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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AMHERST, Mass. – While government employment is commonly believed to be controlled by neutral, formal pay structures, new research from a team of researchers led by University of Massachusetts Amherst sociologist Laurel Smith-Doerr has found that in a number of science-based federal agencies, gaps and differential implementation in current standardization schemes create gendered outcomes.
AMHERST, Mass. — For the fifth consecutive year, the University of Massachusetts Amherst has been named to the Princeton Review’s list of Top 50 Green Colleges.
The list is included in the new 2019 edition of “The Princeton Review Guide to 413 Green Colleges” released online Oct. 22. Ranked No. 30 this year out of the 413 schools profiled, UMass Amherst was also among the Top 50 in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018.
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services has awarded faculty members in UMass Boston’s Curriculum and Instruction and Counseling and School Psychology departments a five-year $1.1 million grant to prepare master’s-level students to serve infants, toddlers, and preschool-age children with disabilities and their families.
UMass Boston's Division of Enrollment Management welcomed 753 students to campus this past Saturday, October 19 for Open House. These prospective Beacons were accompanied by 1,025 guests, including their parents, siblings, and friends — making a grand total of 1,778 visitors.
Representatives from across the university shared information about UMass Boston’s academics, student life, financial aid, athletics, housing opportunities, and the application process.
The Massachusetts Board of Higher Education approved a Bachelor of Science in Interior Architecture and Design (IAD) at UMass Dartmouth yesterday, establishing the only accredited program of its kind at a public university in New England. The program had previously been approved by the UMass Board of Trustees.
First-year student Michaela Wakefield enrolled at UML this fall as a political science major because she had become passionate about political activism in high school.
Two young children with Tay-Sachs disease were treated safely at UMass Memorial Medical Center with a gene therapy developed at UMass Medical School and, in one case, the child's condition has stabilized, according to an interview published by WBUR with Terence R. Flotte, MD.