AMHERST, Mass. – A greater understanding of why expectant mothers choose to use cannabis during their pregnancies, and how they take the drug, are key for health care workers to be able to determine a course of support, according to a new article authored by Devon Greyson of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Sio Gene Therapies, a company focused on developing gene therapies to radically transform the lives of patients with neurodegenerative diseases, announced that the first patient with infantile Tay-Sachs disease has been dosed in a Phase I/II trial evaluating AXO-AAV-GM2, an investigational gene therapy for the treatment of GM2 gangliosidosis, which causes Tay-Sachs and Sandhoff diseases.
A new Graduate School of Nursing initiative is putting Doctor of Nursing Practice and PhD students at the head of the class to serve as role models for their peers.
Jacqueline Mbugua, a student in the GSN Graduate Entry Pathway program, is one of the first to serve as a teaching associate and she is bringing her unique perspective to the role. The Kenya native is a staff sergeant in the Air National Guard and previously taught biology at Bristol Community College in Fall River as an associate professor for 10 years.
Now that the new Biden administration has made tackling climate change a top priority, researchers from UMass Lowell are helping policymakers better understand why the issue is so urgent.
Director of UMass Boston’s Center for Governance and Sustainability and McCormack Graduate School Associate Professor Maria Ivanova has been appointed for a four-year term to the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Joint Scientific Committee (JSC). WCRP facilitates and coordinates international climate science research, and JSC leads the scientific direction of the programme.
Two faculty members have transformed UMass Boston’s stretch of the HarborWalk into a meditative Grace Trail®.
On January 28, 2021, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts honored UMass Dartmouth Director of Health Services Marianne Sullivan and Director of the Fitness Center Greg Homol as the recipients of the 2020 Manuel Carballo Governor's Award for Excellence in Public Service during the virtual 36th Annual Performance Recognition Program. Sullivan and Homol received the award for their outstanding efforts in the design, implementation, and daily execution of the UMass Dartmouth on-campus testing facility.
Resilience is the capacity of a system to absorb a shock and recover from it without a significant loss of performance. For civil infrastructure systems subject to extreme events, this performance is the functional integrity of lifeline infrastructures (power, transportation, water, etc.) and other buildings and structures comprising the built environment.
Kevin Stokesbury, Professor of Fisheries Oceanography at UMass Dartmouth’s School for Marine Science & Technology (SMAST), has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on the Assessment and Advancement of Science in the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's (BOEM) Environmental Studies Program.
In the United States, February is designated as “Black History Month”, a time when Americans of all walks of life honor and appreciate the contributions of Americans of African descent in the areas of science and medicine, philosophy, law, literature, politics, visual and performing arts, athletics, music and more. From George Washington Carver to Dr. Mae C. Jemison; from Phillis Wheatley to James Baldwin; from Charlotte E.