A cross-disciplinary team of scientists, led by University of Massachusetts Amherst environmental epigeneticist Richard Pilsner, will use a three-year, $1.6 million grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)to expand research into the impact of phthalate exposure on male fertility.
AMHERST, Mass. – A state matching funds program that serves as an incentive for public universities to raise funds from private sources has been adopted by the House of Representatives and the Senate in a supplementary budget.
Even with a double major in economics and American studies, senior Madeline Hertz figures she’ll one day be among the nearly 57 million Americans – or 36 percent of the U.S. workforce – taking part in the gig economy.
Americans are more divided than ever – not only along political lines, but on hot social topics such as the safety of childhood vaccines and whether marijuana use is harmful.
The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth is one of the nation's most environmentally responsible colleges according to the recently published, The Princeton Review's Guide to Green Colleges: 2019 Edition. The Princeton Review surveys administrators at hundreds of four-year colleges about their institutions’ commitments to the environment and sustainability. The ranking, which began in 2010, has featured the university for eight straight years.
UMass Medical School faculty recently traveled to China to present a course on medical education in Beijing.
The Inaugural Nursing Ph.D. Symposium, held Tuesday, Oct. 29 at the Institute of Applied Life Sciences Conference Center, gathered together a diverse consortium of scientists, community advocates, educators and entrepreneurs to explore the future of nursing and the role of nurse-scientists in promoting health, health equity and social justice.
Since its much-anticipated opening three years ago, the Cryo Electron Microscopy Core Facility at UMass Medical School has trained hundreds of scientists from the region's research universities; analyzed thousands of samples from academic and commercial labs around the country; and become a resource for faculty, postdocs and students on campus. Now the facility is expanding with new equipment, new users and a broader vision for how it can advance biomedical research underway at UMMS and beyond.
On November 1, UMass Dartmouth will host the Accelerating the Southeastern Massachusetts Marine Science and Technology Corridor: An Industry, Academia, and Government Collaboration symposium. This follows the highly successful 2018 symposium: Catching the Next Wave: Building the Blue Economy through Innovation and Collaboration.
The event will begin at 8 a.m. on November 1 in the Stoico/FIRSTFED Grand Reading Room, Claire T. Carney Library located on the main campus at 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA.
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