Adam Corl, a Graduate Entry Pathway Doctor of Nursing Practice student in the Graduate School of Nursing, found his passion for medicine and health care through his undergraduate experiences at UMass Amherst, and then UMass Boston, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in anthropology in 2010.
Milagros C. Rosal, PhD, professor of population & quantitative health sciences in the Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, has been appointed to the newly created position of vice provost for health equity at UMass Medical School, according to announcement by Chancellor Michael F. Collins and Provost Terence R. Flotte. In her new role, which begins immediately, Dr. Rosal reports to the provost with a direct advisory role to the chancellor.
Anne Carlisle, PhD candidate in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, came to Massachusetts from Nebraska in 2015. After attending three undergraduate colleges in five years, it had come time for her to make a decision on where she’d pursue a graduate degree. She discovered UMass Medical School through a GSBS Career Eco-Virtual Fair.
The University of Massachusetts campuses recognizes that this year in college admissions will be unlike any other. With that in mind, we invite you and your colleagues to join the Directors of Admissions from all of the University of Massachusetts campuses (Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth, and Lowell) for a virtual information session.
The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) this week announced an award of $2 million in capital grants to be shared by four of the campus’s Core Facilities managed by the Institute for Applied Life Sciences (IALS). The funds are for the purchase of hardware and software, analytical and other equipment, as well as research supplies and reagents.
IALS Core Facilities receiving the support are:
Members of the campus’s Wind Energy Center (WEC) last week helped to launch the coalition New England for Offshore Wind, (NE4OSW), of which WEC is a member institution. NE4OSWis a coalition of nearly 40 environmental advocacy groups, research institutes and business alliances working to put New England in the forefront of offshore wind energy in the U.S., and to provide thousands of prevailing wage jobs to the region.
AMHERST, Mass. – Venus flytraps do it, trap-jaw ants do it, and now materials scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst can do it, too – they discovered a way of efficiently converting elastic energy in a spring to kinetic energy for high-acceleration, extreme velocity movements as nature does it.
AMHERST, Mass. – A new program at UMass Amherst has been awarded two grants totaling $6.3 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to ensure that the transformation of the electric grid is both sustainable and benefits all members of society equitably, an aspect of energy transition not often considered in policymaking or public discourse.