Yuko Oda was Jonathan Monaghan’s professor at New York Institute of Technology from 2007 to 2008, overseeing his Senior Project I and II courses. They stayed in touch and even exhibited in a group show together in China at the Beijing Today Museum.
Oda, who joined UML’s Art & Design faculty in 2017, teaches 3D/Expanded Media. And Monaghan is now a Washington, D.C.-based artist whose work paints a portrait of an increasingly angst-filled, technologically driven future.
Ten years ago, Diane Hewitt was too busy helping 28 plastics engineering majors craft their résumés, practice their interview skills and find matches with local companies to really consider what the university’s new Professional Cooperative Education program would look like a decade later.
As flu season begins, the message from health care providers remains the same: Vaccination is the single best way to protect yourself and others from the potentially life-threatening illness.
“Flu vaccinations protect us, our patients and our communities,” said Richard Ellison, MD, professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology. “Not everybody gets the flu but when one does it can be a very severe illness. If you haven’t had it before doesn’t mean you can’t get in the future.”
John P. Haran, MD, PhD, associate professor of emergency medicine and microbiology & physiological systems and clinical director of the Center for Microbiome Research, has been awarded a 2019 Alzheimer’s Association research grant to support research into how the intestinal microbiome differs in Alzheimer’s patients and whether imbalances associate with memory decline. Dr. Haran will receive approximately $150,000 over three years.
The WooHealth Hackathon taking place at UMass Medical School on Friday, Nov. 15, and Saturday, Nov. 16, will bring together students from nine Worcester colleges and universities for the city's first-of-its-kind collaboration to improve public health.
BOSTON — UMass President Marty Meehan has been appointed to a three-year term on The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) Board of Directors, the association announced at its 132nd Annual Meeting Monday. Meehan will serve as a Board Member-at-Large until November 2022.
AMHERST, Mass. – A team of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst headed by Blair Perot, professor of mechanical and industrial engineering, is developing new open source computer software for the combined simulation and control co-design of floating offshore wind turbines using a two-year, $1.175 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded UMass Boston a two-year $300,000 ADVANCE Catalyst grant to conduct a self-assessment regarding gender and racial equity among science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) faculty at UMass Boston, with the ultimate goal of developing a Five-Year Strategic Plan for STEM Faculty Equity.
Assistant Professor of Nursing Lisa Sundean, PhD, RN has received the Excellence in Policy Award from Nursing Outlook, the journal of the American Academy of Nursing.
Sundean’s article, “Nurses on Healthcare Governing Boards: An Integrative Review,” was published in 2017. This very competitive award is chosen from all articles in the journal for that particular year. The decision is made by a panel of experts, and there is no nomination process.
The Office of the Provost recently announced the winners of the Office of Undergraduate Research’s 2019 Fall Stipend Initiative. The overall quality of all the applications demonstrated the high level of undergraduate research conducted on our campus. Twenty-eight faculty members volunteered to review proposals and countless more continue to serve as mentors.
This year’s winners are:
Devin Cannistraro (Computer & Information Science), Supervisor: Professor Iren Valova - “Improving the Learning Accuracy of Convolutional Neural Networks”