The College of Natural Sciences & Mathematics is now officially the College of Natural Sciences (CNS). For more information, please go to http://www.cns.umass.edu.
Research Centers & Institutes
NSM has a wide range of institutes and centers for research and teaching.
NSM Research Centers & Institutes
- Center for Educational Software Development (CESD) Develops nanostructured materials to manufacture new next generation devices to enhance information processing, energy conversion, and human health.
- Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing (NSEC)
- Center for Geometry, Analysis, Numerics and Graphics (GANG) Computes, visualizes and experiments with geometric objects.
- Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR) Develops tools for effective and efficient access to large networks of heterogeneous, multimedia information.
- Center for Knowledge Communications (CKC) Develops advanced computational and artificial intelligence techniques for teaching and learning systems.
- Climate Systems Research Center (CSRS) Focuses on climate system and variability and global change using contemporary, paleoclimatic, and paleoenvironmental data.
- Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) Focuses on fundamental research for improvement of harvesting solar energy as electricity using organic and organic/inorganic-hybrid polymers and materials.
- Fueling the Future Center for Chemical Innovation (CCI) Focuses on research that addresses fundamental aspects of proton transport to design better fuel cell membranes.
- Massachusetts Center for Renewable Science and Technology (MassCREST) Generate efficient solar and fuel cells, produces hydrogen from water, and develops catalysts that convert biomass to hydrocarbon fuel and biofuels.
- Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) 34 faculty dedicated to interdisciplinary education and research in polymer science.
- Scientific Reasoning Research Institute (SRRI) Conducts and applies research on reasoning and cognitive processes to improve science and mathematics education.
- Natural History Collections and Museum Houses more than 300,000 specimens of mammals, birds, invertebrates, plants, fishes, reptiles and amphibians.
Develops nanostructured materials to manufacture new next generation devices to enhance information processing, energy conversion, and human health.
Affiliated Centers & Institutes
- Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA) Develops revolutionary weather-sensing networks and works with industry and government partners.
- Center of Excellence in Apoptosis Research (CEAR) Focuses on identifying and regulating signaling pathways that regulate cell death in tissue.
- Commonwealth Alliance for Information Technology Education (CAITE) Designs and executes comprehensive programs that address under representation in information technology education and the workforce.
- Institute for Cellular Engineering Focuses on coordinating and expanding cellular engineering educational and scholarly activities and translational research through strategic industry partnerships.
- Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT) NSM-Mexico project for world’s largest single dish telescope operating at millimeter wavelengths.
- MassNanoTech Coordinates research on nanoscale materials, devices and systems, advances commercialization and industry partnerships, and fosters education and outreach.
- Pioneer Valley Life Science Institute UMass Amherst/ Baystate Medical Center partnership connects interdisciplinary biomedical research teams of life and physical scientists, engineers, and physicians.
