The Mapping Aspects of Psychotherapy in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (MAPDBT) research study is recruiting volunteers to participate in group therapy. The goal of the study is to compare how different parts of evidence-based group therapy may improve emotional functioning among people who struggle to manage their emotions and have self-destructive behaviors. Participants will receive six weeks of free group therapy.

A Boston Globe story published July 2 features FutureSHORELINE, the work of Carolina Aragón, landscape architecture. FutureSHORELINE is a temporary sculpture, made of lobster traps, in Boston’s Fort Point Channel to help visualize projected flooding in this area from sea level rise. 

Aragón says, “I want the public to be aware that there will be flooding but also to know that there’s something being done about it.” 

AMHERST, Mass. – Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently discovered that the ability of agricultural grasses to withstand drought is directly related to the health of the microbial community living on their stems, leaves and seeds.

AMHERST, Mass. – Humans have known for over two thousand years that shipworms, a worm-like mollusk, are responsible for damage to wooden boats, docks, dikes and piers.

Amanda Baptiste ’21 grew up in Taunton, Massachusetts, a city rich in her Portuguese heritage. When she arrived at UMass Lowell four years ago to pursue a degree in exercise physiology, she quickly identified with the cultural diversity of the city — and her new school.

As a high school student in the 1980s, Assoc.

Whenever the chair of the Science Department at Lowell High School has an ope

Roger J. Davis, PhD, FRS, and the Cryo-EM Core facility at UMass Medical School have received $2.8 million from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) for the purchase of an advanced Glacios cryo-electron microscope from Thermo Fisher Scientific. The MLSC is an economic development investment agency dedicated to supporting the growth and development of the life sciences in Massachusetts.

Before the foundation is poured or the first piece of structural steel is set for the new education and research building on the UMass Medical School Worcester campus, work has begun on a geothermal heating and cooling system that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the building by 55 percent compared to serving its HVAC needs exclusively with the campus power plant.

The new executive vice chancellor for MassBiologics, Mireli Fino, MBA, said she was drawn to the organization because of its unique mission to both educate the future biotech workforce and have an impact on global health.

A division of UMass Medical School, MassBiologics is the nation’s only nonprofit FDA-licensed manufacturer of vaccines and biologics.