AMHERST, Mass. – A University of Massachusetts Amherst graduate student produced approximately 400 personal protection face shields for local health care workers battling the COVID-19 pandemic. The…
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AMHERST, Mass. – To address the COVID-19 pandemic, particle physicist Andrea Pocar at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an international team of “Dark Matter” scientists are now designing…
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There’s no telling how the coronavirus pandemic will affect national, state and local elections this November. But at the student government level at UMass Lowell, it’s business as usual. Voting in…
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The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) has selected Benjamin Kugler, a PhD candidate in UMass Boston’s Exercise and Health Sciences Program , as one of the two recipients of this year’s…
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Nancy A. Anoruo, MD, MPH, a third-year resident in the Department of Medicine, has been working over the last three weeks as a medical contributor and journalist for the ABC News Medical Unit in New…
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Rationing health care resources during a pandemic is a complex undertaking, says Assoc. Prof. Hay-Carol Carol Hay of Philosophy landing page Philosophy . What’s clear, though, is that COVID-19 is…, Q: Different states and hospitals have come up with different guidelines for deciding who gets life-saving treatment in case of shortages. Nearly all of the plans prioritize children and pregnant…, A:, I think we need to admit that these are just really hard questions, and they might even be questions where there isn’t one answer. One thing that’s important is that hospitals already have ethics…, Q: Aren’t those front-line doctors the ones with the most information about who has the best chance to survive with a good quality of life?, A:, Research shows that we tend to overestimate our ability to predict other people’s quality of life. Able-bodied people are especially bad at estimating the quality of life of people with disabilities…, Q: On the one hand, this pandemic seems like a great equalizer – everyone is vulnerable. On the other, it does seem to come down to resources. Homeless people, low-income people and people of color…, A:, You can’t shelter in place if you don’t have a place. Home isn’t a safe place to shelter for women and children at risk of domestic violence and for many LGBTQ people. Seventy percent of people who…, Q: As a moral and political philosopher, do you think this represents an opportunity to address some of these inequalities?, A:, It would be great to chip away at some of these inequalities. Am I optimistic that’s going to happen? No. But it’s possible. I do think many Americans are realizing, ‘Oh, wow! This is why universal…, Q: What are our individual ethical responsibilities during a pandemic?, A:, Many of our most pressing obligations right now are obligations of care: take care of yourself; take care of your family; take care of your community by not putting yourself or others unnecessarily…, Q: What kind of philosophical advice can you offer students right now?, A:, What I would say to them, if it’s any comfort, is that if they’re freaked out or they’re scared, they’re tracking. It’s such a strange time: We’re all together in this forced aloneness. It’s really…
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In a Thursday email to the campus community, Chancellor Kumble R. Subbaswamy thanked on-site campus staff for their continued service and faculty for their swift transition to remote learning. He…
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An impassioned pitch for a business making sustainable, smart textiles and fabric pots for agricultural and horticultural use captured $7,000 and the top Rist Campus-Wide link this for…, THE 2020 $50K IDEA CHALLENGE WINNERS: , The Rist Campus-Wide DifferenceMaker (sponsored by Brian Rist ’77), $7,000: MyGrow Fabrix Significant Social Impact, $4,000: YPG Sutherland Innovative Technology Solution (sponsored by Andrew…
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The Healey Library 's University Archives and Special Collections (UASC) staff launched a new project: They’re documenting the UMass Boston community’s response to the COVID-19 crisis. By…, What’s the story of how this project came to be? , As soon as we started working remotely, the UASC staff started talking about the pressing need to provide a collection portal for our university community during COVID-19. Other university archives…, Who is involved in the project and what roles are people taking on?, Interim University Archivist and Curator of Special Collections Andrew Elder and I put together the main elements of the project: the project description and the collection forms in GoogleForms. I…, Who should submit materials and what should they submit?, We are interested in collecting materials from all members of our campus community: students, faculty, staff, alumni, administrators, and anyone else connected to the university with a story to tell…, Where are you collecting submissions and how long will you continue to collect?, I wrote a blog post called " Documenting the UMass Boston Community’s Response to COVID-19 " that has a link to the collection forms. We’ll be accepting submissions indefinitely. As long as people…, What will you do with the materials you collect? , The materials will become part of the Healey Library’s permanent digital collections, and if contributors give us permission, they will be shared through our digital collections repository here . We…, What impact do you hope this project has on the UMass Boston community?, We are hoping for two outcomes with this project: that the project can serve as an outlet for people during social distancing and while we’re experiencing a time of great stress and uncertainty, and…
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AMHERST, Mass. –The Influenza Forecasting Center of Excellence team at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is developing a COVID-19 forecast hub by unifying multiple models in an effort to…
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