Anastasia Khvorova, PhD, professor of RNA therapeutics at UMass Medical School, spoke to Discover magazine last week about new efforts in her lab to develop a vaccine using RNA-based therapies against COVID-19, the disease causes by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
As children’s regular routines are upended during the COVID-19 pandemic, they turn to the adults in their lives for emotional as well as physical safety. A newly released resource guide co-authored by UMass Medical School child psychologist and trauma-informed care leader Jessica Griffin, PsyD, and colleagues at the national child welfare research center Child Trends offers research-informed guidance for caretakers.
Stating that “Graduating medical students are ready: let’s get them to work,” Chancellor Michael F. Collins announced that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has approved a bold and unprecedented initiative to accelerate the graduation of UMass Medical School’s fourth-year School of Medicine students, thereby providing them with the opportunity to begin their careers as physicians three months early and at a most critical time when they will be able to promptly shore up hospital medical staff.
AMHERST, Mass. – Urgent research at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is investigating whether health care providers can safely reuse protective face masks, which could slow the Covid-19 pandemic and ease a critical equipment shortage endangering medical workers and patients worldwide.
Testing for COVID-19, more commonly known as the coronavirus, is critical given the current global pandemic.
Paulette Renault-Caragianes offers a clear, steady voice for uncertain times.
As associate dean of student affairs for health and wellness, Renault-Caragianes’ primary responsibility is overseeing the campus Wellness Center, which brings together counseling services, disability services, health services and health education and promotion.
Music may have the power to soothe, but for more than a week, those who teach it have been scrambling to adjust to the new reality of COVID-19 and online instruction.
While adapting his classes as online lessons, Prof. John Shirley decided to weave in some normalcy and walked to South Campus, camera in hand.
As public schools across the country began closing to prevent the rapid spread of COVID-19, Clinical Prof. of Education Michelle Scribner-MacLean watched as teachers, education companies and nonprofits posted educational resources online.
After some hunting, you find a metered parking space in downtown Lowell. But when you go to drop a few quarters in the nearest payment kiosk, the machine doesn’t work. Should you find another kiosk? Should you leave a note on your dashboard and hope you don’t get a ticket?
It can be a familiar dilemma for anyone who uses Lowell’s solar-powered parking kiosks, which were installed in 176 locations throughout the city in 2012 but have proven less than reliable in recent years.
AMHERST, Mass. – When cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar was shot dead in 1993, the four hippos he brought to his private zoo in Colombia were left behind in a pond on his ranch. Since then, their numbers have grown to an estimated 80-100, and the giant herbivores have made their way into the country’s rivers. Scientists and the public alike have viewed Escobar’s hippos as invasive pests that by no rights should run wild on the South American continent.