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.
An innovative partnership has brought 20 first-year students from Washington D.C., to UMass Lowell on merit scholarships for the first time.
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.
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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.