After more than a year of virtual learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic, UMass Boston’s Class of 2021 graduates were eager to celebrate their academic achievements in person.
Family and friends gathered to celebrate the more than 3,800 Class of 2021 graduates at an in-person ceremony at the TD Garden Thursday morning and online where families could tune in and celebrate virtually.
More than 7,500 graduates from UMass Boston’s Class of 2020 and Class of 2021 were honored Thursday as the university held in-person commencement ceremonies at the TD Garden for the first time since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
At long last, the class of 2020 had their moment.
Seventeen months after they were sent to learn remotely, and fifteen months after COVID-19 postponed their original commencement date, students from the UMass Boston class of 2020 gathered at the TD Garden on Thursday afternoon to celebrate the university’s 52nd commencement exercises.
University of Massachusetts Amherst biostatistician Nicholas Reich, who rose to national prominence for his COVID-19 pandemic forecasting leadership, has received a five-year, $2.16 million grant renewal from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue advancing methods for real-time forecasting during infectious disease outbreaks.
The University of Massachusetts Amherst maintained its status as one of the nation’s best public universities in the 2022 rankings published by U.S. News & World Report. UMass ranks No. 26 among the 209 national public universities evaluated in the Best Colleges Guide, the same position as last year.
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The journey toward achieving a doctorate degree in any discipline is already paved with obstacles and deterrents. And that’s without factoring in a global pandemic.
“It’s an overwhelming sense of accomplishment in the face of adversity,” said Bridget Bearden G’18, PhD’21, who faced her own adversities while pursuing her doctoral degree in Public Policy. In addition to having three children, all of whom had to transition into remote learning, Bearden also lost her job last year. “It’s a sense of relief and a light at the end of the tunnel.”
A clinical trial of 125 young adults shows that those who limited screen time for 48 hours immediately after suffering a concussion had a significantly shorter duration of symptoms than those who were permitted screen time. These findings, published in JAMA Pediatrics, offer the first clinical evidence that restricting time spent at a computer, television or phone screen in the acute period following a concussion can reduce the duration of symptoms.
The Diversity and Inclusion Office, with support from UMass Medical School student leaders, hosted the first Learners of Color Orientation on Friday, Aug. 27, and Saturday, Aug. 28. Students from the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Graduate School of Nursing and School of Medicine attended the event, which included a mixer Friday night at Mezcal Cantina in Worcester for students to get to know one another and a series of workshops on Saturday.