Barbara Osborne, veterinary and animal sciences, and a small team of her colleagues involved in the startup medical research firm HasenTech recently were awarded two grants to advance their investigation of an exopolysaccharide (EPS), a sugar found on the surface of the bacterium Bacillis subilis. It can suppress an immune response and if translatable to use in humans, it holds promise of offering a new treatment for such conditions as irritable bowel disease (IBD) and other autoimmune diseases.
AMHERST, Mass. – Among seismologists, the geology of Alaska’s earthquake- and volcano-rich coast from the Aleutian Islands to the southeast is fascinating, but not well understood. Now, with more sophisticated tools than before, a University of Massachusetts Amherst team reports unexpected new details about the area’s tectonic plates and their relationships to volcanoes.
AMHERST, Mass. – Three University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), an honor bestowed upon members by their peers to recognize their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. The three are:
Standing with her camera on the Northern Canal bridge on East Campus, Meagan Timmins ’20 couldn’t imagine someone cooling off on a hot summer day by leaping from the roof of a three-story tenement into the canal below.
But that’s one of the stories that Timmins heard while working on her Honors College capstone project: a “then and now” video about the Little Canada neighborhood that once stood on UML’s East Campus.
For Jiabin Shen, an assistant professor of psychology, a new grant from the National institutes of Health is the latest step in a long march toward improving the quality of life for children and adolescents suffering brain injuries through the use of technology and developmental psychology.
Shen’s latest federal research grant is a three-year, $713,112 package that will explore the use of virtual reality-based rehabilitation for children who have suffered traumatic brain injuries (TBIs).
Whether it’s founding a nationally renowned research center for wind energy or recruiting students for an underwater hockey team, Mechanical Engineering Prof. and Dept. Chair Christopher Niezrecki has a knack for bringing people together.
On December 2, shark research groups and government agencies from the northeastern US and Canada announced the establishment of the New England White Shark Research Consortium (NEWSRC). The consortium provides the first-ever collaboration of these entities to jointly study the white shark (Carchardon carcharias) throughout its entire northeast US-Canadian range.
Many writers find it difficult to express themselves in only a few words, but Brianna McCadden managed to perfectly capture 2020 in just six.
On Thursday, the undergraduate English major took the top prize in this year’s Six-Word Story Contest for her entry: “She’s forgetting the feeling of hugs.”
The University of Massachusetts Boston has received a new $1.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to advance its work as an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution (AANAPISI). The five-year grant further strengthens UMass Boston’s capacity as the only AANAPISI-designated research university in New England and one of a handful in the country—a status held by the university since 2008.
UMass Boston and Northeastern University researchers have launched Living in Boston During COVID-19, a series of reports analyzing a survey conducted in the summer about how Boston residents have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic. The findings are unique in that they provide insight to understanding how activities, attitudes, and experiences of Bostonians during the pandemic have varied--by neighborhood, by race, by income.