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Innovative Research
"The University of Massachusetts is a high-quality, highly-engaged public research university that provides talent and innovation across the state."
Jack M. Wilson
President, University of Massachusetts
UMass Boston's research capacities are critical to the region's response to new global competition in research and innovation. In 2006-2007, Battelle Technology Partnership Practice, the nation’s largest nonprofit research and development organization, was commissioned to study the university's research initiatives and extramural sponsored program activity. By nearly all measures of research activity — such as publications, funding, and doctorates awarded —- UMass Boston is expanding its research base by leaps and bounds. We are well positioned to advance a varied and robust set of opportunities that involve interdisciplinary applied and basic research. Our strengths include:
- urban health and public policy, including obesity research;
- developmental sciences, with significant work in autism;
- science and math education and learning research;
- transnational, cultural, and community studies;
- computational sciences, analysis and modeling;
- integrated environmental monitoring;
- biological systems and technology; and
- socially and environmentally sustainable ventures.
Research Reenvisioned for the 21st Century directs the UMass Boston research enterprise to invest in identified strategic opportunities that can offer collaboration and generate new economic and social benefits for the Boston region. The report affirms the university's research strengths and demonstrates the promise of expanding research scholarship that will engage creative activity for students who want first-rate learning and research opportunities.
We are hiring new faculty and staff in strategic areas, and thinking and working in imaginative ways to tackle key questions, through our Venture Development Center and other venues. Learn more about research and how it is growing at UMass Boston. If you are a potential business partner looking to license the university’s intellectual property, contact Susan Daudelin, director of industry relations, at 617.287.5710 .Your gifts to the university provide the margin of difference to seed new ideas and grow innovative responses. To explore how you can advance UMass Boston's research mission, contact Darrell C. Byers, vice chancellor for university advancement at 617.287.5323.
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