Black holes are perhaps the most mysterious astrophysical objects in the universe. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Professor Gaurav Khanna of the Physics department a $75,393 grant for his project "Studies of Black Hole Binary Systems Using Time-Domain Perturbation Theory". This newly funded NSF project continues the development of the model that Dr. Khanna has been building for well over a decade on gravitational waves.
A National Science Foundation (NSF) grant that will prepare students for the nation’s high-quality STEM workforce was awarded to Associate Professor of Mathematics Yanlai Chen and colleagues from the Colleges of Arts and Sciences and Engineering. The $650,000 grant will provide awards averaging $5,000 to 80 promising low-income students while ensuring computer-aided problem solving in authentic settings is taught in core STEM courses.
The S-STEM scholars will be selected from the departments of biology, chemistry, computer science, engineering, mathematics, and physics.
BOSTON - The University of Massachusetts today announced the launch of a new system-wide initiative to make courses on each of its campuses available to students on all UMass campuses.
When you exhale through your surgical mask, your breath barely travels a few inches before it is pushed down to the floor by overhead fans and sucked into return vents.
The room’s air is exchanged once every minute through ultra-low particulate filters that block out anything larger than a micron, or one-millionth of a meter. That’s much too fine for respiratory droplets, which measure a relatively rotund 5 to 10 microns.
Eliza Bobek, clinical assistant professor of education, had one child in kindergarten and another in fourth grade when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down schools last spring. Suddenly, her children were home 24/7 and attending classes online.
She also had to continue doing her own job – teaching college students at regular class times – online.
With a growing relationship between the VA Central Western Massachusetts Healthcare System and UMass Medical School in mind, Kristin Mattocks, PhD, MPH, has been appointed to the new position of associate dean for veterans affairs at UMMS, according to Terence R. Flotte, MD, executive deputy chancellor, provost and dean of the School of Medicine.
UMass Medical School has announced six members of the Medical School faculty who comprise the 2020-21 cohort of Dr. Marcellette G. Williams Distinguished Scholars, according to Chancellor Michael F. Collins and Dean Terence R. Flotte.
I am saddened to learn of the passing of Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Ralph Gants. Over the course of his 40-year legal career, Chief Justice Gants distinguished himself as a trailblazer in the legal profession and an outspoken defender of civil rights. It was a great privilege to present the Chief Justice with a UMass School of Law honorary degree in 2016.
Kimberly A. Yonkers, MD, an innovative and visionary leader in the interdisciplinary fields connecting psychiatry and women’s health, will join UMass Medical School and UMass Memorial Health Care as chair and professor of psychiatry on Nov. 1, according to Terence R. Flotte, MD, executive deputy chancellor, provost and dean of the School of Medicine.
Oluwabunmi Emidio, MD, MPH, is a PhD candidate in the Clinical and Population Health Research Program, and a postdoctoral fellow in a National Cancer Institute-funded training program Prevention and Control Cancer: Postdoctoral Training in Implementation Science (PRACCTIS). Dr. Emidio wears many hats: doctor, scientist and mother.