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Located in western Massachusetts, UMass Amherst is the flagship campus of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts' five-campus University of Massachusetts system. UMass Amherst is a nationally recognized teaching and research institution with a current enrollment of about 28,500 students.
Experts (54)
Andrew Lover
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and and Deputy Director, New England Center of Excellence in Vector-Borne Disease
Andrew Lover is an infectious disease epidemiologist whose work focuses on malaria and other vector-borne diseases.
Tick-borne Diseases Infectious Disease Vector-Borne Diseases Drug Development Malaria
Scott Niekum
Associate Professor, Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences
Scott Niekum works to enable personal robots to be deployed in the home and workplace. He is an expert on the social implications of AI.
AI Human-Robot Interaction Robotic Manipulation AI Safety Reinforcement Learning Imitation Learning
Isabella Weber
Associate Professor of Economics
Economist Isabella Weber has gained international attention and accolades for her ground-breaking ideas on price controls and inflation.
Price Caps Seller's Inflation Inflation History of Economic Thought
Robert M. DeConto
Provost Professor of and Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences and Director of the School of Earth and Sustainability
Rob DeConto is one of the world's leading experts on modeling polar ice sheets, sea level rise and ocean response to climate change.
Ice Sheets and Sea Level Antarctica Glaciology Climatology Earth System Modeling Sea Level Rise Greenland Ice Sheets
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