Antibiotic-resistant germs are rapidly developing around the world and a multipronged approach will be needed to combat this pressing public health threat, said drug resistance expert and investigator Celia Schiffer, PhD, in reaction to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report on the severity of the problem.
Research + Patience = Profit
That’s the simple equation that helped a team of Manning School of Business students defend UMass Lowell’s crown in the Student Managed Fund challenge, an annual investing competition sponsored by the UMass Foundation.
A new study by UMass Boston researchers recommends that state officials do more to address gambling addiction in Asian American communities.
The state-funded study, led by Institute for Asian American Studies (IAAS) researcher Carolyn Wong, examined the casino gambling practices of residents and workers in Boston’s Chinatown through a number of face-to-face interviews in the community.
AMHERST, Mass. – The Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst reminds Ware students that they are eligible for the Charles P. McQuaid scholarship, which will cover approximately 70% of in-state tuition and fees. One new scholarship is awarded yearly for incoming students from Ware and its surrounding communities.
A campus team led by research professor Beverly Woolf of the College of Information and Computer Science (CICS) recently received a one-year, $838,722 grant from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Convergence Accelerator program to support their project to create a tool for workers to analyze their profiles and skills and identify training and education to aid their career paths.
Kevin Young, assistant professor of history, appeared on the program “Democracy Now!” on Wednesday, Nov. 13 to discuss the political turmoil engulfing the South American country of Bolivia, and whether the removal of former president Evo Morales can be considered a military coup.
To support a broadly shared Graphic Processing Unit (GPU)-enabled high-performance computing cluster for the Institute for Applied Sciences (IALS), computational biophysicist Jianhan Chen, chemistry and biochemistry and molecular biology, with others, recently was awarded a two-year, $415,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) that will fill what Chen calls “a critical need” for enabling computation-intensive research activities on campus.
Chancellor Kumble R. Subbaswamy, an Indiana University (IU) Bloomington alumnus, will be presented with an honorary degree during the bicentennial winter commencement on Saturday, Dec. 21.
IU will confer honorary degrees, the highest academic honor the university can bestow, to Subbaswamy and Dan Coats, former U.S. senator and director of national intelligence.
A 2008 federal parity law succeeded in expanding Medicaid acceptance by treatment facilities for substance use disorders (SUDs), according to a study by University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers.
What remains unclear is the extent to which this enhanced coverage has led to more people receiving SUD treatment. In 2016, less than 20 percent of the estimated 21 million people with substance use disorders received any treatment for it, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
AMHERST, Mass. – University of Massachusetts Amherst Distinguished Professor David Julian McClements was honored Monday in Hillerød, Denmark, with the 2019 Nils Foss Excellence Prize for his pioneering work in food design and nanotechnology.