Anatomy, doctoring skills and genetic classes await 162 new medical students at UMass Medical School. The School of Medicine welcomed the Class of 2023 on Monday, Aug. 5. The diverse class comprises 94 women and 68 men, including 115 from Massachusetts and 47 from out of state. Twenty-four are from economically and educationally disadvantaged backgrounds and 14 from backgrounds underrepresented in medicine.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has announced Camp Shriver at UMass Boston as one of 12 finalists for the 2019 Sports Award, an honor recognizing professional teams, individuals, and organizations that strengthen and serve communities through sport. Winners will be honored on November 7, during an awards presentation at the foundation’s headquarters in Princeton, N.J.
UMass Boston PhD student Shannon Hughley is the latest student in the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program to be honored with a national diversity award.
Kiara Hill says attending this year's Center for Curatorial Leadership/Mellon Foundation seminar in New York City revealed something very important for her. "The program showed me there is a path," Hill says. "I can stay as curious as I want to be. I knew I wanted to become a curator, but I still love to teach, I still read, and it helped me see how to use all of those skills."
Hill is a doctoral student in Afro-American studies and was one of 16 art history students selected for the sixth annual CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice.
Laboratory research experience for college students interested in biomedical sciences can be key to their future careers. As members of the UMass Medical School Summer Undergraduate Research Opportunity Class of 2019, Sang Vo and Amina Bradley are among 29 undergraduates who conducted biomedical research under the tutelage of faculty, students and postdoctoral fellows at UMMS.
An advanced weather radar array on Orchard Hill is now providing a data feed to the National Weather Service’s (NWS) Eastern Regional Headquarters. Data from the radar will be used by NWS regional forecast offices – principally in the Boston, Albany and Portland areas.
The UMass eXperimental X-band radar (UMaXX), is a collaborative effort between the Microwave Remote Sensing Laboratory (MIRSL) and the Engineering Research Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA), both part of the College of Engineering.
AMHERST, Mass. – For the fourth straight year, the University of Massachusetts Amherst ranks No. 1 for Best Campus Food in the nation. The honor was revealed today by The Princeton Review as part of its ranking of the top 20 colleges in 62 different categories for 2020.
It began modestly enough, with Manning School of Business Assoc. Teaching Prof. Ashwin Mehtataking nine students to India over winter break in 2014 for an intensive course in entrepreneurship.
The University, along with FirstLight, AMS, and Eversource, recently launched the largest public battery storage system in Massachusetts. The 520 kW system, in combination with other measures, will reduce the electrical load of the University from the grid during peak usage times.
Within months after receiving a grant from the National Institutes of Health’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to look at the connection between the ends of zebrafish chromosomes and infertility, Assistant Professor of Biology Kellee Siegfrie