AMHERST, Mass. – A new international report into the latest trends in digital campaigns during the 2019 midterm elections in the Philippines has found that underground digital operations are becoming more prevalent, manipulative and exploitative, posing a serious threat to global electoral integrity.

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.