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.
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.
Office moves were being scheduled and final touches were being put on the university’s new Graduate and Professional Studies Center in March when the coronavirus pandemic abruptly shut down the campus.
UMass Lowell is one the “Coolest Schools” in the country, according to Sierra magazine’s annual ranking of North America’s greenest colleges and universities.
UML placed 16th on this year’s list, its highest ranking ever. This is the first time the university has cracked the top 20; it was No. 28 last year and No. 165 as recently as 2016.
This year marks milestone anniversaries for voting rights. It’s been 150 years since the passage of the 15th Amendment to the Constitution, which granted Black men the right to vote, and 100 years since the franchise was extended to women through the 19th Amendment.
The annual UMass Medical School Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration took place virtually Wednesday, Sept. 23, with a live, online panel discussion. The event was part of the campus diversity and inclusion fall programming.
Milagros Rosal, PhD, professor of population & quantitative health sciences and vice provost for health equity, moderated the discussion.
Pranitha Vangala, PhD, GSBS ’20, is lead author of a study published in the journal Molecular Cell, in which she and colleagues present a predictive model of gene expression.
UMass Medical School neuropsychiatry expert and educator Sheldon Benjamin, MD, is an invited co-author of the new American Psychiatric Association Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Patients with Schizophrenia. The first update of the publication in 16 years provides evidence-based recommendations vetted by 13 experts to reduce the mortality, morbidity and significant psychosocial and health consequences of the illness, one of the top 20 causes of disability worldwide.