An intercollegiate group of researchers led by Associate Professor Dan Sheldon has released BirdFlow, a novel predictive model capable of accurately forecasting the flight pattern of migratory birds--one of the most difficult tasks in biology.

A team led by doctoral student Chris Samarinas and advised by Assistant Professor Hamed Zamani is, again, one of just ten teams selected worldwide to participate in the Amazon Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge.

A UMass team led by Associate Professor Jie Xiong won the prestigious ACM SenSys Best Paper Award for research detailing that waste energy from Visual Light Communication can be harvested using the human body as an antenna.

With the generous support of the Baker-Polito administration, UMass Amherst has broken ground on a new, world-class $125 million facility for education, research, and outreach at the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences.