UMass Boston alumnus Jack Carvalho ’92 has donated $100,000 to the Beacon Student Aid Fund, which provides emergency one-time grants to students who have urgent financial needs. The gift from Carvalho is the latest in a series of generous donations from him over the past dozen years and the largest gift ever specifically for emergency student aid at UMass Boston.
As employees in nursing homes and hospitals, grocery stores and jails experience a surge in illness from exposure to the novel coronavirus, The New England Consortium is offering free trainings on how to keep essential workers safe.
Chancellor Michael F. Collins talks about the resiliency of the UMass Medical School community in his weekly video address on April 21, detailing the many ways in which faculty, students and staff are working together to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 and continue the operations of UMMS.
Seven Massachusetts Department of Mental Health hospitals have been equipped with personal protective equipment for staff, thanks to a decade-long partnership between UMass Medical School and West China Hospital. The hospital is affiliated with Sichuan University Medical School, in Chengdu, China.
The donation fills a gap, at least for the short term, in protecting DMH hospital staff after normal state purchasing outlets were closed.
As an educator, a scientist and a patient undergoing treatment for multiple myeloma, Jill A. Zitzewitz, PhD, has a unique perspective on dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Center for Teaching & Learning (CTL) has announced the selection of the 2020-21 Lilly Fellows for Teaching Excellence.
The eight fellows are:
The School of Public Policy (SPP) and the Community Scholars Program (CSP) have launched a new partnership that allows students enrolled in CSP to count coursework for the program toward a certificate in public policy at SPP as well.
Under the new collaboration, CSP students can apply the four courses they take in the program toward the eight courses required for the policy certificate.
AMHERST, Mass. – Only 10 years ago, scientists working on what they hoped would open a new frontier of neuromorphic computing could only dream of a device using miniature tools called memristors that would function/operate like real brain synapses.
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