As UMass Lowell embarks on a new year – and a new decade – our university community can look forward to astronomy- and space-related projects and missions on the horizon. From exploring the solar system and searching for habitable planets around nearby stars to zapping the Martian surface with a laser, our faculty and student researchers are working to gain a better understanding of the cosmic neighborhood in which we live. Here’s an overview of what’s in store in the months ahead.
When Sgt. Michael Soucy joined the UMass Lowell Police Department in 2008, the force consisted of just eight patrol officers headquartered at Ball Hall. The department had one four-wheel-drive vehicle to get through the snowy winters.
“The police department was a very different place back then,” Soucy recalls. As a 20-year veteran of the police department in Nashua, N.H., Soucy soon missed the structure and cohesiveness of that job, and by early 2010, he was planning his exit from UML.
A program developed at UMass Medical School to ensure that women with depression during or after pregnancy get the help they need is being replicated across the country, according to an NPR Morning Edition report on the Massachusetts Child Psychiatry Access Program for Moms (MCPAP for Moms).
A bomb goes off at one entrance to a crowded sports stadium. There are multiple casualties, and the exit is blocked.
You’re in charge of the response, and you have moments to make a critical decision. Do you rush first responders to the scene through other entrances, knowing that a second bomb could detonate and kill them as well? Or do you first clear the area and send in bomb-sniffing dogs, knowing that some of the injured might die?
AMHERST, Mass. - Five Colleges, Incorporated has been awarded a $2.5 million, four-year grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to help its member campuses transform how they approach Native American and Indigenous studies (NAIS), with the goal of enhancing teaching, learning and scholarship in the field. The grant is one of the largest made by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to the consortium to date, and is also one of the consortium’s largest grant awards from any funder in its 50-year history.
AMHERST, Mass. – Online bachelor’s degree programs at the University of Massachusetts Amherst rank 23rd nationally, according to a survey released by U.S. News & World Report, which also listed the university 18th for online baccalaureate programs for veterans.
The list of the 358 schools with the best online bachelor’s programs for 2020 is based on weighted factors in student engagement, faculty credentials and training, student services and technology and peer reputation. The weighting varied among programs.
AMHERST, Mass. – A new approach to studying the effects of two common chemicals used in cosmetics and sunscreens found they can cause DNA damage in breast cells at surprisingly low concentrations, while the same dose did not harm cells without estrogen receptors.
Panayotis “Panos” Kevrekidis, Distinguished University Professor and professor of mathematics and statistics, recently was named a member of the 2020 Class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) for “contributions in applied mathematics, especially in the theory and applications of nonlinear waves.” He is one of just 52 mathematical scientists from around the world to be recognized by their peers in the program, now in its eighth year.
The start of 2020 marks the launch of a new statewide initiative called Resolution Massachusetts to be announced at a State House briefing for legislators on January 21, and it could not be timelier.
UMass Boston’s online graduate education programs have jumped 19 spots in U.S. News & World Report’s 2020 Best Online Programs rankings, released today. UMass Boston’s online graduate education programs are ranked No. 35, up from No. 54 in 2019. UMass Boston has four online undergraduate programs. Collectively, those are ranked No. 93 on the list of Best Online Bachelor’s Programs.