Workplace Learning and Development (WLD) has announced that 22 supervisors from various departments across campus completed the university’s Leadership Academy: Foundations of Supervision program. This Fall, the first cohort completed the multi-modal learning program which included a total of three days of in-person training, seven Moodle online courses and a final project presentation. The program’s instructors were Margaret Arsenault, Paul Papierski, and Melissa Scheid Frantz from WLD.
AMHERST, Mass. – From arthritis and heart failure to diabetes and menopause, many conditions are associated with muscle weakness and increased fat deposits.
Now a multidisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is applying a unique approach to examine the effects of fat tissue on skeletal muscle structure and function in young and older men and women.
UMass Lowell has opened a state-of-the-art lyophilization facility that will help drive innovation and discovery in biopharmaceutical manufacturing in New England and beyond.
The Graduate School of Nursing at UMass Medical School is in the top ranks of the best nursing schools nationally, regionally and locally, according to Nursing Schools Almanac. The GSN is ranked second among the top schools in Massachusetts, fourth in New England, 21st nationwide among public schools, and 38th among public and private schools nationwide.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced that Ph.D. student Zachary Marc Fink and polymer scientist Thomas Russell’s lab has been selected to receive its Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) award. It will support his research project, “Imaging Nanoparticle Jamming at Liquid: Liquid Interfaces by Real-Time, In-Situ TEM.”
DOE says the award was given in recognition of Fink’s “outstanding academic accomplishments,” the merit of his research proposal, and his potential to make important contributions to the mission of the DOE Office of Science.
A team led by director of the Gloucester Marine Station Adrian Jordaan and including ecologists Michelle Staudinger and Allison Roy of the U.S. Geological Survey recently received support for their study of migrating alewife and blueback herring in freshwater, river and estuary environments.
Professors Emery Berger, Prashant Shenoy and Ramesh Sitaraman of the College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) have been named Fellow by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world's largest educational and scientific computing society.
UMass Boston’s Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI) has named Cindy Thomas, MS, CRC its new director. Thomas has worked for ICI for more than 30 years, most recently serving as interim director.
UMass Lowell has once again been recognized for its comprehensive sustainability efforts across campus, this time with a 2019 Leading by Example award from the commonwealth of Massachusetts.
The 11th annual Winter Ball held on Friday, Dec. 6, raised more than $1.3 million to help support the clinical care, education and biomedical research missions of UMass Medical School and UMass Memorial Medical Center. This is the fourth consecutive year that fundraising has exceeded $1 million.