Paola Dionisio isn’t quite sure what her title at work is.
She’s between either “Santa” or “elf.”
“People write letters to Santa, and I read them, so does that mean that I’m Santa or an elf?” she asks, chuckling.
AMHERST, Mass. – A pair of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently published the results of a study that is the first to take a process-based modeling approach to understand how much CO2 rivers and streams contribute to the atmosphere.
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AMHERST, Mass. – Two visionary financial gifts have provided a strong foundation for University of Massachusetts Amherst nurses and engineers to collaborate and lead transformational change in patient care, nursing practice and medical product development.
AMHERST, Mass. – A University of Massachusetts Amherst researcher is one of the lead investigators who have received a five-year, $2.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to improve medication adherence among vulnerable populations with hypertension, or high blood pressure.
AMHERST, Mass. – A multi-institutional team led by University of Massachusetts professor Paul Siqueira, electrical and computer engineering, has been awarded a three-year, $4.5 million NASA contract to develop an airborne microwave sensing instrument capable of characterizing the depth and density of North American snowpack with unprecedented accuracy.
AMHERST, Mass. – White publishers and editors used their newspapers to build, nurture, and protect white supremacy across the South in the decades after the Civil War. At the same time, a vibrant Black press fought to disrupt these efforts and force the United States to live up to its democratic ideals.
Elon Musk. Mark Zuckerberg. Peter Thiel. Steve Jobs. Jack Dorsey. Bill Gates. Jeff Bezos. The tech industry has long suffered from a well-known lack of diversity, but Nilanjana Dasgupta, professor of psychological and brain sciences and director of the Institute of Diversity Sciences (IDS) at UMass Amherst, is part of a group that’s working to change that.
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