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.
A virtual celebration for the class of 2020 on Friday, May 8, the day commencement would have occurred, has been announced. Details will follow, and individual schools and colleges are expected to announce virtual activities and events to commemorate seniors’ years at UMass Amherst.
This online event is not a substitute for an on-campus celebration, which will still take place sometime after restrictions on large gatherings are lifted.
The UMass Amherst Libraries recently raised more than $5,300 for the campus’s Student Care and Emergency Response Fund (SCERF) with a unique campaign featuring Annette Vadnais, student success and outreach librarian.
AMHERST, Mass. – UMass Amherst will join nationwide tributes to honor COVID-19 pandemic frontline workers beginning Wednesday, April 15, by illuminating two top floors of the W. E. B. Du Bois Library with blue lights as well as offering complimentary pansies to on-site campus employees.
AMHERST, Mass. – A type of damage in soft materials and tissue called cavitation is one of the least-studied phenomena in physics, materials science and biology, say expert observers. But strong evidence suggesting that cavitation occurs in the brain during sudden impact leading to traumatic brain injury (TBI) has accelerated interest recently, say materials scientist Alfred Crosby at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and his team.