Air National Guard Brig. Gen. Sean Collins, PhD’09, has been named a member of the Board of Trustees for the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke. Dr. Collins, assistant professor of nursing, was tapped for his extensive leadership, clinical research, military health care and advanced practice nursing expertise. He has been an advanced practice nurse and nursing researcher for more than 30 years and is at the height of a decorated two-decade plus military career.
If someone breaks a leg during a hike in the woods, how does a bystander respond? What can be done to help? These are the questions that a group of second-year School of Medicine students are helping to answer in their wilderness medicine optional enrichment elective.
A UMass Medical School researcher is leading a new study to evaluate the use of telehealth to improve suicide-related outcomes.
The four-year, $4.4 million National Institute of Mental Health effectiveness-implementation trial, called Telehealth to Improve Prevention of Suicide (TIPS) in emergency departments, focuses on interventions in community or rural hospitals. But these protocols could also be used in any emergency care setting, especially those without readily available mental health specialists.
BOSTON – Reflecting its historic mission of creating and disseminating knowledge, the University of Massachusetts is set to host online forums where UMass research scientists will discuss major innovations with representatives from business, industry and government. Each forum will focus on areas of UMass expertise with applications that will accelerate the post-pandemic economic recovery.
A potential therapeutic against hookworms is being developed by scientists from UMass Medical School, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, the USDA Agricultural Research Service and the Synthetic Biomanufacturing Facility at Utah State University.
Four teams of UMass Medical School students have been awarded Martin Luther King Jr. Semester of Service Awards to implement community service programs. They will use the $500 awards to expand support for adult refugees from Burma; offset elders’ isolation during COVID; expand training for stopping life-threatening bleeding; and assist asylum seekers with trained medical interpreters for forensic evaluations.
Understanding, treating and preventing disease has interested Angela Essa, SOM ’23, for years. She was intrigued by human anatomy and physiology classes from high school through her undergraduate years at UMass Amherst. She got involved in laboratory research early on, participating in honors-level programs that placed her in engaging, hands-on projects.
UMass Dartmouth’s Accounting program, offered by the Charlton College of Business, tops Best Value Schools’ list of “11 Fastest Accounting Degrees in 2021.” The program has been ranked #2 based on:
A newly released National Science Foundation-funded report by UMass Boston researchers finds that 1 in 5 Bostonians plan to not get vaccinated, nearly half of Black Bostonians say they have little or no interest in receiving the COVID-19 vaccine when it becomes available, and more than a quarter of Hispanics say the same. A quarter of women also say they will not get the vaccine.
AMHERST, Mass. – A team of biophysicists from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Penn State College of Medicine set out to tackle the long-standing question about the nature of force generation by myosin, the molecular motor responsible for muscle contraction and many other cellular processes. The key question they addressed – one of the most controversial topics in the field – was: how does myosin convert chemical energy, in the form of ATP, into mechanical work?