An interdisciplinary project to investigate developmental milestones for African-American English and design dialect-sensitive assessment tools for speech-language professionals and the child language research community.

Analyzing, designing, and developing microstrip antennas and arrays, with a broader interest in related radiation and scattering problems.

Performing research on improving the energy efficiency of building assemblies, materials, heating and energy producing equipment and components.

A research group focusing on the development of systems capable of functioning responsively, robustly and flexibly to a variety of students, within a variety of domains, and with multiple tutoring strategies to build powerful teaching systems.

Dedicated to serving the speech, language, and hearing needs of the communicatively impaired child and adult.

This program will provide educational opportunities for coaches, trainers, undergraduate and graduate students in Nutrition and Exercise Science, public schools, community programs, and underserved populations.

Stresses behaviors that lower women's risk of mortality, illness or injury throughout the life span.

Strategies, centers of research, and staff supporting both basic scientific research and focused projects of complex human-machine systems.

Research and development of novel compound semiconductor devices for high frequency and photonic applications.

Combines University knowledge and unaffiliated agency expertise to address marine issues affecting the Commonwealth, region, and nation.

Supporting an ongoing dialogue among family members in business to gain perspective, develop strategies, and overcome obstacles faced in the conference room and in the dining room.

Developing statistical and physical models for various imaging techniques, designing optimal algorithms for reconstructing noisy, blurred or otherwise corrupted image data, information fusion for image processing and system modeling; video coding and data compression, neural networks for system modeling and optimization, and signal detection and estimation.

Created to promote research and advanced thought in the humanistic disciplines, broadly conceived. Sponsors seminars organized on an interdisciplinary basis around single themes that are conducted by Fellows and Associate Fellows drawn from the faculty.

Research centered on technology related to integrated microwave, millimeter wave, and submillimeter wave (Terahertz) components.

Operates within the College of Food and Natural Resources, and is a mandated research organization that administers and distributes Federal Experiment Station Funds. Also monitors all research related activities in the College, and encourages new research initiatives.

Modeling the behavior of highspeed and high-power semiconductor devices.

An interdisciplinary research institute of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, by providing a variety of services to the University, the Commonwealth, and to national and international audiences.

Offering comprehensive dietary, menu, and recipe evaluation for nutritional adequacy.

Supports fundamental research in polymer science and engineering and related fields. Brings together researchers using an interdisciplinary approach, to provide a collective perspective from which to define and pursue the most promising opportunities in polymer materials research.

Research, develop and introduce efficient software solutions that can support the Quality of Service requirements of multimedia applications in existing networks.

Focuses on the design and modification of processes and materials "upstream" to minimize pollution prior to ultimate treatment and disposal.

Provides educational programs and materials to make informed decisions and take actions that preserve or enhance the quality, productivity and sustainability of natural resources and natural systems.

Supporting University research and training in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and providing expertise to public agencies, municipalities, schools, and businesses in the U.S. and overseas, utilizing information about geologic, hydrologic, topographic, land use maps, aerial, satellite, and radar images, earth science and map data in digital format and related applications software, and geodetic data.

Providing a wide range of services that support research and scholarly activities and facilitate outreach initiatives. You can find information on locating funding sources, proposal submission, research policies, developing strategic partnerships, and commercializing your research.

Seeking new architectures for high performance parallel and distributed computing systems with a particular emphasis on embedded real-time systems and fault-tolerance in parallel systems.

Reconfigurable computing including CAD for FPGAs, adaptive systems on a chip, and adaptive implementations of communication coding in reconfigurable hardware.

Promoting education and research in wind and solar energy conversion technologies.

Gateway to strategic research alliances between the University and to areas of critical concern in industry.

To enhance and foster the teaching, research and academic outreach missions of the University.

An interdisciplinary research organization devoted to the study of learning and instruction in the sciences and mathematics, by performing cognitive research and apply it to the development of curricula to teach science and mathematics concepts and problem solving skills.

Devoted primarily to the characterization and modeling of advanced compound semiconductor materials and devices for optoelectronic applications utilizing fancy lasers.

Partial scan/BIST insertion, testable core synthesis, FPGA testing, and software testing techniques for hardware validation.

The research arm of the Department of Sociology, with a broadly defined mission to support the social and demographic research endeavors of affiliated faculty and researchers.

An innovative program to launch Massachusetts as a national leader in promoting the growth of new environmental and energy-efficient technologies. STEP arose out of a desire to reduce the many uncertainties facing innovative environmental technology companies.

Provides public agencies and private industries with a central access point to the campus's environmental research expertise.

Playing a leading role in developing unique microwave and millimeter-wave sensors. Such sensors can observe the earth's surface through clouds and rain, twenty-four hours a day, allowing scientists to assess geophysical processes synoptically over extended time periods, under a wide variety of atmospheric conditions.

Developing techniques for the design and analysis of multivariable feedback systems, through the design of robust control systems that minimize the performance degradation due to uncertain parameters, unmodeled dynamics and nonlinearities.

Dedicated to the development of low noise THz receivers and detectors.

Educational programs, calendar of events, and employment opportunities for this public service.

A gateway to the resources of the campus, for the people of Massachusetts.

Coordinating VLSI design, CAD tool development and communication system design, in the hope that the design of chips, systems and CAD tools can be tightly coupled for specific applications.

One of 54 centers and institutes nationwide belonging to the National Institutes for Water Resources.

Consists of faculty and staff members at Amherst and other collaborating institutions. Engaged since the late 1960's in research, teaching and public service on freshwater and marine wetlands ecology and management.

Studying the theory and implementation of solutions to systems-level problems in communications through the design and analysis of coding, modulation, and equalization schemes for highly bandwidth efficient wireless communication systems.

Researching yield models and their verification, yield analysis and estimation techniques, yield enhancement schemes, and reliability and parametric yield.