After dedicating several years to their individual research, teaching, and publishing, 70 of UMass Boston's 83 doctoral candidates were honored on May 30 at the university's annual doctoral hooding ceremony.
Bala Sundaram, vice provost for research and dean of Graduate Studies, called the event a "unique facet" of the campus's weeklong commencement exercises.
It was clear early on into UMass Boston's graduate commencement ceremony that those earning master's and doctoral degrees were ready for this day. Shortly into Interim Chancellor Katherine S. Newman's welcoming remarks, the students let out a loud cheer when she started listing their disciplines, beginning with chemistry.
UMass Medical School awarded 214 degrees, including three honorary degrees, at its 46th Commencement exercises on Sunday, June 2, under a tent on the Campus Green. Association of American Medical Colleges President Darrel G. Kirch delivered the keynote address to graduates of the School of Medicine, the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and the Graduate School of Nursing. Susan Coghlin Mailman, owner of Worcester's Coghlin Electrical Contractors, Inc., and Richard P.
Completing a doctoral nursing degree is a great challenge and a great achievement. On Wednesday, May 29, soon-to-be Graduate School of Nursing Class of 2019 degree recipients celebrated their achievements with a reception in their honor. The theme running throughout the proceedings was, "We are very proud of you, and you should be very proud of yourselves. Congratulations!"
University of Massachusetts alumnus Paul Manning '77 and his wife Diane Manning, have committed $1 million through their family foundation to establish the Manning Innovation Program. The program provides three years of support in advancing a robust and sustainable pipeline of applied and translational research projects from UMass Amherst.
UMass Dartmouth junior All-American Jordan Entwistle (Northboro, Mass./Algonquin Regional) capped an incredible individual season by capturing the 2019 individual national championship in the men's javelin Thursday evening at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championships hosted by the SPIRE Institute and the University of Mount Union.
UMass Boston's baseball team is headed back to the Division III College World Series. After beating the New England College Pilgrims 5-4 on Friday, the Beacons bounced back from a Game Two loss on Saturday to beat the Pilgrims 6-2 in the final game in the best-of-three series.
"Each game could have gone either way," Head Coach Brendan Eygabroat said after the final out. "We got some really clutch hits. Our seniors led us. ...We were able to hand the ball off to Bob and that's usually game over."
A team of researchers from UMass Lowell, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and China Agricultural University in Beijing has developed a new, sustainable way of converting wet biological waste into diesel-compatible fuel, using heat and water.
The process, called hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL), converts wet, solid biowaste – such as animal manure from farms, food scraps from restaurants and food-processing plants, and algae from wastewater treatment facilities – into liquid fuel that can be blended with regular diesel.
Thirteen years ago, Elisa Ogawa couldn't speak, read, or write English. But she arrived in Dorchester with a passion.
Ogawa, then 15, had traveled from Japan to live with her aunt, with the dream of playing basketball in the U.S.
The University of Massachusetts Boston and its extended community mourn the loss of former Chancellor Sherry H. Penney, who passed away in Florida last week. Dr. Penney was known for her exceptional leadership, both as chancellor and as founder of the highly successful Center for Collaborative Leadership.