Since 2003, the Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation and Stephen Silliman, professor and chair of anthropology in the College of Liberal Arts at UMass Boston, have been running the Eastern Pequot Archaeological Field School as an archaeology, heritage, and education project. The Eastern Pequot Archaeological Field School is a community-engaged, collaborative historic and cultural preservation effort between the Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation and UMass Boston to study cultural and archaeological sites on the historic Eastern Pequot reservation.
Sophomore biology major Kingsly Mante Angua has a lot of things that he wants to do when he graduates from UMass Boston—like become a pediatric surgeon, or work with Doctors Without Borders, or go home to Ghana and build clinics and help fight malaria.
The fourth cohort of UMass Boston students graduated in the winter 2020 session of the Commonwealth Seminar on March 11 marking one year of the partnership between UMass Boston and the Commonwealth Seminar.
Dear students of UMassD,
In January, when we started our spring semester, no one could have predicted the situation in which we now find ourselves. In just a few weeks, the coronavirus has substantially changed the way our University and society at large operate. These changes have been incredibly disruptive to your academics, personal lives, and have dramatically altered your college experience.
This was not how our semester was supposed to end.
Midway through spring break, students learned that the campus would be switching completely to online classes, due to the rapid spread of COVID-19.
Computer Science Prof. Xinwen Fu has been awarded more than $4.5 million by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for his research on the Internet of Things, or IoT.
As CEO and chief scientific officer of Franklin, Mass.-based MRN Diagnostics, Gregory Chiklis has spent the past six weeks in a race against the clock, working on a rapid blood test for COVID-19.
Chiklis, who earned a Ph.D. in chemistry from UMass Lowell in 1992, has been working with Chembio Diagnostic Systems on a test designed to diagnose antibodies in people who have contracted the virus. His company’s work included creating synthetic antibodies to develop their tests and to run quality controls using safe noninfectious materials.
The announcement came in late June 2018, just as many people were turning their attention to Fourth of July cookouts and summer vacation plans.
The federal agency tasked with solving critical health threats to Americans has chosen the Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center (M2D2) as one of only eight business incubators in the nation to help startups develop means of eradicating influenza pandemics and other public health emergencies.
In his March 30 video address to the UMass Medical School community, Chancellor Michael F. Collins recognized the many people who have stepped up to help as everyone copes with the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I have been inspired by the selfless acts of courage, determination and thoughtfulness,” he said. “So many are committed to the needs of others! Acts of kindness abound: be they a call to the lonely, a wave at the window, a note from a donor or a friend from days past! Amidst it all, these are days where inspiration is infused with actions by those who care for others.”
In a letter to UMass Medical School Chancellor Michael F. Collins, the interim chancellor of UMass Boston thanked the entire UMMS community for its distinct role in rising to the coronavirus health care challenge.
“On behalf of the 17,000 students and thousands of employees of UMass Boston, I write to express our collective gratitude for the extraordinary work your physicians, researchers, nurses, administrators and soon-to-be doctors graduating shortly are doing for the people of the commonwealth,” wrote Katherine Newman, PhD.