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.
James F. Manwell, director of the Wind Energy Center and professor of mechanical and industrial engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, was the primary author of a section of a wind-energy paper just published in the journal Science. The article also generated the theme – the Grand Vision for Wind Energy – of the NAWEA/WindTech 2019 conference taking place at UMass Amherst Oct. 14-16.
The Harvard Forest, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and Highstead Foundation, along with their partners in Academics for Land Protection in New England (ALPINE), today recognized the University of Massachusetts Amherst with the Charles H.W. Foster Award for Academic Leadership in Land Conservation. The ceremony was held in the Olver Design Building, a wood building on campus that permanently sequesters an estimated 2,000 tons of carbon, the equivalent of taking 400 cars off the road for a year.
UMass Medical School geriatrics expert Jennifer Tjia, MD, MSCE, interspersed personal reflection with scholarly analysis in a JAMA Internal Medicine editorial on a study that found telephone support for caretakers of family members with dementia can improve quality of life for patients and caregivers.
UMass Medical School clinician-scientist Jason Shohet, MD, PhD, accepted a $300,000 grant on Monday, Sept. 23, from the Hyundai Motor America Hope on Wheels campaign to continue his work toward developing more effective and less toxic therapies for childhood cancers with a special focus on neuroblastoma.