On July 1, 2020, UMass Dartmouth will welcome John A. Williams, Ph.D., as the Dean of the Charlton College of Business.
Williams most recently served as Dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of New Orleans, a position he held since 2013. Before joining the University of New Orleans, he served as Director of the Department of Hotel, Restaurant, Institution Management & Dietetics at Kansas State University and as the Coordinator of the Undergraduate Program at Virginia Tech.
Kurt Schultz, SOM ’21, was recently awarded the 2020 AΩA Carolyn L. Kuckein Student Research Fellowship. The fellowship’s purpose is to foster the development of the next generation of medical researchers.
Upon notice of the award, Schultz received $2,500 to support him during his research period. An additional $2,500 will be paid after the receipt and approval of the final research report.
Sage Foley, PhD candidate in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, presented her research at a virtual event hosted by Karen Edelblum, PhD, of Rutgers University, called “Guts & Bugs: A Virtual GI Seminar Series.” The seminar features scientists and graduate students from all over the world and serves as a platform for scientific discourse during a time of social distancing. Foley’s session took place on June 11.
The stages in which ribosomes synthesize life-sustaining proteins have been revealed in unprecedented real-time detail by UMass Medical School structural biologists Andrei Korostelev, PhD, and Anna Loveland, PhD. Their new study of this fundamental molecular mechanism, captured using state-of-the-art, time-resolved, cryo-electron microscopy was published by the journal Nature on July 1.
Organizers have announced that the 22nd annual UMass Cancer Walk and Run scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 13, will take place online, with supporters able to participate remotely at locations and for distances of their choosing.
Assistant Professor of Special Education Kristin Murphy was honored Wednesday during a special Zoom ceremony as one of five University of Massachusetts faculty to receive the 2020 Manning Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
The five UMass faculty members—one from each campus—will receive $10,000 awards in recognition of their commitment to exemplary teaching and dedication to students.
“Today I am so lucky. I love my job,” Murphy said. “I work with students at UMass Boston who remind me of who I was when I was starting my career.”
Lorena Estrada-Martinez, an assistant professor of environment and public health in the School for the Environment (SFE), recently received an $800,000 three-year grant from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to conduct a study called “Community Driven Assessment of Environmental Health Risks in Vieques, Puerto Rico.”
Mai-Lan Rogoff, MD, professor of psychiatry, is one of five University of Massachusetts faculty awarded the 2020 Manning Prize for Excellence in Teaching for outstanding dedication to students and the university. One faculty member from each UMass campus is chosen for the award and given $10,000 in recognition of his or her sustained excellence in teaching and exemplary contributions to the campus community.
In recent months, even as our attention has been focused on the coronavirus outbreak, there have been a slew of scientific breakthroughs in treating diseases that cause blindness.