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The University of Massachusetts School of Law – Dartmouth is partnering with the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation to create opportunities for Truman Scholars to earn their law degree. The UMass Law Truman Foundation Public Service Scholarship program will offer Truman Scholars admitted to UMass Law a full scholarship, including tuition and fees, for the duration of their enrollment. This is the first dedicated scholarship partnership with a law school in the history of the Truman Foundation.
BOSTON – The James J. Karam Scholarship Fund has awarded nine current and incoming University of Massachusetts students $45,000 in scholarships. The scholarships are awarded annually to SouthCoast students who distinguish themselves through their community engagement activities and strong academic performance.
NEWTON, Mass. – As the Greater Boston business community prepares for a post-COVID-19 environment, the Mount Ida Campus of UMass Amherst is opening co-working space for startup or small companies interested in co-locating with the state’s flagship public research university.
The Innovation and Collaboration Space on UMass Amherst’s Newton, Mass. campus includes co-working office and lab space, with an additional makerspace planned in the near future.
Govind Srimathveeravalli, an assistant professor in the mechanical and industrial engineering (MIE) department and an adjunct professor in the biomedical engineering (BME) department at UMass Amherst, has received a $1,366,330 grant over four years from the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. He will pursue a revolutionary technique for tissue-engineering grafts for bladder reconstruction.
Food science Ph.D. candidate Cassandra Suther has received a prestigious predoctoral fellowship of $180,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) to study the effect of norovirus on the development and severity of food allergies.
AMHERST, Mass. – Not long after earning her Ph.D. in sociology and losing her brief first job with a software startup that shut down overnight, Rachel Volberg took a chance – on gambling studies, a nearly nonexistent field.
A compass and a calculator can help teach the basics of mathematics, but Iman Chahine believes arts, games, tools and social practices used in everyday culture can make the lessons richer.
She says an unspoken language found in murals, beads and sewing patterns can help demystify mathematics for schoolchildren.
And now she has a second Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to help prove it.
An interactive online science program for middle school students developed and presented by UMass Medical School researchers will deepen its partnership with Worcester Public Schools this fall, according to organizers.
The fast-spreading Delta variant is believed to be contributing to the recent uptick in COVID-19 cases in certain areas, particularly among those who have not been vaccinated, a UMass Medical School infectious disease expert and member of Gov. Baker’s COVID-19 Advisory Group said.