Two research projects led by UMass Boston faculty were selected to receive awards totaling $1.1 million during the most recent funding cycle of the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC).
MLSC’s Bits to Bytes program, which provides grants for projects that generate and analyze large datasets to answer pressing life science questions, awarded the Oregon-Massachusetts Mammography Database (OMAMA-DB) $750,000. The project is led by Assistant Professor of Computer Science Daniel Haehn.
In a report released today, the Sustainable Solutions Lab (SSL) at UMass Boston shared public opinion data that includes a large sampling of people of color in the Boston area. By capturing a full range of views on climate change across racial groups, that survey data establish a baseline set of inclusive perspectives from which climate stakeholders can measure change over time.
UMass Dartmouth proudly welcomes a virtual talk by Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings titled “Educating for Diversity in the Midst of Pandemics." The online event takes place Wednesday, October 14 from 3:00-5:00 p.m.
It’s the busy season for Josh Dyck, director of the Center for Public Opinion at UMass Lowell.
Dana Ibrahim knows what students are going through right now.
What do Division I student-athletes do with their competitive energy when a global pandemic forces them to take a time-out from their sports?
At UMass Lowell, they channel their competitiveness toward a new goal: getting as many of their fellow students as possible to vote in the upcoming election.
While most people have seen their worlds shrink since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Shanice Kelly and Michele Woodland have set their sights on the stars and an ever-expanding universe.
The two friends, both aspiring space scientists and Honors College students, work at the new Schueller Astronomical Observatory on South Campus, which they were preparing for its grand opening in April – before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the campus.
Maira Castañeda Avila, PhD candidate in the Clinical & Population Health Research Program of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, recently received the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Individual Predoctoral Fellowship to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research, funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) within the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Yiyang Yuan, PhD candidate in the Clinical & Population Health Research Program in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, received a fellowship award from the National Institutes of Health to support research examining the association between physical frailty, cognitive impairment and depression in older adults.
Inscribed with dozens of veterans’ signatures, the final steel beam was placed atop the new community-based outpatient clinic (CBOC) for veterans under construction on the UMass Medical School campus in Worcester during a small topping off ceremony on Wednesday, Oct. 7. This construction milestone means veterans will be on campus getting care by this time next year.