The Integrated Concentration in Science (iCons) Program this month unveiled an online, web-based “innovation portal” to showcase student research projects into real-world problems as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic and as a remote instruction tool, says iCons founder and professor of chemistry Scott Auerbach. He and the program’s faculty researchers and instructors intend the portal to allow iCons student research to enjoy increased impact through online dissemination.
As previously announced, the Fine Arts Center has been hard at work shifting its programming online, with the goal of streaming performances, providing interactive virtual gallery experiences, and sharing other engaging content and conversations with the public.
Ric Grefé, former executive director of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) and Design Thinker in Residence at Williams College will be providing a talk and question and answer session on Thursday, April 23rd at noon. The talk will be held online and all members of the UMass community are welcome.
AMHERST, Mass – As college students adjust to distance learning, Riley J. Walter, a senior at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has completed his senior thesis project by releasing a musical album. The record, which is primarily hip-hop and experimental music, is a culmination of over a year of work, and was written, produced, recorded, mixed, and mastered entirely by Walter.
How can higher education foster equity while serving a variety of constituents, and what does it look like? These questions—among many others—will be on the table when UMass Amherst hosts the virtual Higher Education Equity Summit on Friday, April 24 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., EST.
Students, faculty and staff are encouraged to preregister for this free event by Sunday, April 19.
The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) has selected Benjamin Kugler, a PhD candidate in UMass Boston’s Exercise and Health Sciences Program, as one of the two recipients of this year’s Charles M. Tipton Student Research Award.
Kugler received the award for his project, “Targeting Mitochondrial Quality Control to Alleviate Skeletal Muscle Insulin Resistance Associated with Obesity.”
Winning a national championship is an unforgettable experience for any college athlete. Especially when it comes during extraordinarily unusual circumstances.
There’s no telling how the coronavirus pandemic will affect national, state and local elections this November. But at the student government level at UMass Lowell, it’s business as usual.
In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is more important than ever that adults of all ages have a health care proxy naming someone to make health care decisions on their behalf if they are too sick to make them on their own, said Carol Bova, PhD, RN, professor of nursing and medicine and chair of the UMass Medical School Institutional Review Board.
Since 2003, The Center for Research on Families has offered the groundbreaking Family Research Scholars Program since 2003. This year-long interdisciplinary seminar for faculty in various stages of research provides the opportunity for peer mentorship and national expert consultation in order to prepare a large grant proposal.