Cash-back incentives from credit card companies are a popular way to persuade consumers to pay with plastic.
But rather than putting that cash back into your pocket each month, UML students Pedro Piau, Oliver Jennings and Jack Disilvio had a different idea: Have the credit card company automatically deposit the money into an investment account, where it can grow over time and one day help pay for a new home or fund retirement.
The Angel Fund for ALS Research donated $1 million last year to support the research of Robert H. Brown Jr., DPhil, MD, the Leo P. and Theresa M. LaChance Chair in Medical Research and professor of neurology.
“We can do this because of the tremendous support of our donors, our supporters and our board. Without research, there is no cure,” said Richard Kennedy, president of the Angel Fund, a nonprofit organization that is deeply committed to supporting Dr. Brown’s research.
In a new Voices of UMassMed podcast, Kara Smith, MD, assistant professor of neurology, talks about early warning signs of Parkinson’s disease and new developments in research. She said she is optimistic that scientists will find a cure in her lifetime.
The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) is hosting a “Diversity Lunch and Learn” event on Thursday, March 5 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the W.E.B. Du Bois Library, room 2601.
The Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality at UMass Dartmouth will celebrate its 50th anniversary this year as the second-oldest women’s collegiate center in the country with a dinner on Wednesday, March 18 at 6:00 p.m. in Woodland Commons.
The UMass Diabetes Center of Excellence has established the Glass Family Fellow in Diabetes Research, through a gift from Scott and Patricia Glass. It was presented to Richard A.
Matt Naegar, a senior trumpet major, recently performed as part of this year’s Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Jazz Orchestra (MACJO) in Rockville, MD. Seniors Jacob Kaplan, saxophone; Ben Powell; guitar, as well as freshman Coleman Hover, piano, were chosen as alternates for the prestigious event.
On Tuesday, Feb. 25, the UMass Amherst Department of Music and Dance will present its third annual Bezanson Legacy Concert featuring works by composers with ties to the university’s music program. The event is held each year to recognize the legacy of acclaimed composer and former department chair Philip Bezanson. The concert will take place at 7:30 p.m. in Bezanson Recital Hall, and is free and open to the public.
AMHERST, Mass. – In a new paper, climate scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution propose that massive amounts of melting sea ice in the Arctic drained into the North Atlantic and disrupted climate-steering currents, thus playing an important role in causing past abrupt climate change after the last Ice Age, from about 8,000 to 13,000 years ago. Details of how they tested this idea for the first time are online now in Geology.