AMHERST, Mass. – Geochemist Isaac Larsen at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has been granted a Fulbright U.S. Scholar award and will spend the coming spring semester at the University of…
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NEWTON, Mass., –, CoachUp, the nation’s leading private coaching provider, has relocated its headquarters to the innovation and collaboration space on the Mount Ida Campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.…, About CoachUp, CoachUp is a service that connects athletes with private coaches in 30-plus sports. As the nation's leading private coaching provider with over 15,000 coaches in every sport, all across America, it…, About the Mount Ida Campus of UMass Amherst, The Mount Ida Campus of UMass Amherst serves as a center for student experiential learning, industry engagement, academic and research collaboration, and fundraising in Greater Boston. Acquired from…
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Mathematics professor Andrea R. Nahmod has been named a principal investigator for a Simons Foundation Collaboration in Mathematical and Physical Sciences that will involve leading mathematics and…
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Five Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning (LARP) students were recently awarded the Jury Prize in the 2020 Edmund N. Bacon Urban Design Awards Student Competition. The interdisciplinary team…, Attachment, “The Quilt: Make No Little Plans”
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Four teams of UMass Medical School students have been awarded Martin Luther King Jr. Semester of Service Awards to implement community service programs. They will use the $500 awards to help improve…, Cervical Cancer Screening: Understanding Barriers to Access and Implementing Free Screening at Organized Medical Programs, Students: Katherine Cooper, SOM ’22; Rachel Anderson, SOM ’22; and Grace Masters, MD/PhD candidate Project description: A multistep approach that will evaluate the need for and barriers to cervical…, Worcester Stops the Bleed, Students: Michael Wang, SOM ’23; Lucinda Chiu, SOM ’21; and Elya Reznichenko, SOM ’22 Project description: Train youth workers to save lives by raising awareness of basic actions to stop life…, Bringing Electronic Medical Records to the Worcester Free Clinic Coalition, Student : John Romano, SOM ’22 Project description: Pilot the implementation of electronic medical records that will improve continuity and quality of care by allowing outside providers to log in…, Tutoring and Mentoring Initiative, Students: Cindy Le, SOM ’23 and Thomas Kania, SOM ’23 Project description: Build a program to give students tutoring in the fundamental subjects they need, including math and science, as well as…
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The Jake Kennedy ALS Fund, launched last month by Jake and Sparky Kennedy, supports research at UMass Medical School to find a cure for ALS. A Jan. 20 Boston Globe column by Kevin Cullen details…
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UMass Medical School is participating in World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day on Thursday, Jan. 30, the first day dedicated to the eradication of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). NTDs are a…
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Implicit biases are unconscious attitudes that individuals hold about other people based on racial, social and other stereotypes. Implicit bias is important in health care because it can affect how a…
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Dear UMassD Community, Welcome back to another exciting semester at UMass Dartmouth. I hope you were able to recharge during the winter break and spend time with family and friends. Before we get too…
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AMHERST, Mass. – Results of a new epidemiological analysis of more than 108,000 women observed a lower risk of early menopause among women who had at least one pregnancy lasting at least six months…
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