AMHERST, Mass. – Breastfeeding women with a pathogenic BRCA1 or BRCA2 genetic mutation face a significant risk, even at a young age, of breast and ovarian cancer. Yet no fully effective breast cancer screening method exists for nursing mothers in this high-risk group, some of whom are diagnosed after the disease has spread, possibly becoming fatally metastatic.

The School of Public Health and Health Sciences (SPHHS) has announced the appointment of Christopher Greenfield as its new associate dean of administration and finance. Greenfield brings 16 years of strategic leadership experience to the school, most recently as the administrative director of primary care at Baystate Health in Springfield.

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh has appointed Professor of Latin American and Iberian Studies Reyes Coll-Tellechea and six others to the city’s reactivated Human Rights Commission, which has a special focus on immigration.

UMass Dartmouth and the SouthCoast Development Partnership are happy to announce that BankFive has pledged $75,000 over a three-year period to support regional economic development through identifying Blue Economy-related industry and workforce training opportunities.

The American Cancer Society recently reported a drop in the overall cancer death rate in the U.S., with an overall 29% decline in cancer deaths from 1991 to 2017.

This resulted in 2.9 million fewer deaths over this span.

A service-learning class put honors nursing student Marbella Leal ’19 on the path of community service. 

AMHERST, Mass. –This academic year marks the 50th anniversary of the East Asian languages and cultures (EALC) program in the department of languages, literatures, and cultures at UMass Amherst. EALC, formerly Asian languages and literatures, was started in 1969 under the guidance of the late William Naff. Its original mission was to teach Chinese and Japanese language and literature. Over the years, it has grown to incorporate new fields, such as language pedagogy and linguistics, and Korean Language and culture.

Tony Maroulis, executive director of External Relations and University Events at UMass Amherst, is being honored with the Helen Mitchell Community Service award by CHD’s Family Outreach of Amherst (FOA).

AMHERST, Mass. – The University of Massachusetts Amherst is proceeding to solicit proposals from private developers to construct new undergraduate and graduate housing and student family housing.

AMHERST, Mass. – With a $1 million grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation, neuroscience researchers at Washington State University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst will explore whether variations in brain levels of bacterial fragments can account for life’s sleep/wake and 24-hour cycles, known as circadian rhythms.