UMass Boston senior Joseph Farah has been named one of seven finalists for the American Physical Society's LeRoy Apker Award, regarded as the highest honor awarded to undergraduate physics students in the United States.
What the doctor is writing on your medical chart is no longer a mystery. Thanks to health information technology you’re able to go online and see the doctor’s notes about your visit.
You want your kids back in school this fall because getting them to learn online last spring while you tried to act professional in work Zoom meetings was a lost cause. You worry that the new COVID-19 protocols for schools will make it difficult for your kids to get the consistent support they need. But now that you’re expected to be back in the office, you need your kids to get on that school bus every morning. Otherwise, you may find yourself out of a job.
Katie Sanchez ’20 breathed a sigh of relief when she found out in early March that she’d been accepted into Boston Scientific’s financial leadership development program. The two-year rotation was scheduled to start in June, one month after Sanchez graduated with a degree in business administration from the Manning School of Business.
Then the coronavirus pandemic hit, and Sanchez was holding her breath again.
Amid nationwide shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) for health care workers on the front lines of treating the novel coronavirus, the state quickly assembled a task force to help manufacturers pivot to producing masks, gowns, ventilators, swabs and testing equipment.
Xarielle Gittens had one complaint after participating in the Manning School of Business’ Global Entrepreneurship Exchange (GE2) program this summer.
“I didn’t want it to end,” said Gittens, a chemistry major from the University of Guyana. “I wish it could have lasted another week.”
Students liken the Economics Department to a family: It’s close-knit, everyone knows each other, and the professors are accessible and welcoming.
UMass Medical School has been awarded grants totaling more than $100 million to coordinate the nationwide push for fast, accessible COVID-19 testing, playing a major role in the National Institutes of Health’s Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics, or RADx, program.
UMMS has already distinguished itself as an incubator for innovative point-of-care (POC) medical technology, which provides clinical information at the site where the patient is, through the Center for Advancing Point of Care Technologies, or CAPCaT, a partnership between the Medical School and UMass Lowell.
PhD candidate Kasturi Biswas had never been outside of India until 2018, when she flew 21 hours across the world to begin her studies in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at UMass Medical School.
“I’m from Kolkata, which is in West Bengal. That’s where I was raised,” Biswas said. “My uncle was a regarded scientist, and many people respected him. I was also a rather quiet kid. I spent my time reading the science books that my mother bought me.”
Pediatric endocrinologist Benjamin Nwosu, MD, led a UMass Medical School study which found that teens with type 1 diabetes whose glucose levels were continuously monitored were able to improve control of their blood sugar—which can be uncontrollably elevated during adolescence due to a phenomenon called physiologic hyperglycemia of puberty (PHOP).