AMHERST, Mass. – Answering an urgent call for assistance from regional health care systems, a volunteer team of scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is preparing, testing and…
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A doctoral candidate in UMass Boston’s Clinical Psychology PhD Program who is currently engaged in developing outreach material related to stress associated with the COVID-19 crisis has received…
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The American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) recently announced that Alice Cheung, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, will receive the 2020 Lawrence Bogorad Award for Excellence in…
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AMHERST, Mass. – Sarah Perry, a chemical engineer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, is studying a new approach to protein stabilization based on how cells work at body temperature. The…
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In a time of dire need, as medical professionals are working to care for patients during the COVID-19 pandemic and critical supplies of protective gear are running low, students in the Graduate…
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With the university’s mid-March shift to virtual learning in response to the coronavirus pandemic, a new, remote reality began for students, faculty and staff. One group of students might have felt…
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As Krishna Kumar finishes his first academic year as the second Gluckstern Professorship in Physics, he reflects that he is glad to be back “to a vibrant physics department” that lured him back to…
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The University of Massachusetts Boston recently selected Quito Swan to be the new director of the William Monroe Trotter Institute for the Study of Black Culture . Swan, who joined UMass Boston…, You started with a BA in computer science. What made you want to switch to African diaspora history?, I love technology, but always had a passion for history. So I went to Howard University, which has an illustrious career and tradition of producing cutting-edge research on the African diaspora. I…, What was your research focus?, I started by looking at the African diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean. My first dissertation was on social and cultural movements in Bermuda. Later, I learned of a Bermudian environmental…, What else are you excited to do as director of the Trotter Institute?, I'm trying to make a space where we can build our archival communities in the current time. A black Bostonian project that involves all history: helping organizations archive their papers, digitizing…, What would be the kind of message that you would want to send to students who have never heard of this space before?, That they’re part of a broader community. That they can find support, and that there's another on-campus institution that can bring Africana alive beyond just content. I'm still trying to think of…
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A meteorite striking the university’s data center. That’s the kind of disaster for which the link this for IT landing page Information Technology office had a contingency plan. But a global…, ‘Herculean Effort’, By the time Provost Hartman-Joseph Joseph Hartman announced on March 11 that classes would be moving online, preparations were already well underway in the IT department, which manages everything…, Virtual Environment, Another critical component of online learning is vLabs, technology the university introduced in 2013 that allows students to run university-owned software via a virtual desktop on any internet-…
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AMHERST, Mass. – In a new investigation into how applying common privacy algorithms can cause inequities for minority populations and other groups, a team led by Gerome Miklau at the University of…
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