What do successful rock 'n’ roll bands have in common with hard-charging entrepreneurs who reach the top echelons of business?
A willingness to fail, to regroup and to try again, said Greg Harris, president and CEO of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame who moderated a virtual event on music and entrepreneurship hosted by the UMass Lowell’s Innovation Hub. It’s about adaptation, and developing the depth to withstand failure.
Last spring, after COVID-19 shut down the campus, education Ph.D. student Sharifa Djurabaeva was feeling isolated. She had finished all of her classes and was starting the long, hard solo work of completing her dissertation.
“I was getting so frustrated just sitting in one room,” she says. “I also wanted to socialize.”
A Message from the President
Applied science research is a vital part of what the University of Massachusetts is all about. It’s been programmed in our DNA since the very beginning.
For years, the state of the university address has been an opportunity to celebrate our progress with students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends all tightly gathered in a large room.
That, of course, is not possible this year, and so we’ve adjusted, just as we’ve learned to adjust in nearly every facet of our lives as a result of the pandemic.
BOSTON – University of Massachusetts President Marty Meehan announced today that he would recommend that the university’s Board of Trustees freeze tuition for in-state undergraduates for the academic year beginning in September. If approved by the UMass Board, this would be the second straight year of a tuition freeze at the Commonwealth’s 75,000-student national public research university system.
University of Massachusetts campuses are deploying the energy, expertise, and ingenuity of students, faculty and staff in support of the Commonwealth’s COVID-19 vaccination effort.
In video message, President Meehan emphasizes the multiple ways UMass has “answered the call” in its response to COVID-19
"On behalf of the 75,000 students, 18,000 faculty and staff, half million-plus alumni of the University of Massachusetts, we extend our gratitude to the Massachusetts Congressional delegation for its support of the American Rescue Plan Act. The funding it provides to our campuses and students will be critical in our efforts to sustain our mission of teaching, research and service, which will help drive the post-pandemic economic recovery of the Commonwealth.
The entire University of Massachusetts community mourns the loss of Joseph D. Duffey, the distinguished former UMass Amherst chancellor and UMass president who fought for excellence in public higher education and for peace and justice in our society.
A year ago, when Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences researcher Margaret Quinn began work on a $2.48 million federal grant to make home health care safer for caregivers and patients alike, she had no idea she’d b