Matthew Steffens, UMass food science, is quoted extensively in an article detailing the many uses of corn starch in the kitchen and in various household uses.
News from the Media
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Cornstarch Can Change Your Life, In And Out Of The Kitchen
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Fight Continues to Preserve Great Northern Elevator Despite Court Ruling
January 23, 2022Michael Di Pasquale, UMass Extension Assistant Professor, is quoted about historic preservation and placemaking in Post-Industrial Legacy Cities.
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Beavers Offer Lessons about Managing Water in a Changing Climate
January 21, 2022Christine Hatch, geosciences, wrote an article for The Conversation enumerating the value of beavers’ small-scale natural interventions in the era of climate change.
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Putting the Farming into Solar Farms
January 4, 2022In an opinion piece about agrisolar farms, a Northfield farmer notes that “UMass Amherst provides oversight to ensure that agrisolar systems will meet the needs of real, commercial agriculture.”
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Yes, There Are Plants That Still Bloom in the Dead of Winter
January 4, 2022Tips from the UMass Extension Landscape, Nursery and Urban Forestry Program on growing witch hazel are cited in an article about growing plants in winter.
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Here’s the Beef: More Protein, Calories and Fat in Meat Burgers
December 21, 2021Data compiled and analyzed by a team led by Alissa Nolden, UMass food science, compared nutritional aspects of beef and alternative burgers available to U.S. consumers.
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Xing Finds Steam Disinfection of Baby Bottle Nipples Exposes Babies to Micro- and Nanoplastic Particles
December 1, 2021New research from collaborating scientists at UMass Amherst and Nanjing University in China found that steam disinfection of silicone-rubber baby bottle nipples exposes babies and the environment to micro- and nanoplastic particles.
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Fishing Guides React to Shark Depredation on Hooked Fish, Danylchuk Researches
December 1, 2021UMass Amherst researchers have found that anglers, and especially recreational fishing guides, who experienced depredation were more likely to have a negative response towards sharks and were thus more likely to target sharks for additional harvesting.
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Climate Change is Impacting Cranberry Harvest
November 30, 2021Hilary Sandler, extension professor, and director of UMass Cranberry Station, explains challenges to cranberry growers during climate change while interviewed on a national TV news segment. Warmer weather and record rainfall caused by climate change are making the berries grow more slowly.
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Making Cranberries More Resilient To Climate Change
November 30, 2021Hillary Sandler, extension professor and director of the UMass Cranberry Station, is quoted in a story examining the ways that growers are trying to make cranberries more resilient to climate change.
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Ticks Remain a Theat on Cape Cod
November 22, 2021There is a continuing threat of ticks and the danger of the diseases they carry notes that Stephen Rich, microbiology. His tick testing lab recently had to increase prices for having ticks tested for diseases due to an expiration of the grants that helped subsidize the costs.
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UMass Food Science and Agriculture Programs Rank Two of the Best in the World
November 8, 2021UMass Amherst’s food science program and agriculture program were ranked as two of the best in the world, according to the U.S. News & World Report’s 2022 global subject rankings.
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Peak Foilage Affected by Excessive Rain and More
November 8, 2021Rick Harper, environmental conservation, in a TV news story about this year’s excessive fall rain dulling foliage colors, explains that peak foliage time is also happening later.
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Rainy Summer Devastated Mass. Pumpkins and Other Crops
November 1, 2021Genevieve Higgins, UMass Extension Vegetable Program, is quoted in a story about how this year’s record-setting rains in parts of Massachusetts have promoted the growth of pathogens that have devastated crops including pumpkins and cranberries.
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Study Affirms Bright Future for Blue Economy
October 25, 2021UMass Amherst’s Gloucester Marine Station (GMS): Phase 1 conclusions of a study led by the GMS about the importance and impact of the Blue Economy on North Shore communities found that now is the time for the communities to use their unique strengths to build resilient, sustainable and equitable maritime economic development while also promoting and sustaining ocean ecosystem health.
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UMass Amherst Holds Construction Celebration for Cranberry Station Expansion in East Wareham
October 25, 2021A $7.75 million project to expand and modernize the UMass Amherst Cranberry Station, an important research facility for the commonwealth’s cranberry industry, was celebrated Oct. 22 with a construction celebration event at the station in East Wareham, Mass.
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Huge Numbers of Fish-Eating Jaguars Prowl Brazil’s Wetlands
October 13, 2021Todd Fuller, professor and Associate Department Head environmental conservation, is quoted in an article revealing new findings about the unusual flexibility in diet and lifestyle of jaguars in the Brazilian wetlands.
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Drinking Our Way To Sustainability, One Cup Of Coffee At A Time
October 8, 2021Coffee, that savior of the underslept, comes with enormous environmental and social costs. Thanks to a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant of $979,720, Timothy Randhir, University of Massachusetts Amherst professor of environmental conservation, and David King, of the USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station, will embark upon a five-year effort to make Honduran coffee sustainable across environmental, economic and social fronts.
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Locals Can Help Thwart Invasive Jumping Worms Found in Forests, Gardens
October 8, 2021An article describes how local residents can thwart a destructive and invasive species known as jumping worms extensively quotes from fact sheets recently published by the Center for Food, Agriculture and the Environment.
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Winter Prediction on the Amount of Acorns
October 7, 2021Rick Harper, environmental conservation, explains the causes of the current "mast year" for oak trees, resulting in a larger production of acorns.
