Weekly visits to University Crossing for a quick nasal swab. Teletherapy counseling appointments on Skype. Socially distanced spin classes outside the Campus Recreation Center. Meditation practice on…, COVID-19 Testing, , For students living on campus, there was an added step to move-in this year: a visit to University Crossing’s Moloney Hall for their first COVID-19 test of the semester. The early results were…, Wellness, Wherever You Are, , According to a national survey conducted last spring by the nonprofit organization Active Minds homepage Active Minds , COVID-19 has negatively affected the mental health of 80 percent of college…, Around Campus, , Anyone who comes to campus should have a face covering, which must be worn indoors at all times and also outdoors if 6 feet of personal distance can’t be maintained. While UML’s housekeeping team…
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Any kid growing up in New England has the dream of playing baseball for their beloved Olde Towne Team. For former UMass Dartmouth standout Nate Tellier '20 , that dream is one step closer to reality…
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Animation Career Review has ranked the Illustration Program at the College of Visual & Performing Arts (CVPA) #2 among more than 140 colleges with illustration programs from across the US. The…
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AMHERST, Mass. – A new program at UMass Amherst has been awarded two grants totaling $6.3 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to ensure that the transformation of the electric grid is…
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AMHERST, Mass. – Venus flytraps do it, trap-jaw ants do it, and now materials scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst can do it, too – they discovered a way of efficiently converting…
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Members of the campus’s Wind Energy Center (WEC) last week helped to launch the coalition New England for Offshore Wind, (NE4OSW), of which WEC is a member institution. NE4OSWis a coalition of…
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UMass Medical School is enrolling healthy volunteers to take part in a Phase II/III clinical trial testing whether a messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine candidate can prevent infection with the virus that…
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A UMass Medical School infectious disease specialist is urging people to get vaccinated soon against influenza, as the threat approaches of what has been called a “twindemic,” the annual spike in…
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A UMass Medical School professor is co-directing a first-of-its-kind national program to enhance diversity in the academic biomedical workforce, funded by a $1.3 million, five-year grant from the…
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Students, faculty and researchers interested in the rich cultural and historical tapestry of Portuguese-Americans in the Merrimack Valley and beyond will soon have access to a digital archive…, , “We want to model the visual quality on the university’s Southeast Asian archive, which is a state-of-the-art example of digital history,” says Fitzsimons ’13, a historian who previously worked for…
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