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Research from @CAFE_UMass's RiverSmart Communities project shows how beaver-created wetlands can keep stream corridors lush and damp, creating natural buffers that are resistant to wildfires and providing refuge for wildlife. @EconomicTimesumass.edu/natural-scienc…
@NSF has awarded the National Data Platform (NDP) a $24.5M cooperative agreement to build a federated, AI-ready national data ecosystem, and Rafael Coelho Lopes de Sa of @UMassPhysics is leading the development and deployment of the NDP connector nodes.
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Margaret “Peg” Riley, a professor in @CNS_UMass’s Department of Biology, published a new textbook, “The Human Microbiome in Health and Disease: An Introduction,” through Princeton University Press.
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