AMHERST, Mass. – Imagine the impact on first-year college student-athletes in highly competitive programs if you could teach them resilience – if they learned skills to cope with high expectations,…, a, ctive coping, such as exercise or meditation; , b, uilding strength by focusing on and advancing one’s aptitudes rather than weaknesses; , c, ognitive awareness, which involves being aware of automatic thinking; and garnering , s, ocial support. To gain the neuroplastic benefits of repetitive practice, each class follows the same format. It begins with each individual describing a “positive practice exercise” they did as…
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An editorial in the journal Medical Care by UMass Medical School public health experts calls for legislators and policymakers to take bold action on gun control, similar to the recent ban in…
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Sally C. Kent, PhD, associate professor of medicine in the Diabetes Center of Excellence, has been named the George F. and Sybil H. Fuller Foundation Term Chair in Diabetes. Dr. Kent studies…
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The 11th annual Winter Ball held on Friday, Dec. 6, raised more than $1.3 million to help support the clinical care, education and biomedical research missions of UMass Medical School and UMass…
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UMass Lowell has once again been recognized for its comprehensive sustainability efforts across campus, this time with a 2019 Leading by Example award from the commonwealth of Massachusetts. …
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UMass Boston’s Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI) has named Cindy Thomas , MS, CRC its new director. Thomas has worked for ICI for more than 30 years, most recently serving as interim…
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Professors Emery Berger, Prashant Shenoy and Ramesh Sitaraman of the College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) have been named Fellow by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the…
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A team led by director of the Gloucester Marine Station Adrian Jordaan and including ecologists Michelle Staudinger and Allison Roy of the U.S. Geological Survey recently received support for their…
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced that Ph.D. student Zachary Marc Fink and polymer scientist Thomas Russell’s lab has been selected to receive its Office of Science Graduate…
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The Graduate School of Nursing at UMass Medical School is in the top ranks of the best nursing schools nationally, regionally and locally, according to Nursing Schools Almanac . The GSN is ranked…
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