A growing relationship between UMass Boston’s Theatre Arts program and Boston Midsummer Opera (BMO) turned idle hands, during a period of cancelled shows, into much needed support for local health care workers.
Global higher education research company QS Quacquarelli Symonds has ranked UMass Boston No. 9 in Massachusetts and No. 79 overall on its inaugural ranking of top universities in the United States, with diversity, employability, and internationalization being key factors.
UMass Dartmouth Chancellor Robert E. Johnson announced today that the University is planning for Commencement ceremonies on campus on October 9 and 10, 2020. Due to the spread of COVID-19, UMass Dartmouth was forced to cancel ceremonies originally scheduled for May 8 and 11, 2020. The UMass Law School Commencement ceremony is planned to take place on October 9 in the Angus Bailey Auditorium in the Campus Center. Undergraduate and graduate Commencement ceremonies are planned to take place on October 10 in the Vietnam Veterans Peace Memorial Amphitheater.
A young woman glances down at her phone and taps out a series of text messages. Her hands shake. Her voice trembles as she answers questions from attending nurses in short bursts: “I’m fine. I’m not in any pain. I don’t know when I last ate.”
The scene playing out is a simulation exercise in the health promotion course in which nursing students practice assessment, critical thinking and communication skills. Student actors portray a patient and her partner. The nursing students have to think on their feet and assess the situation to provide the best care.
Chancellor Michael F. Collins expressed confidence in the planned phased return to work at UMass Medical School in his weekly video address on Monday, May 18.
“I want to serve as a role model. I hope young people think, ‘If she can do it, then so can I.’”
Salome Funes, PhD candidate in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, is a first -generation college student who came to the United States from Ecuador in 2016 to matriculate at UMMS in the Translational Science Program. Now, as vice president of the UMMS chapter of the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS), Funes is working to teach other young women about careers in science.
Deborah Mack, a PhD student in the Clinical & Population Health Research Program in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences has received the 2020 American Geriatrics Society Scientist-in-Training Research Award. She received the award for her outstanding abstract, submitted to the 2020 AGS Annual Meeting.
Six faculty members were recognized for excellence across the career spectrum during the 2020 Women’s Faculty Awards. Colleen Harrington, MD, assistant professor of medicine; Seema Adhami, MD, associate professor of pediatrics and neurology; Carolynn DeBenedectis, MD, associate professor of radiology; Anastasia Khvorova, PhD, professor of RNA therapeutics; Suzanne Cashman, ScD, professor of family medicine & community health; and Jennifer Bradford, MD, assistant professor of family medicine & community health, were honored in online proceedings on Monday, May 18.
Jennifer A. Benanti, PhD, associate professor of molecular, cell & cancer biology, was recently awarded a federal Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award, or MIRA grant, to advance her lab’s study of molecular mechanisms of cell cycle control, a key factor in understanding cancer development.
Pointing to the financial hardships that many Massachusetts families are facing and in consultation with campus chancellors, UMass President Marty Meehan today said he will recommend a tuition freeze for the university’s nearly 50,000 in-state undergraduate students during the upcoming academic year.