University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA·Public
28 labs on PI Pages. It spends $282M a year on research and awards 337 research doctorates a year.
- Students
- 36,745: 27,478 undergraduates, 9,267 graduate
- Postdocs
- 175
- Faculty
- 1,458 full-time
- Campus
- Highly residential
Labs here
Min Yun
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Sustain operations of the 50-meter Large Millimeter Telescope Alfonso Serrano as a US-Mexico collaboration and maintain US community access, bridging to a longer-term partnership.
Phuc Nguyen
Computer Science·Early-career
Build computational models that translate jaw movement and faint facial vibrations, captured by an ear-worn sensor, into speech sounds and commands so users can control devices silently.
Juan Zhai
Computer Science·Early-career
Build a repository-level dataset linking natural-language documentation, formal behavioral specifications and code, with an automated pipeline for reproducible evaluation of specification accuracy.
Wei Cui
Biology
Define how loss of maternal MCM4, part of the helicase that unwinds DNA for copying, blocks zygotic DNA replication, using oocyte-specific Mcm4 knockout mice and EdU labeling of new DNA.
Mariana Lopes
Engineering·Early-career
Quantify how UV dose and exposure time change bacterial attachment, extracellular polymeric substance release, motility and inactivation, using UV-emitting glass in microfluidic flow cells with phase-contrast microscopy.
Where its research money goes
A year of research spending, from the NSF survey every research university fills in.