Each year, the Office of Outreach Programs at UMass Medical School hosts high achieving students from backgrounds underrepresented in health care and biomedical sciences for a rigorous academic immersion which exposes them to the real world of medical careers and how to prepare for them. This summer, the High School Health Careers Program was conducted online for the second time.
Dear Colleagues,
I am truly excited to present the UMass Dartmouth Annual Research Report 2020, a celebration of scholarship that highlights the innovative research, scholarly and creative activities that were conducted by UMass Dartmouth students, faculty, and staff.
Honors nursing major Nora
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.