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.
A team of UML student entrepreneurs hoping to help physical therapy patients walk more easily outdoors bested the competition from several universities, including runners-up Harvard and MIT, at the 7th annual Beantown Throwdown competition.
The Beantown Throwdown is the largest college pitch-off in Boston, an event that draws top student entrepreneur teams to pitch their startups. Thirteen teams representing Tufts, Northeastern, Boston College and Brandeis also competed. The Nov. 19 event drew a sellout audience of 200 to software company LogMeIn’s Cambridge headquarters.
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.”