AMHERST, Mass. – The University of Massachusetts Amherst Center for Employment Equity (CEE) has launched a new series of case studies designed to explore the business rationale and goals of companies when adopting inclusive policies and practices, to assess the impact of the policies and practices and to provide insight for employers who might learn from the experiences of innovators.
AMHERST, Mass. – In a new investigation into how applying common privacy algorithms can cause inequities for minority populations and other groups, a team led by Gerome Miklau at the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) explored such potential effects on results from data of the U.S. Census Bureau and other institutions.
AMHERST, Mass. – As health care workers battle the COVID-19 pandemic on the front lines, they currently face a nationwide shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE), including face coverings of all types.
A meteorite striking the university’s data center. That’s the kind of disaster for which the Information Technology office had a contingency plan.
But a global pandemic that would force UML to suddenly close the campus and move all courses and business operations online in a matter of days?
Due to ongoing concerns about the impact of the coronavirus, the 124th Boston Marathon will not happen as planned in April, but has been rescheduled for September. This last time Marathon Monday was postponed was in 1918.
On Sept. 14, runners will still lace up and raise money for causes across the nation. A team of five New Englanders is supporting the UMass ALS Cellucci Fund this year, with a goal of raising $50,000 for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis research at UMass Medical School.
Fujifilm Corporation announced today the initiation of a Phase II clinical trial in the United States to evaluate the safety and efficacy of its antiviral drug Avigan (favipiravir) for patients with COVID-19, in collaboration with Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital and UMass Medical School.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Tasso and Music Symposium will now take place via Zoom video conference during the April 17-19 weekend, from 9:30am-12:30pm each day. Over a dozen music historians and literary scholars from North America and Europe will present papers on the musical legacy of 16th-century Italian poet Torquato Tasso.
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, healthcare workers have struggled to persist against the virus through a shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) such as masks, gowns, gloves, and eye gear. To help mitigate the shortage, two members of the UMass Boston’s School for the Environment (SFE) collected PPE from their labs, donating it to Boston Medical Center this past Friday.
More than 1,900 admitted students and their guests were able to participate in Welcome Day activities last weekend because of the virtual format necessitated by COVID-19. Compare that to April 2019, when 1,750 admitted students and their guests were on campus.
A donation of $8,500 from the City of Boston’s GRAD Last Mile Fund has put UMass Boston’s Chromebook drive over the top of its goal of securing 200 laptops to loan students. The drive has now funded 223 Chromebooks for students without laptops to help them succeed in a remote learning environment.