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Riccio College of Engineering, UMass Amherst @umassengineering.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Congratulations to the 2026 Riccio College of Engineering Outstanding Alumni Award recipients! These eleven alumni exemplify innovation, dedication, and leadership, using their engineering expertise to shape a better future in Massachusetts and beyond. Learn more: www.umass.edu/engineering/...

The recipients of the 2026 Outstanding Alumni Awards

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Riccio College of Engineering, UMass Amherst @umassengineering.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Thank you to everyone who attended our Graduate Research Symposium in the @umassamherst.bsky.social Student Union Ballroom on Tuesday! It was a wonderful celebration of our vibrant graduate student research community.

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Riccio College of Engineering, UMass Amherst @umassengineering.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

We are excited to celebrate Engineers Week 2025: Design Your Future here at UMass Amherst! This year's theme—"Design Your Future"—is also at the core of our work here in the College of Engineering, and throughout the week we will be highlighting the innovative research of our UMass engineers.

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Riccio College of Engineering, UMass Amherst @umassengineering.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Nine UMass Amherst faculty and staff, including CoE's Sundar Krishnamurty were recently recognized for their contributions to the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded I-Corps @ UMass. Read more: www.umass.edu/news/article...

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Riccio College of Engineering, UMass Amherst @umassengineering.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

UMass Amherst team of scientists has made patient-friendly advances in developing a non-toxic bacterial therapy, to deliver cancer-fighting drugs directly into tumors. Read more: www.umass.edu/news/article...

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Riccio College of Engineering, UMass Amherst @umassengineering.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

ECE alum Eric Swanson ‘82, is among the 2025 class of National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductees. In partnership with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the NIHF will honor this class on May 8. Read the full story: www.umass.edu/engineering/news/swanson-joins-national-inventors-hall-fame

Eric Swanson, color photo of a man wearing a blue shirt and blazer looking at the camera with frames on the wall behind him

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Riccio College of Engineering, UMass Amherst @umassengineering.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Claire Walko, a senior chemical engineering major, won the Outstanding Presentation Award at the 2024 Gulf Coast Undergraduate Research Symposium. Her research focuses on resolving the environmental issues surrounding the production of ammonia. Read the full story: www.umass.edu/engineering/...

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Riccio College of Engineering, UMass Amherst @umassengineering.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

A new study has mapped 35 years of river changes on a global scale. “We think this is maybe the most accurate map of river flow ever made,” notes co-author Colin Gleason, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at UMass Amherst. Read the full story: www.umass.edu/news/article...

These maps illustrates significant changes in 6,167 reaches of the largest rivers on earth—44.2% saw decreases in streamflow and 11.9% saw increases over 35 years. Of nearly 1.5 million of the smallest, upstream rivers on earth, 17% of rivers saw a 1-5% increase in streamflow (blue) while 9.9% saw a decrease (red) over 35 years.

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Riccio College of Engineering, UMass Amherst @umassengineering.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Six students—Florian Sabatini, Ben Hyjek, Sam Levitt, Devan Yarberry, Alex Bagley, and Lorelei Hetzler—from the College of Engineering won prizes at the recent UMass Amherst Tech Challenge. Read the full story: www.umass.edu/engineering/...

Florian Sabatini and Ben Hyjek of Diel Technologies

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Riccio College of Engineering, UMass Amherst @umassengineering.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Three College of Engineering undergraduates—Raul Vera III, Alexandra Katsoulakis, and Lily Bigelow—have been named Fall 2024 UMass Amherst Rising Researchers for their exceptional impact and promise in the lab. Read the full story: www.umass.edu/engineering/...

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Riccio College of Engineering, UMass Amherst @umassengineering.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Yahya Modarres-Sadeghi (@thefsilab.bsky.social), Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at UMass Amherst, is the PI on two new NSF grants in support of his research on two different aspects of fluid-structure-interaction problems. Read the full story: www.umass.edu/engineering/...

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