AMHERST, Mass. – An international team of researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and universities in China and Singapore, is using artificial intelligence to develop a system that minimizes the dosage of drugs used to treat human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as a way to reduce side effects. The findings are published in the journal Advanced Therapeutics.
At the 133rd meeting of the SouthCoast Chamber of Commerce, UMass Law students and the UMass Law Community Development Clinic were awarded the 2019 Education Leadership award for their legal work.
On November 23 in Fall River and New Bedford, the Leduc Center for Civic Engagement and the respective city’s Police Departments held “Guns for Groceries”. The program offered Market Basket gift cards and Domino’s pizza coupons for guns. This year, 116 firearms and large amounts of ammunition were collected in the cities.
On December 3 at 6 p.m. at the Greasy Luck Brewpub in New Bedford, UMass Dartmouth School for Marine Science & Technology students Mitchelle Agonsi, Ashleigh Novak, and Amanda Hart will present “Changing Oceans, Moving Fish: How Can the Science that Informs Fisheries Management Keep Up?” at the latest New Bedford Science Café.
Greek immigrants have had an outsized impact on the history of Lowell and the region.
A century ago, Lowell hosted the largest community of Greek immigrants outside of New York and Chicago. It was the first stop in the United States for many people emigrating from Greece and became the home of many of the earliest Greek American institutions.
The caller ID on Ellen Keane's phone said "Sony Pictures." Her first instinct was to ignore it, but...what if it was a focus group for a new movie coming out? She answered the call, thinking she might get some free movie tickets out of the deal.
“Hey Ellen, it’s ‘Jeopardy!’ calling,” said the voice on the other end of the line. “We’d like to have you come out and be on the show.”
Twenty-three medical students in the School of Medicine Class of 2020, four faculty members, six house staff and three alumni were inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. The induction ceremony was held at UMass Medical School on Wednesday, Nov. 20.
AMHERST, Mass. – One of the more complex problems facing social psychologists today is whether any intervention can move people to change their behavior about climate change and protecting the environment for the sake of future generations.
AMHERST, Mass. – Seventy years ago, science fiction writer Isaac Asimov imagined a world where robots would serve humans in countless ways, and he equipped them with built-in safeguards now known as Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics, to prevent them, among other goals, from ever harming a person.
AMHERST, Mass. – Despite restrictions on paid advertising cannabis on social media, most teenagers reported seeing marijuana marketing on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, according to a public health study authored by University of Massachusetts Amherst injury prevention researcher Jennifer Whitehill.