Eight faculty members from UMass Boston's College of Liberal Arts have received grants to develop innovative humanities courses as part of UMass Boston's High Impact Humanities Initiative. Support by a three-year $515,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation, this initiative connects curriculum, community, and careers with the aim of ensuring greater student interest and academic success in the humanities.
A group of local food and beverage companies huddled on campus recently to learn more about sustainable manufacturing and cleaning processes as well as available resources, including grants and technical assistance, that can help them reduce energy and water use and cut down on toxics and waste.
The 162 members of the School of Medicine Class of 2023 at UMass Medical School were cloaked in the symbol of the medical profession at the White Coat Ceremony on Friday, Sept. 13, under a tent on the campus green.
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U.S. News & World Report 2020 College Rankings released this week recognize UMass Dartmouth for the upward social mobility of its students and again rank the university as a National University. UMass Dartmouth, the only nationally ranked Massachusetts doctoral research university located south of Boston, first moved into the national category in the 2017 edition of the rankings.
Students will get a chance to embark on a visual tour of our solar system and beyond when a new astronomical observatory opens on South Campus this fall.
The facility, which is scheduled to be completed by mid-November, will feature a Celestron 14-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope on a heavy-duty computerized mount. It will provide high-resolution views of the craters and lava plains on the moon, the satellites of Jupiter and its cloud belts and the rings of Saturn, as well as star clusters, galaxies and nebulae light-years away.
The UMass Medical School community will come together this week to celebrate student and faculty accomplishments and officially launch the new academic year. The signature event, Convocation, will be held in the Albert Sherman Center auditorium on Thursday, Sept. 12, at 4 p.m., when Chancellor Michael F. Collins will deliver his annual address and present the 2019 Chancellor’s Medals for excellence in teaching, scholarship, service and clinical excellence.
UMass Boston physics major and Honors College student Joseph Farah is sharing in a $3 million Breakthrough Prize for being part of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration that took the first image of a black hole in April. When the image was recorded, Farah was the only undergraduate on the 347-member team.
School for the Environment Interim Dean Bob Chen has put ostriches on the MBTA to tell people about climate change, and he’s let kids do the talking through their artwork on the T.
Thirty graduate students marked an educational and professional milestone at their Graduate Entry Pathway (GEP) Pinning Ceremony at UMass Medical School on Monday, Sept. 9. The members of the GEP Class of 2022 took an oath to practice their profession of nursing faithfully and received pins unique to the GSN symbolizing their entry into the profession.