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.

Kevin Gao, an MD/PhD candidate in the Medical Scientist Training Program, has received a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Predoctoral Fellowship from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health.

AMHERST, Mass. – The University of Massachusetts Amherst has again been recognized as one of the top 40 campuses in the country for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) students by Campus Pride, a national LGBTQ youth support and advocacy organization.

AMHERST, Mass. – Researchers at the Engineering Research Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA) contributed to a recent successful joint demonstration in Fort Worth, Texas, of an unmanned aircraft system by Bell Textron Inc. and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).