The Child Trauma Training Center at UMass Medical School has received supplemental funding to help ensure the center’s LINK-KID referral service has the capacity to handle an expected surge in calls due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The $50,000 grant from the Lookout Foundation is part of the foundation’s effort to respond to the public health crisis with emergency grants for its established grantees.
Lyme disease has become an insidious epidemic in the United States. Caused by bacteria transmitted by an infected tick bite, symptoms can include arthritis and cardiac and neurological problems if left untreated. It is the most common tick-borne illness in the United States, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that around 300,000 people likely contract the disease each year.
A team of UMass Medical School researchers has identified a promising new therapeutic target in hepatoblastoma, a rare, primarily pediatric liver cancer for which successful treatment strategies have been elusive.
The study, which looks at the role in tumor survival of a cancer gene, YAP1, was led by Jordan Smith, an MD/PhD candidate in the lab of Wen Xue, PhD, associate professor of RNA therapeutics. It was published online in the journal Hepatology.
Who’s more popular, Tom Brady or Dunkin’ Donuts?
Commencement 2020 wasn’t what anyone pictured, least of all the thousands of graduating students, or the families that supported them.
This ceremony – like so many other things – was shaped by the cruel and sudden sweep of a global pandemic that left the campus locked down and online since mid-March. But students, faculty and administrators made the best of the situation, gathering online to celebrate the accomplishments of the Class of 2020.
By now during the coronavirus pandemic, you’ve probably seen plenty of stories about face masks. Crafty people are sewing them at home for their neighbors. Retailers such as The Gap, Banana Republic and Nordstrom can’t keep them in stock. Even celebrities like Kim Kardashian have jumped on the bandwagon and launched their own designer lines.
But most of those stories are about the demand for masks since April, when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that cloth face coverings be worn in public.
The Francis College of Engineering has launched countless careers since it was founded as the Lowell Textile School in 1895.
It also helped to launch a university 2,000 miles away in Lubbock, Texas.
The Southcoast Health COVID-19 surge hospital located in the Tripp Athletic Center at UMass Dartmouth has closed. The hospital was built in partnership with the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) to safeguard the capacity of the region’s hospitals during the COVID-19 spring surge. No patients were admitted to the hospital.
Southcoast Health and MEMA are currently removing all medical equipment from the site and the entire facility will be professionally cleaned. The cleaning process is expected to finish on June 1, 2020.
The UMass Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research released a new report to shed light on one of the big debates among parents and educators in America - school choice.
I am saddened to learn of the passing of Joseph Corcoran, a leader, a builder -- and a kind and generous man. As the founder of the pioneering Corcoran Jennison real estate development company, Mr. Corcoran was UMass Boston’s friend and neighbor, creating the Harbor Point residential community and nearby ventures at Bayside. During the course of his remarkable life and career, Joe’s business achievements were many, as were his philanthropic and civic contributions.