UMassMed Cares, the new UMass Medical School employee charitable giving campaign, will begin on Monday, Nov. 2, and continue through Wednesday, Nov. 25. UMassMed Cares replaces the former Commonwealth of Massachusetts Employees Charitable Campaign known as COMECC. The new in-house program’s minimized administrative costs ensure that every dollar contributed goes toward addressing causes close to employees’ hearts.
Surrounded by poppers, cranks, spinners, spoons, jigs and shiners, Manning School of Business senior Ben Kenney flips open his laptop and settles in for class.
Like most students, Kenney is taking his courses remotely this semester because of the coronavirus pandemic. Unlike most students, though, Kenney is taking his online courses while sitting behind the counter of his very own business: Ben’s Tackle Shack.
Thanks to a pair of recent state grants, students, faculty and staff are closer to having a protected, shared-use path when walking or bicycling along Pawtucket Street between South and East campuses.
The “Pawtucket Greenway,” a collaboration between UMass Lowell and the City of Lowell, is one of three pilot projects being implemented with a $165,755 grant the city received from the Massachusetts Department of Transportation’s (MassDOT) Shared Streets and Spaces program.
A new honors seminar, The Science of Energy, is inspiring students from a wide range of majors to get involved in research into renewable energy, in Haiti and on campus.
Like others around the world, Jason Reyes was horrified by the video of George Floyd being killed by Minneapolis police, as well as the Black lives lost before and after. Like many, Reyes struggled to find an outlet for his feelings.
Asst. Prof. of Nursing Mazen El Ghaziri and a colleague have been selected by the National Institute of Corrections to create a workplace training program aimed at improving job health and safety for the nation’s 500,000 correctional officers and staff, who are at high risk of injury, stress, obesity and premature death.
Asst. Prof. of Public Health Serena Rajabiun is leading a team of researchers and community partners that has won a four-year, $3.9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to improve care and treatment coordination for Black women with HIV.
When Emily Crespo joined the River Hawk Scholars Academy (RHSA) three years ago, the first-generation college student from East Boston was just looking for some extra help in navigating her transition to college. That’s what the RHSA offered.
Backed by a $100,000 grant from the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources, UMass Lowell is conducting a campus-wide renewable energy study to take stock of its current infrastructure and map its path to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050.
Research interest in understanding the wetting and spreading phenomena of a droplet landing on a complex shape surface through numerical simulations has risen dramatically since the start of the era of scientific computing and high-speed/definition video camera.