Marjorie Aelion, associate vice chancellor for research and engagement and former dean of the School of Public Health and Health Sciences (SPHHS), was part of a delegation from the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) invited to the organization’s inaugural Academic Regional Meeting in Asia: Global Conference on Public Health Education in the 21st Century. The ASPPH is the voice of accredited academic public health, representing schools and programs accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH).
Together with her research partners and students, Chair and Associate Professor of Exercise and Health Sciences Julie Wright is looking to encourage black and African American women cancer survivors and their families to sit less and move more for better health in a new study funded by a U54 pilot grant.
Music education major Rachel Janielis says it's stressful when she cannot properly hear a professor speaking or a presenter talking at events.
“I remember an event at the beginning of the year when one of the people talking decided not to use a microphone,” she says. “The presenter asked if everyone could hear her and the majority of people said yes, but I could not. It was frustrating, because I missed the information.”
The race to slash carbon emissions by 2050 is well underway – on a course laid out through ambitious commitments at many levels, from the global Paris Agreement, through Massachusetts’ Global Warming Solutions Act, to the university’s Climate Action Plan.
AMHERST, Mass. – While scientists have long sought to understand the factors that structure global biodiversity patterns, much of their research has focused on present-day climate, such as patterns of temperature or rainfall, or recent human impacts well-known to influence biodiversity, like urbanization and the destruction of wild lands.
BOSTON – UMass President Martin T. Meehan and the chancellors of the five UMass campuses – UMass Amherst Chancellor Kumble R. Subbaswamy, UMass Boston Interim Chancellor Katherine S. Newman, UMass Dartmouth Chancellor Robert E. Johnson, UMass Lowell Chancellor Jacqueline F. Moloney and UMass Medical School Chancellor Michael F.
The annual Hot Chocolate Run for Safe Passage raised over $632,000 this year, with many UMass Amherst faculty, staff and students participating.
The department of sociology organized a team of 11 participants for the Dec. 8 event and raised $4,400 for Safe Passage, a Hampshire County organization addressing domestic violence. Faculty, grad students and undergraduates all took part in the event. The money was raised by selling hot chocolate in the Campus Center.
Jamila Lyiscott, assistant professor of social justice education, is being recognized as a 2019-20 UMass Amherst Spotlight Scholar.
Growing up as a first-generation American in a working-class neighborhood in Brooklyn, Lyiscott learned how to navigate the contrasts between her family’s Caribbean background and an educational system that demanded assimilation.
“On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous,” by Ocean Vuong, an assistant professor in the Masters of Fine Arts Program for Poets and Writers, has been selected by a range of publications as one of the best books of the year.
AMHERST, Mass. – In what the authors believe is one of the first studies to examine climate change impact on the timing of bird migration on a continental scale, researchers report that spring migrants were likely to pass certain stops earlier now than they would have 20 years ago. Also, temperature and migration timing were closely aligned, with the greatest changes in migration timing occurring in the regions warming most rapidly. Timing shifts were less apparent in fall, they add.