AMHERST, Mass. – To enhance their coordinated response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the Town of Amherst have appointed a high-level Working Group to address areas of mutual concern.

AMHERST, Mass. – Nadia Fernandez of Elkhart, Indiana, a Ph.D. student in Environmental Conservation, with her advisor molecular ecologist Lisa Komoroske, are one of 45 advisor-student teams to receive a coveted 2020 Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study, the organization announced today.

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.”