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By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

AMHERST — A University of Massachusetts Amherst geosciences assistant professor has won one of the field’s most prestigious awards for those early in their career.The American Geophysical Union’s Earth and Planetary Surface Processes Focus Group...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

AMHERST — In his short story “The Daughters of the Moon,” the writer Italo Calvino described a mythological New York City “where every object was thrown away at the slightest sign of breakage or aging, at the first dent or stain, and replaced with a...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

AMHERST — Earth is in the midst of a mass extinction of animal life, and the term “Anthropocene extinction” gives an obvious clue as to the cause: human activity.Due to everything from habitat destruction to environmental degradation and climate...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

AMHERST — As a first-generation college student, 22-year-old Kalsang Nangpa was thrilled to take part in the University of Massachusetts commencement ceremony next week.As part of the ceremony, there is a parade of flags from the different nations...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSENand NICOLE DEFEUDIS

AMHERST — Mishka Murad, a doctoral candidate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, often wonders whether the groceries she is buying are going to prevent her from making it to her next paycheck. So she collects coupons, doesn’t own a car and...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

AMHERST — When he was an athletic 14-year-old hiking the Berkshires during a YMCA summer camp, Nick Springer would never have imagined that two months later he’d wake up from a coma weighing just 53 pounds, his arms and legs amputated after a vicious...