For years, science and engineering educators, social scientists, industry leaders and policymakers in Massachusetts have struggled to expand and diversify the STEM workforce, each coming at the problem from different disciplinary and institutional perspectives, says professor of psychology Nilanjana “Buju” Dasgupta, director of the campus’s Institute of Diversity Sciences (IDS).
AMHERST, Mass. – In two highly anticipated reports about the economic impacts of MGM Springfield, University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers found that the resort-casino’s construction was felt in every corner of the Commonwealth, and its development has been part of the strengthening housing and real estate markets of Greater Springfield.
VA Central Western Massachusetts Healthcare System and UMass Medical School will build a new, community-based outpatient clinic (CBOC) for veterans, projected to open in 2021, on the campus of UMass Medical School in Worcester. The CBOC will occupy 53,000 square feet on the first two levels of a new, four-story clinical building, which will total 100,000 square feet.
In an effort to give back to their community while creating career opportunities in the legal professions, Hispanic members of the New Bedford Police Department have begun a scholarship at UMass Law. On September 24, Banessa Gonzalez, a third-year UMass Law student, became the inaugural recipient of the Hispanic Police Officers of New Bedford Scholarship.
AMHERST, Mass. – A University of Massachusetts Amherst interdisciplinary research team has received a $3.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to measure the impact of a diet rich in fruits and vegetables on the breast cancer risk of lactating women.
Jenia Tevelev, professor in the department of mathematics and statistics, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to Chile. Tevelev will conduct research and lecture at Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago as part of a project called “New Frontiers of Algebraic Geometry.”
The UMass Dartmouth Observatory and the Astronomical Society of Southern New England (ASSNE) are pleased to invite the university community and the public to their free fall night-sky observation sessions at the campus observatory. Viewing will take place through the observatory's 16-inch telescope and other telescopes operated by ASSNE members.
For fall 2019, the Observatory is scheduled to hold observation sessions on:
Under the warm sun of the last official day of summer, thousands of people, many wearing team colors, converged on the UMass Medical School campus in Worcester on Sunday, Sept. 22, for the 2019 UMass Cancer Walk and Run.
Their collective effort, and the generosity of sponsors, helped organizers meet their goal of raising $750,000 to support adult and pediatric cancer research and care, and to fund clinical trials of new cancer therapies.
A team of UMass Amherst researchers has received a three-year, $460,000 National Science Foundation Research Coordination Network grant for a project aimed to help better understand the interplay between policy design and human behavior.
AMHERST, Mass. – Ocean Vuong, an assistant professor in the Masters of Fine Arts Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, today was named a 2019 MacArthur Fellow in the Fiction and Non-Fiction Writing category.
Vuong, a poet and novelist, is the author of the current best-seller "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous," his first novel. The book was also recently long-listed for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction.