BOSTON – On the eve of National Voter Registration Day, the five elected UMass student trustees released the following joint statement in support of the UMass Votes campaign, which encourages all UMass students to vote in the upcoming national election.
Associate professor Alejandro Heuck’s biochemistry lab, in collaboration with Worcester-based Microbiotix, Inc., has been awarded a two-year, $600,000 NIH Small Business Technology Transfer award to develop a high-throughput screening method to identify inhibitors of a bacterial secretion system that attacks human cells by injecting toxins. A treatment based on the inhibitors could act by a new mechanism to enhance the host’s innate immune response to infection, Heuck says.
For the fourth time in the past five years, the Mark H. McCormack Department of Sport Management has been judged by its academic peers as the number one sport management program in the world, according to “SportBusiness” magazine’s annual global rankings released today.
In addition to its top global ranking in the “Professors’ Choice” category, the McCormack graduate program, which includes both its MBA/MS and MS in Sport Management degree programs, was also ranked number one in the “Graduates’ Choice” category and number two overall in the world.
The International Association for Geoscience Diversity recently named Michele Cooke, geosciences, as the recipient of its 2020 International Association for Geoscience Diversity Inclusive Geoscience Education and Research Award for her work as a “foundational leader in accessible and inclusive geoscience teaching in both the classroom and field for over 20 years, all while maintaining a successful research career in geomechanics and structural geology.
AMHERST, Mass. – The University of Massachusetts Amherst has announced a new collaboration with IntelliVen, a leading executive team development organization, to provide interactive, remote learning programs designed to raise the performance and effectiveness of leadership teams.
The collaboration represents another step in developing a robust portfolio of options for UMass Amherst alumni and students to continue learning beyond their college degree.
The UMass Amherst food science department maintained its number-one ranking in the U.S. and jumped to seventh in the world, according to the 2020 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects, part of the annual Academic Ranking of World Universities, published by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy.
Associate Professor of Management and acclaimed climate change strategist Nardia Haigh was awarded the 2020 Book Award from the Organizations and Natural Environment (ONE) Division of the Academy of Management this summer for her guide on how to adapt to what climate change may bring.
As he traveled to Santiago, Chile in March to set up an art exhibition and coordinating disaster research, Gonzalo Bacigalupe fully expected to be on a return flight back to Boston after the spring break. But immediately after arriving, he knew he would be staying — and quarantining — for a long time.
Now more than six months into quarantine, Bacigalupe has become a leading voice on the COVID-19 pandemic in Chile.
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.