The College of Nursing at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently was awarded a five-year, $1.23 million grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research to create a new center where scientists will develop technologies to help people with chronic illness manage fatigue and impaired sleep.

According to a university announcement, the campus UManage Center to Build the Science of Symptom Self-Management will study the use of wearable or handheld devices to monitor fatigue or sleep pattern changes.