Students liken the Economics page Economics Department to a family: It’s close-knit, everyone knows each other, and the professors are accessible and welcoming. “The small department and the…
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Xarielle Gittens had one complaint after participating in the link this for landing page Manning School of Business ’ Global Entrepreneurship Exchange ( link this for global entrepreneurship landing…
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Amid nationwide shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) for health care workers on the front lines of treating the novel coronavirus, the state quickly assembled a task force to help…
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Katie Sanchez ’20 breathed a sigh of relief when she found out in early March that she’d been accepted into Boston Scientific’s financial leadership development program. The two-year rotation was…, Companies are Hiring, But at a Slower Pace, Despite the millions of people filing for unemployment, companies are still hiring. That’s the good news. The not-so-good news: Finding and starting a job may take a little longer with the hiring…, Joining the Ranks of Remote Workers, A career fair is how Manning School of Business graduate Fred Tavarez ’20 first connected with BAE Systems, the defense, security and aerospace company. After a round of interviews, he got a job…, Pre-pandemic Job Searches Pay Off, Michael Venetti Michael Venetti ’20, who earned a master’s degree in link this for Peace-and-conflict-Studies landing page peace and conflict studies in May, started his job search last fall when…
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You want your kids back in school this fall because getting them to learn online last spring while you tried to act professional in work Zoom meetings was a lost cause. You worry that the new COVID-…, Q. You say that during times of crisis, we tend to fall back on inequitable patterns. Why is that the case, and what does that mean for working women?, A., As much as there has been progress around professional women and dual-working families over the past two to three decades, there were still patterns of inequity where more of the “second shift” of…, Q. Do you see those support systems for working families returning?, A., There’s such uncertainty around if, how and when any reliable supports for working parents are coming back, and that’s been nagging me. You could argue that the situation is even more stark right…, Q. What are those unintended consequences?, A., I’m concerned that in the absence of these social systems that support working families, people are going to do a mishmash of their own thing: putting their kids in unregulated child care settings…, Q. Many companies have been able to let employees work from home during the pandemic. Could this signal a larger change in how companies treat working parents?, A., Early on, this was actually a good thing for those of us who were calling for companies to be more understanding of who employees are both inside and outside of the workplace. The severity of what…, Q. When the pandemic finally ends, what will be the lasting effects in the workplace?, A., I’m not one of those people who think, “Oh, the great work from home experiment — we’ll never go back to the office again.” I don’t think that would be a good thing. But one silver lining to this…
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What the doctor is writing on your medical chart is no longer a mystery. Thanks to health information technology you’re able to go online and see the doctor’s notes about your visit. Professor of…
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UMass Boston senior Joseph Farah has been named one of seven finalists for the American Physical Society's LeRoy Apker Award , regarded as the highest honor awarded to undergraduate physics students…
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AMHERST, Mass. – Nadia Fernandez of Elkhart, Indiana, a Ph.D. student in Environmental Conservation, with her advisor molecular ecologist Lisa Komoroske, are one of 45 advisor-student teams to…
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AMHERST, Mass. – To enhance their coordinated response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the Town of Amherst have appointed a high-level Working Group to address…
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BOSTON -- July 1, 2015:New UMass President Marty Meehan officially launched his presidency today by pledging to champion the causes of quality, affordability and diversity and by establishing the…
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