Earlier this year, UMass Boston students Charles Whittlesey and Hongjie Lin received life-changing news: They had each been accepted into the US Coast Guard’s (USCG) College Student Pre-Commissioning Initiative (CSPI) program.
Alumni and students had the unique opportunity to hear from College of Nursing and Health Sciences (CNHS) alumni and a nursing student who serve in a variety of roles in the health care industry.
The UMass Boston Chamber Singers and University Chorus went online this semester, like all courses. But through the magic of virtual meeting and video editing technology, this show will go on.
Choral Director David Giessow invites all to join the UMass Boston Choruses for a virtual concert, On Justice, Truth, and Peace, appearing on the UMass Boston YouTube Channel on Wednesday, May 13 at noon.
Research from the lab of Milena Bogunovic, MD, PhD, associate professor of pathology, shows that a specific combination of cells is necessary for the activation, initiation and control of immune responses to infection in the intestine. Published in Science Immunology, the study found that a certain subtype of macrophage (white blood cells that engulf foreign or infective bodies) present in the intestine induce activation of protective Immunoglobulin A (IgA) antibodies in response to Salmonella infection.
Two Graduate School of Nursing PhD students defended their dissertations via Zoom in early April. Both nursing students said they had positive experiences presenting through a screen, despite it being different from the norm of prior years.
Online courses in behavioral health in primary are are enabling Graduate School of Nursing students in the clinical year of the Doctor of Nursing Practice program to fulfill their program requirements despite having clinical hours suspended due to COVID-19. The courses have been developed and are disseminated nationwide by the Center for Integrated Primary Care in the Department of Family Medicine & Community Health at UMass Medical School, also home to the GSN.
AMHERST, Mass. – For the first time in its history, the University of Massachusetts Amherst today held a virtual Commencement celebration to honor its graduating class of 6,600 students. The Class of 2020 persevered through a difficult final semester, completing their studies remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and were hailed in a streaming video presentation viewed on the UMass website and as a Facebook Live event.
As graduating seniors face the reality of entering into an uncertain job market, the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS) and the Office of Alumni Relations recently hosted several virtual panels of alumni, offering advice to SBS students.
AMHERST, Mass. – A molecular biologist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who has for decades studied the nightmarish group of fatal diseases caused by prions – chronic wasting disease in deer, mad cow in cattle and its human analog – credits a middle-of-the-night dream for a crucial insight, a breakthrough she hopes could lead to a cure.
Health promotion and policy doctoral student Anna Mullany recently hosted a series of radio programs addressing the impact of COVID-19 on undergraduate public health students that aired in April on Indigo Radio. Mullany is the host of a weekly show on Brattleboro Community Radio WVEW-LP 107.7 FM.