UMass Dartmouth students more than doubled their participation in the 2018 mid-term elections compared to the 2014 mid-term, according to a recent study, similar to national trends indicating increased voting among college students.
At UMass Dartmouth, 34.6 percent of students voted in 2018 compared to 16.9 percent in 2014. In addition, the voter registration rate for UMass Dartmouth students rose from 70.6 percent to 77.8 percent.
Amir Mitchell, PhD, assistant professor of molecular medicine in the Program in Systems Biology, has received the Maximizing Investigators' Research Award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to support research into cellular decoding of signaling dynamics.
Dr. Mitchell will use the five-year, nearly $2.1 million grant to study how intracellular dysfunctions, as mutations, corrupt information encoding and which cellular processes need to be targeted in order to restore proper encoding.
A new study by researchers at UMass Medical School and the University of Queensland in Australia examining a retrovirus in koala bears reveals new insights into the genetic evolution of vertebrates, according to media reports in the New York Times and STAT.
UMass Medical School received a $365,000 grant to collaborate with the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review to examine the clinical and economic value of future therapies to treat and prevent Alzheimer’s disease.
Jerry Gurwitz, MD, the Dr. John Meyers Professor of Primary Care Medicine, professor of medicine, chief of the Division of Geriatric Medicine and executive director of the Meyers Primary Care Institute, will lead the research.
Today, October 10, is World Mental Health Day, and Dainius Pūras, the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to health, released an open statement on suicide prevention to mark the day. Two UMass Boston Counseling Psychology PhD candidates, Justin Karter and Zenobia Morrill, contributed to that statement, compiling the background research from which the statement is based.
Assistant Professor of Exercise and Health Sciences Huimin Yan has received a two-year, $154,000 American Heart Association Institutional Research Enhancement Award for her research of vascular health, the health of the blood vessels that provide blood to your tissues.
Associate Professor Robert Fisher (Physics) was part of an international team that recently published a research article in Nature that discovered how light reacts after a unique type of supernova.
A research team led by Asst. Prof. Gulden Camci-Unal of the Department of Chemical Engineering is developing new “breathable” biomaterials that can repair heart muscle damaged by disease or heart attack. The work is supported by a three-year grant worth nearly $300,000 from the American Heart Association.
Charlie Connolly, a junior mechanical engineering major from Braintree, is trying to teach Jacob Wilson how to shoot and score in floor hockey. But at the moment, Wilson is more interested in talking about electronics like computers, phones, cameras and alarm clocks.
Foresters and ecologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst this month released a new statewide guide, “Planting for Resilience: Selecting Urban Trees in Massachusetts,” a manual designed to help tree wardens, urban foresters, professional arborists, nonprofit volunteers and private residents in selecting and planting trees well suited to thrive in the Commonwealth’s cities and towns.