The American Cancer Society recently reported a drop in the overall cancer death rate in the U.S., with an overall 29% decline in cancer deaths from 1991 to 2017. This resulted in 2.9 million fewer…
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UMass Dartmouth and the SouthCoast Development Partnership are happy to announce that BankFive has pledged $75,000 over a three-year period to support regional economic development through…, BankFive President and CEO William Eccles, Jr, . “UMass Dartmouth is grateful for BankFive’s vision and commitment to growing our local economy through innovative partnerships in the blue economy,” said , UMass Dartmouth Chancellor Robert E. Johnson, . “By convening key marine science and technology stakeholders in industry, academia, and government on the SouthCoast and beyond, we will enable our region to become more globally competitive”. By…, Dave Slutz, , Managing Director of Potentia Holdings, LLC and co-chair of the SouthCoast Development Partnership.
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Boston Mayor Marty Walsh has appointed Professor of Latin American and Iberian Studies Reyes Coll-Tellechea and six others to the city’s reactivated Human Rights Commission, which has a special…
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The School of Public Health and Health Sciences (SPHHS) has announced the appointment of Christopher Greenfield as its new associate dean of administration and finance. Greenfield brings 16 years of…
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AMHERST, Mass. – Breastfeeding women with a pathogenic BRCA1 or BRCA2 genetic mutation face a significant risk, even at a young age, of breast and ovarian cancer. Yet no fully effective breast cancer…, Twitter: @UMassBRCAstudy
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More than half of faculty members at U.S. land-grant universities believe engaging with the public about science is a high priority. But at the same time, fewer than a quarter think their peers…
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AMHERST, Mass. – The Massachusetts Gaming Commission has awarded a renewable contract to a University of Massachusetts Amherst team to continue groundbreaking research into the socioeconomic…
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Appointed to the Board by Governor Mitt Romney in 2003, John was an exemplary higher education leader who drew on his experiences growing up in Detroit and being the first in his family to attend…
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – Jamina Scippio-McFadden, a senior program manager at the UMass Center at Springfield and a deeply engaged community leader, has been named director of the center by the…
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BOSTON—Declaring him a candidate who can be “a transformational and inspirational leader for Boston’s public university of transformation,” a 21-member search committee today unanimously named UCLA…
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