The coronavirus pandemic is giving smokers more reasons to give up the habit, and it’s creating a unique window of opportunity to do so.
As a medical doctor working in addiction psychiatry, I work with a lot of patients who smoke or vape. I’ve been hearing from many of them that the coronavirus pandemic is the extra motivation that they need to finally quit.
A group of first and second-year students in the School of Medicine held a live 24-hour online community-building and fundraising event from May 1 to May 2, raising more than $15,000 for UMass Memorial Medical Center’s operations at the DCU field hospital in Worcester. The field hospital is one of the many pop-up facilities in the state housing and treating COVID-19 patients.
BOSTON – The University of Massachusetts Class of 2020, which made history this spring when it was forced by the COVID-19 pandemic to complete its studies remotely, will be celebrated in a variety of ways by the Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth, Lowell and Medical School campuses this month.
As an academic year like no other comes to a close, I want to take a moment to recognize the leadership on each of our five campuses, and the remarkable job that our 18,000 faculty and staff members have done under extraordinary circumstances to move our 75,000 students forward.
AMHERST, Mass. – John Jacobs, co-founder of the lifestyle brand Life is Good and member of the University of Massachusetts Amherst Class of 1990, will provide a message of optimism and resilience to the Class of 2020 in a special video as part of the university’s virtual senior celebration May 8 on www.umass.edu.
AMHERST, Mass. – For years, geologists have debated how and when a network of canyons under the Greenland Ice Sheet formed, especially one that is so deep and long it’s called ‘Greenland’s Grand Canyon.’ Its shape suggests it was carved by running water followed by glaciation, but until now, “the genesis of this canyon, and similar features in northern Greenland, remain(ed) unknown,” authors of a new paper say.
Landscape services is hosting a Mother’s Day and spring plant sale on Wednesday, May 6. Proceeds from the sale will benefit the Student Care Supply Closet. They will be selling plants which would have been used in the commencement ceremony.
Shade-loving annuals available include rex begonia “red bull” for $10 and Gigantic Boston ferns for $25 each. The sun-loving include mixed baskets of yellow or white flowers for $10 each.
AMHERST, Mass. – Over the last 20 years, cities around the world have looked to embrace “smartness” – the ability to incorporate data, technology, innovation and automation into planning and operations. But have they succeeded in achieving the goals that city planners and managers, as well as tech industry leaders, have promised?
AMHERST, Mass. – For many years, the conservation community has embraced the idea that improving connectivity, that is, creating corridors so species can follow their preferred climate, will benefit biodiversity, says Toni Lyn Morelli at the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Climate Adaptation Science Center.
But, she adds, “I also work with invasive species experts and conservationists who know that new species can be problematic. So one community is saying yes, species arrivals are good, the other one says species arrivals are bad, and so far they aren’t talking much.”
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