After a period of extensive outreach and careful preparation, the University of Massachusetts has launched its search for a permanent chancellor for UMass Boston with the creation of a committee that is as distinguished and diverse as the campus itself.
Faculty members form the core of the search committee, with eight of panel’s 21 members holding academic positions at the University: five UMB faculty members, two UMB deans, and the vice chancellor for research at UMass Lowell.
AMHERST, Mass. – The University of Massachusetts Amherst will welcome an outstanding academic entering class, and the largest in university history, when students return to the Commonwealth’s flagship campus over Labor Day weekend.
BOSTON — The UMass Boston Chancellor Search Committee, holding its inaugural meeting, today launched an effort to attract “world-class candidates” for the 16,000-student urban public research university.
Search committee member Robert Lewis, founder and president of The BASE, said the task ahead was identifying and recruiting candidates capable of leading “a world-class institution for a world-class city.”
UMass Boston raised $23.8 million in fiscal year 2019, setting a new annual record for fundraising in the university’s 55-year history. The previous record was $17.6 million.
The fundraising total more than doubled the $10.5 million campus goal set by the UMass System and nearly tripled the amount raised in fiscal year 2018. UMass Boston this past year also completed its $100 million fundraising campaign, Just Imagine, which raised $114.6 million and was the most ambitious campaign in the university’s history.
A group of UMass Medical School students have dedicated themselves to guiding and advising teen mothers. The Mentors for Young Mothers student group facilitates health education workshops and discussions at residential programs for teen mothers in Worcester.
“Mentors for Young Mothers has been the highlight of my medical school experience, and the lessons I have learned from working with this often overlooked population are invaluable,” said Emily Adler, a second-year student in the School of Medicine.
Midway through her junior season with the UMass Lowell softball team, shortstop Courtney Cashman got a phone call from a River Hawk alumna.
“You realize you’re leading the nation in hitting, don’t you?” the former player asked her.
As a managing director at BlackRock, a global investment management firm and the world’s largest asset manager, Ludwig Marek ’98 appreciates the value of data.
It’s something the Swiss native learned almost 25 years ago as a member of the UMass Lowell men’s hockey team.
“I remember our coach, Bruce Crowder, had a saying: The numbers don’t lie,” says Marek, who recalls Crowder waving his stat sheet at him and pointing out things like penalty minutes and plus-minuses.
AMHERST, Mass. – An analysis of policy research on nearly 50 years of school vaccine mandates has found that while vaccine requirements are commonly considered to have made a major, if not essential, contribution to vaccine coverage in the United States, the causal relations between mandates and population vaccination remains unclear. The findings were published online this week by the Canadian Medical Association Journal’s CMAJ Open.
AMHERST, Mass. – Foods fried in vegetable oil are popular worldwide, but research about the health effects of this cooking technique has been largely inconclusive and focused on healthy people. For the first time, UMass Amherst food scientists set out to examine the impact of frying oil consumption on inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and colon cancer, using animal models.
AMHERST, Mass. – A recent study by economists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has – for the first time – found a link between exposure to air pollution during early childhood with the development of arthritis later in adult life.