Six undergraduates from across campus have received the fall Rising Researcher award.
The Rising Researcher program celebrates undergraduate students who excel in research, scholarship or creative activity.
The fall 2019 Rising Researchers are:
In May 2020, Keryann Estrela and her daughter, Hailey Angel Allard, 20, planned to graduate together from the College of Nursing & Health Sciences (CNHS), Estrela with a doctor of nursing practice degree and Allard with a bachelor of science.
Those plans were tragically derailed in August 2018 when Hailey’s car was hit by a speeding police cruiser as she was coming home from work, just a few hundred yards from her house. She had recently celebrated her 20th birthday.
Ann and Roosevelt Tsewole were enjoying, by their own measure, a “great life.”
UMass Medical School is part of a new nationwide policy initiative to improve employment outcomes for teenagers and young adults with disabilities, including for the first time a focus on those with mental health disabilities. Youth mental health services and policy experts Marsha Langer Ellison, PhD, and Maryann Davis, PhD, bring the expertise of the UMMS Transitions to Adulthood Center for Research to a four-year, $4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to establish the National Policy Development Center for Preparing Youth and Young Adults with Disabilities for Employment.
The “Jeopardy!”-style quiz created by physical therapy students triggered discussions, laughter and teamwork among high school students at the Lowell Middlesex Academy Charter School. The high school students wagered points, competed in small groups and, along the way, learned about health and wellness.
Scot Bateman, MD, professor of pediatrics and anesthesiology at UMass Medical School, has been named clinical ethicist at UMass Memorial Medical Center and UMMS, according to an announcement by Andrew Karson, MD, MPH, chief medical officer and senior vice president at UMass Memorial Medical Center.
AMHERST, Mass. – Many high-risk people eligible for medication to prevent HIV infection face barriers to obtaining a prescription, according to research by University of Massachusetts Amherst psychologist Avy Skolnik.
The National Institute on Aging has awarded investigators in UMass Boston’s College of Nursing and Health Sciences a one-year $523,133 grant to conduct pilot studies on the impact of a Tai Chi program compared to a light physical exercise program on older adults.
UMass Boston Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Gail DiSabatino has been named this year’s recipient of the Scott Goodnight Award for outstanding performance as a dean/vice president from Region I of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA).
“I am humbled to receive this award,” DiSabatino said. “It is a privilege to have the opportunity to serve this campus and its students. To be recognized by one’s professional peers for that service is a great honor.”
UMass Dartmouth announces its newest research group, the Community Research and Partnership Initiative (CoRPI). CoRPI will work with community partners and stakeholders to build long-term collaborations to benefit their social, economic, educational, ecological and physical well-being.