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.
Mary Callery O’Brien, MD, assistant professor of medicine, has been honored by the Massachusetts Medical Society with the 2020 Grant V. Rodkey Award. The beloved teacher was elected by student members of the medical society to receive the award which recognizes a Massachusetts physician for outstanding contributions to medical education and medical students.
UMass Medical School researchers have been awarded a $3.3 million, four-year National Institute on Aging grant to explore new understanding of how the gut microbiome influences cognitive functioning among elders living with Alzheimer’s disease.
A research letter published in JAMA Internal Medicine Sept. 28, co-authored by a UMass Medical School MD/PhD student, reports that older adults were likely to be excluded from more than half of COVID-19 clinical trials and 100 percent of vaccine trials initiated early in the pandemic.
Racial disparities in utilization and outcomes of total joint arthroplasty, one of the most common surgical procedures performed in the United States, have persisted for 30 years, according to UMass Medical School researcher Shao-Hsien Liu, PhD. But little is known about what drives these disparities.
The Diversity & Inclusion Office and the International Committee relaunched the storytelling series “UMass Immigrant Stories: Everyone is Included in our Community” on Tuesday, Sept. 29, with Raúl Padrón, PhD, of UMass Medical School, and Francis Wanjau, of UMass Memorial Health Care, sharing their stories over Zoom.