AMHERST, Mass. – More than one-third of the Corn Belt in the Midwest – nearly 100 million acres – has completely lost its carbon-rich topsoil, according to University of Massachusetts Amherst research that indicates the U.S. Department of Agriculture has significantly underestimated the true magnitude of farmland erosion.
UMass Medical School, in partnership with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the City of Worcester, Worcester State University and Saint Vincent Hospital, will play an integral role in a COVID-19 mass vaccination site that will open later this month on the campus of Worcester State. The site is expected to be open on or about February 16.
Six School of Medicine Class of 2021 students took part in early match programs and recently learned where they will serve their residencies. Two pursued military matches and four chose specialties outside of the National Residency Matching Program general match, which takes place on Friday, March 19.
Breast and prostate cancer screenings declined rapidly in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic compared with the same period a year earlier, according to a new study by UMass Medical School researchers working with Reliant Medical Group. While rates rebounded in June 2020, breast cancer screening rates, unlike prostate testing, stayed well below pre-pandemic levels through the study’s end in October 2020.
A group of students in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences is working to represent and promote inclusion and diversity in higher education. The GSBS Diversity Interest Group is committed to developing a community of students to collaborate through the lens of social justice, equity and advocacy.
The Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center at UMass Medical School has helped launch a new program that helps families experiencing psychiatric emergencies as confinement at home and loss of outside supports during the COVID-19 pandemic have exacerbated behavioral health crises among youth. The Massachusetts Child Psychiatry Access Program for Autism Spectrum Disorder and Intellectual Disabilities or MCPAP for ASD-ID was launched in partnership with the Massachusetts Behavioral Health Partnership with funding from the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services.
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AMHERST, Mass. – The 28th Annual Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival and the 2020-2021 UMass Amherst History Department Feinberg Series co-present an online conversation with the acclaimed director-producer and academic, Cecilia Aldarondo, on Wednesday, Feb. 24 at 7:30 p.m., on her award-winning 2020 documentary film, “Landfall.” The film will stream on-demand from Feb. 19 through March 5. Both the screening and conversation are free and open to the public.
AMHERST, Mass. – Serena Sarage, a native of South Hadley, has realized her two-pronged dream of moving to Colorado and joining the heroic efforts of the nursing workforce during a once-in-a-century pandemic.
Similarly, Melissa Petersen, who grew up in Maine, has been hired as a newly graduated nurse into a residency program to care for seriously ill cardiac patients at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville.
The more UMass Lowell puts into its composting and recycling efforts, the more it continues to get back.
From turning food scraps into compost for campus landscaping to being the first campus in the Northeast to adopt a system that turns organic waste into renewable energy, the university has reaped numerous benefits from its recycling and composting programs, while emerging as a national leader in sustainability in higher education.