Depletion of a particular type of innate immune cell is the likely source of chronic inflammation in people living with HIV-1, according to new research published in Nature Immunology by a team lead by scientist Jeremy Luban, MD. The loss of innate lymphoid cells (ILC) may explain why people living with HIV-1 have increased rates of cardiovascular, liver, kidney and neurological disease associated with chronic inflammation, despite being on antiretroviral therapy.
University Relations (UR) has announced the formation of a new Content Team, led by Associate Vice Chancellor Nancy Buffone. Drawing on her editorial experience and broad perspective of campus, Buffone will assemble a staff tasked with helping to tell the UMass story by creating engaging content to be featured on the campus homepage, the Flagship newsletter and other UR platforms.
The University of Massachusetts family has lost one of its most illustrious and loyal members with the passing of Jack Welch, who graduated from UMass Amherst in 1957 and came to be recognized as the business world’s most creative and hard-charging CEO. In addition to the success he enjoyed as chairman and chief executive officer of General Electric, Mr.
Mary Andrianopoulos, associate professor of communication disorders, has received a $1.25 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to continue her long-term work on delivering speech-language interventions to students with autism through applied technologies. Those technologies include telehealth service delivery models and computer-based instruction.
The College of Nursing and Health Sciences’s Center for Clinical Education and Research (CCER) has long given UMass Boston nursing students an advantage as they embark on clinicals and paid nursing jobs. With its move to the first floor of the Quinn Administration Building this semester, the CCER has gone from about 3,000 square feet to just over 10,000, with even more amenities that prepare our students for the workforce.
The UMass Dartmouth Portuguese Department, Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives, and School of Education in the UMass Dartmouth College of Arts & Sciences hosted a delegation of graduate Education students from the University of the Azores. The students were joined by their instructor Graça Castanha and the poet Manuela Bulcão. They offered a workshop entitled, “Teaching Portuguese through Universal Design for Learning and Happiness”. The event, which took place on Friday, 21 February 2020 from 1 p.m.
Anna Maria Siega-Riz, dean of the School of Public Health and Health Sciences and professor in the departments of nutrition and biostatistics and epidemiology, received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of North Carolina (UNC) department of nutrition at an event held in her honor on Friday, Jan. 17. A former professor and associate dean at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, Siega-Riz earned a bachelor’s degree in public health from UNC, a master’s degree in food and nutrition from UNC-Greensboro and a doctoral degree in nutrition and epidemiology from UNC.
Ximena Zúñiga will be recognized with the American College Personnel Association (ACPA) - College Student Educators International Lifetime Achievement Award at the ACPA Convention in Nashville, Tennessee on Tuesday, March 3.
Drawing upon players of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, the West-Eastern Divan Ensemble, led by the orchestra’s concertmaster Michael Barenboim, embarks on its first tour, including a performance in Bowker Auditorium on Monday, March 2 at 7:30 p.m. The Ensemble will perform works by Brahms and Mendelssohn as well as new work by Benjamin Attahir. There will be a pre-performance talk at 6:30 p.m.
Two UMass Amherst buildings were recognized by the Boston Society of Architecture (BSA) at the organization’s annual award ceremony on Thursday, Jan. 23 at the BSA Space in downtown Boston.