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.
Everything is pleasant inside the Rist Urban Agriculture Greenhouse. The air is warm and tranquil, filled with fresh, earthy notes from the spring seedlings of tomato plants, scallions, ginger and turmeric. The only sound is the muffled white noise of the nearby Merrimack River.
In a Thursday email to the campus community, Chancellor Kumble R. Subbaswamy thanked on-site campus staff for their continued service and faculty for their swift transition to remote learning. He also addressed budget concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic, plans for a virtual celebration of the Class of 2020 and preparations for the fall semester.
That email is as follows:
Dear Colleagues,
AMHERST, Mass. – To help resource managers in the Northeast meet a climate change challenge – more than 100 new invasive plant species could expand into the area – University of Massachusetts Amherst ecologists are offering a new analysis that narrows the large list down to five priority species with the greatest potential impacts.
AMHERST, Mass – The university’s Board of Trustees unanimously voted April 15 to name the UMass Amherst Fine Arts Center (FAC) for the late Randolph W. “Bill” Bromery, in honor of the former chancellor who played a transformative role in creating today’s vibrant and diverse public research university.
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.
Nancy A. Anoruo, MD, MPH, a third-year resident in the Department of Medicine, has been working over the last three weeks as a medical contributor and journalist for the ABC News Medical Unit in New York.
“World News Tonight, Good Morning America, all of those programs—everything medical within those shows that you see on ABC comes through us first,” Dr. Anoruo said about the unit’s medical experts and fact checkers.
Anoruo said she has long been a fan of medical journalists such as Sanjay Gupta, MD, at CNN and Jennifer Ashton, MD, ABC’s chief medical correspondent.