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soft stretchable electronic device
A team of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has received a four-year, $1.75-million NSF Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF) award to study and construct a new class of soft and stretchable electronic devices that can be used in future healthcare, security, and communications applications.
UMass Amherst has climbed into the Top 25 of the nation’s premier public universities in the Best Colleges 2020 guide published by U.S. News & World Report. Advancing from No. 52 in 2010 to No. 24 in 2020, our ascent makes us the fastest-rising, top-tier public-research university in the country. Our revolutionary ideas and impact is on par with the best universities in the nation and the world. As the largest producer of undergraduate STEM degrees in the Commonwealth, we play a vital role in filling the talent pipeline that drives the Massachusetts knowledge economy. Go UMass!
Karen Skolfield
UMass alumna Karen Skolfield, a lecturer in the College of Engineering Junior Writing Program and a writer-in-residence in the college’s Career Development and Experiential Learning Center, was recently interviewed in the weekly “Ten Questions” column of the distinguished magazine Poets & Writers. Her second poetry collection, Battle Dress, was published in August by W.W. Norton, and she is also the author of a previous poetry collection, Frost in the Low Areas.
