The Office of Business Development & Innovation at UMass Medical School has announced the 2021 BRIDGE Fund grants, which support innovative scientific advances at the Medical School.
Sabahat Rahman, SOM ’23, didn’t know the word for inequity when she was growing up, splitting time with her mom in California and her dad in Bangladesh, but she knew what it looked like.
“It just did not sit well with me that depending on what situation they were born into, people had very different paths for their lives,” Rahman said.
Worcester Commons, the newest dining hall on campus, has received Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).
The University of Massachusetts Office of the President and UMass Amherst Institute of Diversity Sciences, in partnership with the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center and the Massachusetts Business Roundtable, are hosting a series of virtual summits on June 29-30 where panelists will show which strategies created the greatest improvement in minority and women students’ graduation rates and industry retention and promotion in science, technology, en
Distinguished Professor of food science David Julian McClements served on the National Academy of Sciences Planning Committee for a workshop on building a more sustainable, resilient, equitable and nourishing food system.
The principal investigator of an ongoing clinical trial of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 mRNA vaccine said UMass Medical School intends to start enrolling by the end of June approximately 100 participants from its initial Pfizer trial in a study of a vaccine booster. The booster would be given roughly six months after participants received their second shot of the original vaccine.
Nikolaus Grigorieff, PhD, and Bronwyn Lucas, PhD, have received a $1.3 million grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) to develop new computational and data collection tools for locating specific molecules with near-atomic accuracy within cells using cryo-EM imaging technology. The 30-month grant is part of CZI’s Frontiers of Imaging initiative, which supports the development of disruptive imaging technologies that connect biological scales across organs, cells and proteins.
This year, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the UMass system will officially celebrate Juneteenth for the first time. Join members of the UMass Dartmouth and SouthCoast community to learn more about this holiday that celebrates the emancipation of those enslaved in the U.S. during a webinar on Thursday, June 17 at 11 a.m.
UMass Dartmouth held four Commencement ceremonies to honor the accomplishments of the Classes of 2020 and 2021 during Commencement Weekend. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic restricting an in-person ceremony for graduates in the spring of 2020, both classes were celebrated in ceremonies on June 11 and 12, 2021. All events were held in-person on the Cressy Football Field on the Main Campus in Dartmouth.