making state-of-the-art gait rehabilitation methods more effective and accessible.
NIH Funds ChE’s Sarah Perry to Develop Next Generation of X-ray Crystallography Techniques
Perry’s research aims to transform X-ray crystallography, a renowned method that reveals the 3-D structure and function of protein molecules.
Road Features that Predict Crash Sites Identified in New Machine-Learning Model
UMass Amherst study used data collected from 9,300 miles of road.
Disadvantaged Communities in Massachusetts Twice as Likely to Have Poor Roads—and Pay the Cost in Gas
New research quantifies how the impact of poorly maintained roads disproportionately impacts residents across the state.
CEE’s Colin Gleason Co-authors One of Five Most-read Papers in Water Resources Research
The paper explains river-volume estimates and expected accuracy of NASA’s SWOT satellite mission, thus promoting likely global-scale advances in hydrology.
BME’s Dmitry Kireev Receives NSF Grant to Create Electronic “Tattoos” for Monitoring Sweat Biomarkers
Kireev’s monitoring devices will target the cortisol in sweat, a biomarker for such conditions as stress, stroke, Cushing's syndrome, and Addison's disease.
ChE Lecturer Dandan Xu Puts the Zing in Chemical Engineering Courses by Gamifying Student Presentations
Xu also experiments with different interactive tools and game-based setups designed to boost student participation and enhance learning outcomes.
ChE’s Jungwoo Lee Publishes Groundbreaking Paper on Osteoporosis Testing in Nature Communications
Lee’s trailblazing assay could determine how osteoporosis drugs impact bone remodeling and can identify potential therapeutic targets to prevent bone loss.
MIE’s Fall Semester Senior Design Showcase Highlights Novel and Creative Projects
The competition rewards student teams for capturing customer needs, converting them to engineering specs, and applying optimal engineering analysis and design.
UMass Amherst Researchers Develop First High-Precision Dual-Color Optoelectronic Brain Probe
The new design has the potential to advance basic neuroscience studies and ultimately shed light on neurological conditions such as epilepsy.