BOSTON – With early voting set to start tomorrow across Massachusetts, student leaders from all five UMass campuses gathered virtually at a voter engagement summit hosted by UMass President Marty Meehan’s office to discuss ongoing engagement efforts and share best practices.
AMHERST, Mass. – The University of Massachusetts Amherst and the Town of Amherst announced today that the University will provide asymptomatic COVID-19 testing for the Town’s first responders and inspectors as part of their joint efforts to deter spread of the novel coronavirus.
Astronomers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst are marking an especially meaningful event this month, as a team led by Professor Peter Schloerb recently received a three-year, $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to provide support for the Large Millimeter Telescope in Mexico and to offer – for the first time – access to it for astronomers from any U.S. institution.
AMHERST, Mass. – Professor Li-Jun Ma, biochemistry and molecular biology, has received support from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute (JGI) Community Science Program (CSP) to conduct in-depth research on a group of soil fungi, Fusaria, that are economically important because they devastate crops – not only food but biofuel feedstocks.
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. An associate professor of political science, Dyck oversees the center’s expanding polling operation, which includes surveys in battleground states this election cycle.
Dana Ibrahim knows what students are going through right now.
As a senior double-majoring in peace and conflict studies and political science, she is taking her courses remotely on Zoom this fall while wondering when the COVID-19 pandemic will ever end.
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.