BOSTON – In August 2019, the five-campus University of Massachusetts system endorsed the 10 principles of the Age-Friendly University, as defined by Age-Friendly University (AFU) Global Network at Dublin City University, joining an international effort intended to highlight the role of higher education in responding to the challenges and opportunities associated with an aging population.
Congressman Stephen Lynch visited UMass Boston on Tuesday, kicking off the McCormack Graduate School’s “Your Congress” series with a wide-ranging discussion with students, faculty, and staff on issues from health care and diversity to student debt and climate change.
Your Congress aims to bring each member of the Massachusetts delegation to campus on a rotating basis, providing opportunities to hear from those who represent us in Washington, according to McCormack Dean David Cash.
The university recently welcomed over 150 new faculty to campus this year. To begin their time on campus, new faculty participated in a week of onboarding activities, beginning with the new faculty orientation, hosted by the Office of Faculty Development.
AMHERST, Mass. – A team of researchers headed by Chaitra Gopalappa, an engineer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has been awarded a four-year, $1.2-million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Smart and Connected Health program to develop a multi-disease model of interrelated diseases for studying the impact of public health investments on overall health. This multidisciplinary project involves engineering, computer science, and social sciences research aimed at building new decision-analytic models for informing national and global public health decisions.
An innovative partnership has brought 20 first-year students from Washington D.C., to UMass Lowell on merit scholarships for the first time.
The students all came through the District of Columbia College Access Program (DC-CAP), a nonprofit that prepares students in public and public charter high schools to succeed in college through counseling and scholarships. Since it was founded 20 years ago, DC-CAP has helped thousands of students, many of them from low-income and minority households, pursue a college education.
In concluding the largest comprehensive fundraising campaign in the history of UMass Medical School, Chancellor Michael F. Collins has announced that the Medical School surpassed its $250 million goal, raising $279 million in philanthropic gifts and pledges from individuals, corporations and foundations.
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.
AMHERST, Mass. – The international team of astronomers of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) mission – including eight from the University of Massachusetts Amherst – who earlier this year unveiled the first direct image of a supermassive black hole and its shadow, were awarded the 2020 Breakthrough Prize this month by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation founded by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, among others.