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UMass Dartmouth receives $4.3M grant from the U.S. Navy for continued focus on marine technology development

The third award in as many years from the Office of Naval Research will further the University's research efforts in the blue economy and offshore wind sectors

Vijaya Chalivendra
Professor Vijaya Chalivendra awarded $430K by National Science Foundation

Dr. Chalivendra received the $430,631 award from the NSF's Division of Materials Research for his“REU site: Advanced Interdisciplinary Materials Research for Maritime Applications” project, which will host a summer cohort of community college students who will conduct cutting-edge research on advanced marine materials.

Abigail Keith lab working
Office of Naval Research awards Dr. John Buck $434K to create acoustic signal processing models

Project combines noninvasive brain imaging techniques, animal behavior experiments, & signal processing models to gain a better understanding of how animals use echolocation to gather information about their environment.

Society of Women Engineers
Society of Women Engineers partners with Acushnet Middle School

Society of Women Engineers introduces middle-grade students to the field of engineering and STEM career options.

Professor Tracie Ferreira
UMass Dartmouth awarded $1.49M from the National Science Foundation to develop leadership skills and engineering identity in graduate students

The award led by Dr. Tracie Ferreira will provide $900,000 in scholarships to prepare graduate students to excel as skilled leaders in entrepreneurship, technology, and innovation in an effort to build the South Coast’s blue economy.

Banafsheh Seyed Aghazadeh
Banafsheh Seyed-Aghazadeh receives National Science Foundation CAREER Award

Award supports Seyed-Aghazadeh’s research efforts in the area of fluid dynamics, shedding light on the fundamentals of fluid-structure-surface interactions in underwater flexible bodies, including near-surface arrays of energy harvesters and underwater soft robots.

Year in Review Top 2021
Year in Review: Top 21 stories of 2021

A return to campus brought UMass Dartmouth together to achieve new heights

UMassD students at Dell EMC
UMass Dartmouth & Dell Technologies continue partnership to diversify workforce

Since 2018, the "Changing the Face of Tech" partnership has provided 500+ STEM-related training & employment opportunities to UMassD students from historically underrepresented groups.

Jim LaCroix
UMass Dartmouth alum Jim LaCroix creates career opportunity for grad student

Brian Giordano expanded his software development skills via research assistantship opportunity at Huntington Ingalls Industries with the help of alum Jim LaCroix

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NASA awards Robert Fisher $550K research grant

Through supercomputer simulations of supernovae, Professor Fisher and colleagues will shed light on the origin of exploding stars.

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