AMHERST, Mass. – In the first study to use systematically collected data from multifamily housing inspections to track bed bug infestation, investigators including Christopher Sutherland at the…
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Interim Chancellor Katherine Newman and UMass Boston Police Chief Donald Baynard sent messages to the campus community on Thursday about the presence of state police on campus. . . . To all faculty,…
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Dear Campus community: Police harassment and brutality became known to me keenly and personally for the first time as a 13-year old kid growing up in Detroit in the 1970s. As young teenagers, my…
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I am saddened to learn of the passing of Joseph Corcoran, a leader, a builder -- and a kind and generous man. As the founder of the pioneering Corcoran Jennison real estate development company, Mr.…
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A team of UMass Medical School researchers has identified a promising new therapeutic target in hepatoblastoma, a rare, primarily pediatric liver cancer for which successful treatment strategies have…
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Lyme disease has become an insidious epidemic in the United States. Caused by bacteria transmitted by an infected tick bite, symptoms can include arthritis and cardiac and neurological problems if…, A vaccine’s cautionary tale, In 1998, the FDA approved a Lyme vaccine composed of protein antigens from the surface of the Lyme bacteria, Borrelia burgdorferi . A vaccine works by introducing proteins from the disease-causing…, A different approach, Unlike a vaccine, Lyme PrEP uses a single human antibody, or blood protein, to kill the bacteria in the tick’s gut while it takes its blood drink, before the bacteria can get into the human host.…
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The Child Trauma Training Center at UMass Medical School has received supplemental funding to help ensure the center’s LINK-KID referral service has the capacity to handle an expected surge in calls…, Related story on UMassMedNow:, UMass Medical School child trauma expert co-authors COVID-19 resource for supporting children’s well-being
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Teresa Ramsby, associate professor of classics, recently received the annual award for Excellence in College Teaching from the Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS). Ramsby is…
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The Mission Continues , a nonprofit organization that trains and redeploys veterans in their communities, has awarded UMass Boston student veteran Tony Martin ’19 a $1,500 grant through its Service…
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Kelsey Edmond, a PhD student in UMass Boston’s McCormack Graduate School , has been selected to be one of this year’s Rappaport Public Policy Fellows. Funded and administered by Harvard's Rappaport…
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