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.

AMHERST, Mass. –The Influenza Forecasting Center of Excellence team at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is developing a COVID-19 forecast hub by unifying multiple models in an effort to produce a more accurate picture of the potential impacts of the novel coronavirus.

AMHERST, Mass. – As millions of families struggle to keep their children learning while schools are closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, preliminary results of a randomized, controlled study led by psychology researcher David Arnold at the University of Massachusetts Amherst show that 4- and 5-year-olds from low income families who used a Khan Academy Kids App for three months at home achieved “substantial gains in their pre-literacy skills that brought them nearly to the national average.”

The Healey Library's University Archives and Special Collections (UASC) staff launched a new project: They’re documenting the UMass Boston community’s response to the COVID-19 crisis. By compiling personal materials online, they hope to chronicle the personal and collective experience of the epidemic for present and future Beacons.

Rationing health care resources during a pandemic is a complex undertaking, says Assoc. Prof. Carol Hay of Philosophy.

What’s clear, though, is that COVID-19 is exposing deep inequities in access to health care and other basic resources that existed long before the pandemic arrived – and it presents an opportunity to address those inequalities, she says.

An impassioned pitch for a business making sustainable, smart textiles and fabric pots for agricultural and horticultural use captured $7,000 and the top Rist Campus-Wide DifferenceMaker Award at a virtual competition that went on despite the COVID-19 campus shutdown. 

Shortly before Assoc. Prof. Sandra Lim completed her Ph.D. in English literature, she decided to take a chance on her poetry and apply to M.F.A. programs in creative writing.

“It felt like a big, daring move to invest in my imagination,” she says.