In 2013, Jacquie Moloney asked Nina Coppens if there was anything she could do for her. Coppens’ battle with brain cancer was near its end.
Coppens, 62, said one thing to her longtime friend and colleague.
“Paint, Jacquie. Paint.”
The chancellor recalled the moment with emotion at the dedication of a painting of Coppens on a wall of the O’Leary Library mezzanine. It is a large work, 16 feet wide by 6 feet tall, made by a trio of art students too young to have known Coppens. But they got to know her during the painting process.
According to the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM), the University of Massachusetts ranked fourth among all U.S. institutions and third among universities for generating income from the licensing of faculty-derived discoveries and products in FY 2018, the most recent year for which figures are available. UMass reported licensing revenue of approximately $146 million; the only universities that reported higher totals for that time period were the University of California system and Northwestern University.
AMHERST, Mass. – For the fourth year in a row, the Online MBA offered by the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst topped the rankings of U.S. programs—and came out number three in the world—in the “Financial Times” survey.
Isenberg has offered an AACSB-accredited MBA degree program entirely online since 2001, making it one of the most well-established and robust online degrees in the country. Currently, more than 1,100 students are enrolled in the program.
The aesthetic and function of UMass Amherst has changed dramatically since its establishment as a land-grant college in 1863. In a new documentary, students from the department of landscape architecture and regional planning (LARP) examine these changes, and what they mean for campus architecture, landscapes, and eco-friendly buildings.
There is a little-understood realm inside cells that cell biologist Tom Maresca likes to think of as the cell's dark matter, something like the largely unknown stuff that is so abundant in space.
Maresca recently received a four-year, $1.3 million grant renewal from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to use specialized tools to learn more about this less-studied inner universe of the cell.
“It’s a pretty good metaphor,” he says. “We know there’s a lot of it out there, but it’s difficult to study and defining its functions inside cells is complicated.”
University of Massachusetts Amherst Chancellor Kumble R. Subbaswamy was joined by Greenfield Community College President Yves Salomon-Fernandez and Southern New Hampshire University President Paul J. LeBlanc for a panel discussion titled “Higher Education in a Time of Social Change” in the Carney Family Auditorium in Furcolo Hall on Monday, March 2.
Gloria DiFulvio, senior lecturer and the undergraduate program director for the Public Health Sciences major, attended a workshop, “Integrating Experiential Learning in Global Health and Public Health,” held in January in Costa Rica. The faculty development workshop, a collaboration of seven organizations, including the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) and the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), aimed to have its participants gain essential "how-to’s" of integrating experiential learning experiences into coursework and programs.
On September 9, 1919, 1,177 Boston police officers went on strike in hopes of gaining long-promised improvements in wages and working conditions. None of the strikers ever worked as Boston police officers again. Some were so ashamed that they spoke very little about their former jobs to their family, if at all.
On Sunday, March 29th, 2020, the Claire T. Carney Library Associates will be presenting its 14th annual authors' brunch at the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 151 Martine Street, Fall River. Please note the change of venue from previous years. Parking is available on site. Reservations are required no later than Wednesday, March 25th. The cost of the brunch is $45 with a 10% discount for reservations for tables of eight. Tickets may be purchased from Library Associates members or online.
The stock ticker hanging in the Pulichino Tong Business Center atrium has been a blur of uncertainty in recent weeks, as fears of the coronavirus outbreak have sent global financial markets into a tailspin.
In the last week of February, as coronavirus cases began appearing in the United States, the Dow Jones industrial average plunged 12 percent, its worst week since the 2008 financial crisis. The Standard & Poor's 500 stock index and the Nasdaq composite index also suffered double-digit losses in a week that saw trillions of dollars in value erased from global markets.