Sally C. Kent, PhD, associate professor of medicine in the Diabetes Center of Excellence, has been named the George F. and Sybil H. Fuller Foundation Term Chair in Diabetes. Dr. Kent studies autoimmune response in type 1 diabetes. Her lab is credited with uncovering new information on how autoreactive T cells target beta cells in islets, a breakthrough that will contribute to the design of therapies for people with type 1 diabetes.
An editorial in the journal Medical Care by UMass Medical School public health experts calls for legislators and policymakers to take bold action on gun control, similar to the recent ban in Massachusetts on vaping products in response to lung illnesses in vaping device and e-cigarette users.
AMHERST, Mass. – Imagine the impact on first-year college student-athletes in highly competitive programs if you could teach them resilience – if they learned skills to cope with high expectations, challenging academic courses, rigorous training and physical injuries, homesickness and even the stressors of life beyond college.
Last month, UMass Boston Distinguished Professor of Biology Kamal Bawa received the UNESCO Sultan Qaboos Prize for Environmental Conservation on behalf of the research institute he founded in India twenty years ago. The Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) is located in Bangalore and is now ranked among the world’s top 20 environmental think tanks.
The UMass Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research recently announced the BayCoast Bank White Paper Series. The Series will consist of three research articles per year that take a comprehensive look at the social media habits of Fortune 500 companies and industries plus topical studies.
Laura Vandenberg, associate professor of environmental health sciences, who was recently recognized as among the world’s most highly cited scientists, gave a talk explaining her research on harmful chemicals found in plastic at the first annual Plastic Health Summit held in Amsterdam earlier this fall. Her presentation focused on how early life exposure to chemicals and chemical mixtures can predispose individuals to diseases that manifest later in life.
AMHERST, Mass. – The public is invited to observe sunrise and sunset on the day of the winter solstice among the standing stones of the UMass Amherst Sunwheel on Saturday, Dec. 21, at 7:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Heavy rain or snow will cancel the gatherings.
UMass Boston celebrated the opening of the Catherine Frisone Scott Center for Italian Cultural Studies with a panel discussion and reception on Wednesday in a packed Alumni Lounge. The Italian consul general (below, to the left of Interim Chancellor Katherine S. Newman) and guests from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and Brown University were among those in attendance.
Today, UMass Dartmouth signed the “Commitment Towards a goal of Zero Carbon Emissions”. This aspirational commitment sets a goal of achieving zero carbon emissions by 2030, or alternatively 2050 (the standard now being considered for Massachusetts), and preparing students to live and work in a sustainable manner, conducting research that encourages climate sustainability and resilience, and keeping the University community fully informed regarding progress related to environmental sustainability and climate resilience.
A new study led by Robert Wellman, PhD, finds that if teenagers learn to recognize when they’re feeling down and how to manage those emotions, they ‘re less likely to self-medicate through alcohol. This addresses the question of which comes first: depression leading to drinking or drinking leading to depression.