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.
AMHERST, Mass. – Three researchers in the chemistry department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have teamed up to investigate whether they can develop a simple, color-changing test swab for COVID-19 in the next year that would alert users if their body carries a viral product left after infection.
AMHERST, Mass. – Student Speaker Grace Jung of the University of Massachusetts Amherst will play a leading role Friday during a virtual celebration of the university’s Class of 2020.
AMHERST, Mass. – Dr. Frederick C. Tillis, musician – composer, poet, arts advocate, director emeritus of the UMass Amherst Fine Arts Center (FAC) and co-founder and director emeritus of the Jazz in July program, died at age 90 on Sunday, May 3.
One student and one alumna have received Fulbright English Teaching Assistantships (ETAs), esteemed fellowships that allow American graduates to travel abroad and help local English teachers in their classrooms.