Construction continues on schedule for the new clinical building on the UMass Medical School campus that will house the VA Central Western Massachusetts Healthcare System’s new community-based outpatient clinic.
Demolition of the former Massachusetts Department of Transportation District 3 complex adjacent to the UMMS campus is complete. While most of the demolition debris has been hauled away, the remaining concrete and stone will be crushed on site and reused as fill. Crushing is expected to begin during the week of May 4.
Conflicting messages about proper distancing and protective equipment while millions of people are staying home to thwart the novel coronavirus are leaving some wondering what’s safe. What’s more, wellness habits can be hard to maintain when you’re stuck indoors.
UMass Medical School faculty have advice on research-based, healthy ways to cope with staying home.
UMass Medical School and UMass Lowell will play a key role in a new National Institutes of Health initiative aimed at speeding innovation, development and commercialization of COVID-19 testing technologies via their Center for Advancing Point of Care Technologies collaboration.
With a $1.5 billion investment from federal stimulus funding, the newly launched Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) initiative will infuse funding into early innovative technologies to speed development of rapid and widely accessible COVID-19 testing.
As an unusual and unprecedented academic year nears its close, the Office of Student Life is reaching out to students with messages of support from faculty and staff.
“I want to express to members of our student body how appreciative I am for how they’ve adapted to these changing times,” said Chancellor Michael F. Collins in a new video capturing faculty voices from the UMass Medical School community. “I also want to thank them for all they’ve done in our community, whether it’s local in Worcester, or beyond.”
UMass Amherst has been recognized for demonstrating leadership in innovative decarbonization by the Leading by Example (LBE) program, run by the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources.
As part of the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 20, the LBE program honored the sustainability accomplishments at state agencies and campuses over the past decade in a series of email newsletters.
Continuing its digital offerings, the UMass Amherst Fine Arts Center has announced a live family-friendly bedtime reading on Facebook featuring Australia-based Monkey Baa Theatre Company. Monkey Baa will join the Fine Arts Center on its Facebook page Tuesday, May 5 at 7 p.m. to read “Diary of a Wombat,” the iconic children's book that the theater company was meant to present as a live stage production at the FAC.
On Friday, May 1 at 7:30 p.m., the Magic Triangle Jazz Series, a program of the UMass Fine Arts Center, presents a virtual performance and talk by the renowned percussionist and singer Román Díaz. This virtual event will be in mostly in Spanish, with English subtitles. Román Díaz and his Rumba Ensemble was originally scheduled to perform at UMass Amherst on March 26.
Earlier this month, four UMass Boston students each virtually received $5,000 from the Krystle Campbell Scholarship Fund. These scholarships honor the legacy of Krystle Campbell, the alumna from Medford who was killed in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, providing support to undergraduate College of Management students.
Earlier this April, UMass Boston alumnae, College of Management students, and Boston executives took part in the first event of the Women Beacons of Business Program: a virtual book club featuring Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In for Graduates.
Sai Patel loves WUML.
So when the junior computer engineering major got a call from Tom Tiger, operations manager for the university’s student-run radio station, he didn’t hesitate to help.
WUML (91.5 FM) needed to shift its operations online as the campus shut down in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. Patel was ready to jump in.