A packed room of former colleagues, community collaborators, and alumni gathered on Monday, November 4, to celebrate the life and accomplishments of UMass Boston’s longest serving chancellor, Sherry H. Penney, remembering her as a pioneer, a leader, and a collaborator.
Penney passed away in May at the age of 81.
Two of UMass Boston’s fall sports teams—volleyball and women’s soccer—are headed to the NCAA Tournament after winning Little East Conference Tournament titles on Saturday.
Volleyball to Face No. 18 Babson College on Friday
UMass Boston’s volleyball team will play No. 18 Babson College at Tufts University on Friday in the first round of the NCAA Regional Tournament. The start time has not yet been announced.
“We’re ready to keep this season going,” said Interim Head Coach Kate Carlson ’10.
Prof. William Moylan, who brought UML’s nationally renowned Sound Recording Technology Program from silence to full volume more than three decades ago, has been named the 2019 Distinguished University Professor.
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).