Medical clinics across the nation are making swift adjustments due to the widespread novel coronavirus. Abiding by social distancing regulations to help flatten the curve, many physicians are transitioning to remote consultation.
This is where telehealth comes into play, and there are now dozens of clinics in Central Massachusetts offering the video conferencing option for patients, thanks to recent training from medical students at UMass Medical School.
A new study by UMass Medical School researchers may up-end a common belief about the benefit of e-cigarettes for helping smokers kick the habit.
A team of academic and industry experts, including the Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA) in the College of Engineering, is collaborating with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on a project aimed at controlling an expected increase in low-flying manned and unmanned aircraft over cities in the U.S. in the next decade.
The team includes three universities and four private companies and is headed by researchers at the University of North Texas, Denton.
The UMass Amherst Libraries are coordinating efforts for the Pioneer Valley’s participation in the fifth annual international City Nature Challenge (CNC). The Challenge consists of a submission period from April 24-27, 2020, during which participants observe and submit pictures of wild plants, animals, and fungi using the free mobile app iNaturalist, and a crowdsource-based identification period from April 28-May 3, 2020. Results of the Challenge will be announced on May 4.
AMHERST, Mass. – Meir Y. Barth, of Newton, Mass., a 2018 graduate of Commonwealth Honors College at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, is one of seventy-seven scholars from thirty countries selected to receive a Gates Cambridge Scholarship that funds one year of graduate study at the University of Cambridge in England.
TheUMass Amherst Libraries have announced the winners of the 2020 Undergraduate Sustainability Research Awards.
A $1,500 scholarship was awarded to first-place recipient, senior Linda Black, for the white paper, “FOOD/NOW: On Climate Mitigation, Sustainable Farming, and Food Security in Massachusetts.”
UMass Amherst College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) professor Gerome Miklau, associate professor Andrew McGregor and alumni Chao Li and Michael Hay are scheduled to receive the Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award at the 2020 Association for Computing Machinery Symposium on the Principles of Database Systems (ACM PODS) for their 2010 paper, “Optimizing Linear Counting Queries under Differential Privacy.”
Professors Qiangfei Xia and Jianhua (Joshua) Yang of the electrical and computer engineering (ECE) department have published yet another in a long series of papers in the family of “Nature” academic journals, this one in the latest issue of “Nature Electronics.” In this paper, the two ECE researchers and their research team described their construction and operation of a three-dimensional (3D) circuit composed of eight layers of integrated memristive devices in which the novel stru
Caryn Brause, associate professor in the department of architecture, served as issue editor of the recently published issue of the journal “Technology | Architecture + Design.”
Brause is a founding editorial board member of the journal, which is dedicated to the advancement of scholarship in the field of building technology, with a particular focus on its translation, integration, and impact on architecture and design.
Siobhan Meï, a Ph.D. candidate in comparative literature, has been selected as a Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellow in Women’s Studies for 2020.
The Woodrow Wilson Women’s Studies Fellowship program supports promising humanities and social science Ph.D. candidates whose work address women’s and gendered issues in interdisciplinary and original ways. Ten fellows were selected this year.