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.
Assoc. Prof. Comfort Enah, who holds the new Donna Manning Endowed Chair in the Solomont School of Nursing, knows about disparate health outcomes in low-income countries and communities.
She saw those disparities growing up in Cameroon, and then again as a student at Berea College, located in the heart of Appalachia.
Because Isaiah Langa ’20 studies finance in the Manning School of Business and has been investing on his own for several years, he occasionally receives a text message from a friend or relative seeking advice on a stock pick.
On February 17, 2021, UMass Dartmouth earned the prestigious Gold award rank as part of its 2021-2022 Military Friendly® School designation by the eponymous organization Military Friendly®.
Dr. Long-Bellil is assistant professor of family medicine & community health and research consultant for Commonwealth Medicine, where she has directed research, policy and training projects related to health and employment of persons with disabilities for nearly two decades.
“Dr. Long-Bellil’s impact extends across our medical school and broader health care communities,” said Chancellor Collins, during the virtual event. “The arc of Linda’s career is connected by a single mission: to enhance health care experiences and the quality of life for people with disabilities. “
School of Medicine student Kassandra Jean-Marie, SOM ’24, credits the UMass Baccalaureate MD Pathway Program for helping her pursue a medical degree and increase diversity in the medical field, according to an NBC10-Boston feature on the program.
AMHERST, Mass. – While the internet is often heralded as an equalizer, a seemingly level playing field, the digital world also acts as an extension of and platform for the insidious prejudices and divisive impulses that affect social politics in the “real” world. Similarly, online dating was heralded as a way to democratize courtship, but a new book co-authored by University of Massachusetts Amherst sociologist Jennifer Lundquist illustrates how it actually exacerbates racial divisions.
AMHERST, Mass. – To build a universal quantum computer from fragile quantum components, effective implementation of quantum error correction (QEC) is an essential requirement and a central challenge. QEC is used in quantum computing, which has the potential to solve scientific problems beyond the scope of supercomputers, to protect quantum information from errors due to various noise.