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).
As colleges and universities plan for the return of students for the fall semester amid the COVID-19 pandemic, one important element in keeping everyone safe is frequent testing for the virus, according to Chancellor Michael F. Collins in a July 30 opinion piece published in the Boston Globe.
As high temperatures become more frequent and intense due to climate change, UMass Amherst scientists are developing interdisciplinary research aimed at helping communities increase resilience to extreme heat by monitoring physiological, mental and behavioral health factors.
This composite image shows the huge extent of a spiral galaxy’s magnetic field. Galaxy NGC 4217 is a star-formingspiral galaxy similar to the Milky Way. It is about 67 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major, according to astronomers in an international collaboration called CHANGES. The galaxy is seen edge-on in a visible-light image from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and Kitt Peak National Observatory. The magnetic field lines, in green, are revealed by Karl G.
AMHERST, Mass. – In a new study out this week, a team including forest ecologist Malcolm Itter at the University of Massachusetts Amherst reports finding “clear evidence of a contraction of the breeding period” among boreal birds in Finland over a 43-year span for which good quality data were available.
Alyssa Ryan, a Ph.D. student in the transportation program in the department of civil and environmental engineering, has been awarded a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) One-Year Research Grant for Doctoral Candidates. Ryan will conduct research on methods to achieve higher levels of highway safety at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, beginning in October 2020.
AMHERST, Mass. – Jessica Schiffman, associate professor of chemical engineering, is collaborating with researchers at the University of Maine to develop a novel bio-inspired membrane that can capture COVID-19 airborne droplets.