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.
Chancellor Michael F. Collins and the UMass Medical School community acknowledge with sadness the passing of Pete Frates, who raised millions of dollars for ALS research and whose indefatigable spirit remains an inspiration to all who work tirelessly to find a therapy for this disease. According to a statement from his family, Frates died on Monday, Dec. 9, at age 34.
Chair and Professor of Engineering Greg Sun is a new fellow of The Optical Society (OSA). Sun is being honored for his technical innovation and seminal work in optoelectronics, Si photonics, and plasmonics, a rapidly developing field at the boundary of physical optics and condensed matter physics.
On any given day, about one in 31 hospital patients in the U.S. picks up at least one health-care-associated infection, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The U.S. Department of Education recently funded a four-year, $1.18 million efficacy study of MathSpring, a research-based, game-like intelligent math tutor developed by research professor Beverly Woolf in the College of Information and Computer Sciences and her long-time collaborator Ivon Arroyo, now an associate professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. The institutions will share funding and focus on teachers and their classrooms in Massachusetts.