When members of UMass Boston’s Run for Krystle team first heard the news, they were devastated. For the first time in the history of the Boston Marathon, the race, with its throngs of cheering fans and ascent up the famed Heartbreak Hill, was canceled. After first being postponed, the marathon would be held virtually.
The National Science Foundation recently awarded Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Hangjian Ling with a $299,778 grant for his project “Mechanism of gas depletion on super-hydrophobic surfaces in turbulent flows”.
Born and raised on Cape Cod, Ryan Barrette, SOM ’21, knew he would have a future in medicine after witnessing the care given to his cousin, Terence McMahon, who was born with a rare genetic disorder called DiGeorge syndrome. Watching him work with specialists, undergo surgeries and manage routine doctor’s visits, Barrette was inspired to someday give that same care to others.
Chancellor Michael F. Collins is urging the UMass Medical School community to stay home this Thanksgiving and virtually celebrate the holiday with family and friends to minimize spread of COVID-19. With virus spread at record levels across the country and rising, the Centers for Disease Control says people should avoid travel and restrict meals to only people who live in the same household.
AMHERST, Mass. – A University of Massachusetts Amherst researcher has teamed up with a researcher at Michigan Technological University to develop a method using proteins to keep vaccines stable without the need to refrigerate them.
As the COVID-19 pandemic reached its first peak during the spring, and the university entered remote modality, a group of academic advisors and faculty began to see a troubling increase in Latinx students seeking emergency help and support.
There was confusion over e-learning modalities, difficulty communicating with professors, lack of technology and study space, depression and anxiety, loss of income, and many other issues reported.
Oak Ridge National Lab's Summit supercomputer is the fastest in America and Professor Sigal Gottlieb (Mathematics) and Professor Gaurav Khanna (Physics) are getting a chance to test its power.
The system, built by IBM, can perform 200 quadrillion calculations in one second. Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, the Summit supercomputer consists of 9,216 POWER9 processors, 27,648 Nvidia Tesla graphics processing units, and consumes 13 MW of power.
Karin Loach ’11, ’20 is an eighth-grade science teacher in Auburn, Mass., and when the state updated its science curriculum in 2016, she began hearing that elementary school teachers felt woefully unprepared to teach it.
She wondered why – and she also began thinking more deeply about how well their students understood basic scientific concepts and methods when they began middle school.
Dangling by his arms from a red corkscrew high above the water, former UMass Lowell hockey player Barry Goers ’10 contemplated his next move.
Goers could laché — the term for swinging from one bar to another — laterally by as much as 10 feet. But the next corkscrew he needed to reach on the “American Ninja Warrior” obstacle course was not only 5 feet away, but also about 3 feet up.
When he was accepted at UMass Lowell, honors exercise science major Andreas Himariotis was awarded an Immersive Scholarship, which pays for students to do research or study abroad after their first year of college.