Falls are the leading cause of injury-related death among older Americans and lead to three million emergency department visits every year. About one out of every three adults age 65 and older falls each year, and 20 to 30 percent of those who fall suffer moderate-to-severe injuries such as broken hips or head trauma.
Boston, MA – UMass Online launched 34 fully online degree and certificate programs since the beginning of FY20, the latest in the university’s continued commitment to world-class online educational offerings. The new programs include a mix of undergraduate and graduate certificates, bachelor’s degrees, master’s degrees and a doctorate within STEM, health care, business and criminal justice.
Prinkle Sharma and Vidhyashree Nagaraju, 2020 Computer Engineering PhD graduates, have accepted tenure track faculty positions at nationally ranked universities.
The striking development of UAVs (drones) is unleashing their increasing application in civilian and military scenarios, including remote sensing, search and rescue, structure and site inspections, shipping and delivery, agricultural monitoring, intelligence and reconnaissance. Serious cybersecurity concerns have also been raised about UAVs, which are now being looked upon as targets of cyber-attacks or potential attack vectors for malicious actors.
Criminology Assoc. Prof. Christopher Harris researches police misconduct, police accountability, public perceptions of police, and early intervention systems intended to identify and re-train officers flagged as more likely to engage in misconduct, including excessive use of force.
Facilities Management sends out the emails a few times each summer. With the subject line “Power Curtailment Notification,” the emails ask faculty, staff and students on campus to turn off unneeded computers, appliances and lights for a few hours to lower the university’s energy usage.
“Regional energy consumption is reaching undesirable or unsustainable peak loads,” warns the notification, which usually comes during heat waves when air conditioners are cranked up in homes and offices across New England.
A UMass Medical School researcher has been awarded a grant to study the association between the nasopharyngeal microbiome—the bacterial community that colonizes the back of the nose and throat—and clinical outcomes of patients with COVID-19.
The one-year, $24,793 COVID-19 research grant was awarded to Evan Bradley, MD, PhD, assistant professor of emergency medicine, by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Foundation.
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need to learn more about the coronavirus’s first major contact environment in the body, the nasopharynx.
UMass Medical School will create a national resource and training center to address child trauma caused by impaired caregiving, funded with a five-year, $3 million grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The Resilience Through Relationships Center will reside within the UMMS Child Trauma Training Center under the direction of Jessica L. Griffin, PsyD, principal investigator for the grant and founder and executive director of the centers.
The University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees has voted to approve the establishment of four newly endowed professorships and the appointment of five esteemed UMMS faculty members to new or existing endowed chairs. The newly endowed faculty are: Douglas T. Golenbock, MD, professor of medicine and microbiology & physiological systems and chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology in the Department of Medicine; Gregory A.
George M. Abraham, MD, MPH, professor of medicine, was appointed chair of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine. The board licenses more than 40,000 physicians and acupuncturists and serves to protect the public health and safety by setting standards for the practice of medicine and ensuring that doctors who practice in the commonwealth are appropriately qualified and competent.