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).
In opening the virtual forum, Standing in Our Power: Women of Color Leading Change, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley delivered a strong challenge to participants: “Stand unapologetically in your power and use it to demand the change we need and deserve.”
“Your voice and your passion are so critically needed as we work to build a country that finally affirms equity and justice for every person in our society,” Pressley told the more than 150 women in attendance on September 19.
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, associate professor of English and director of UMass Boston’s MFA in Creative Writing Program, has made the long list for the 2020 National Book Award in Poetry with their latest collection, Travesty Generator.
Today, UMass Dartmouth announced a partnership with the Climate Mayors Electric Vehicle Purchasing Collaborative and has committed to purchase 2 electric vehicles (EVs) by 2021. In doing so, the University joins nearly a dozen universities and colleges and 225 fleets around the country pledging to purchase almost 3,800 EVs. The entirety of the electric vehicle fleet commitments made through the Collaborative will save nearly 28 million tons of CO2 emissions annually, avoid 1.7 million gallons of gas per year, and represent a total of $123.5 million investment in EVs.