The American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) recently honored Peter Chien, professor in biochemistry and molecular biology by naming him to the 2020 class of Fellows of the Academy based on his record…
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A new study by integrated primary care researcher and physician Paula Gardiner, MD, finds that an interactive website can bring proven, effective nondrug treatments like mindfulness, meditation and…
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded a two-year, $1.4 million grant to Department of Mechanical Engineering Mechanical Engineering Asst. Prof. Asst. Prof. Murat Inalpolat Murat…, Clean, Renewable Energy, Assisting Inalpolat on the project are Ph.D. students Jaclyn Solimine ’17 and Caleb Traylor. “Our research will help determine in real time if and when blade damage occurs,” says Solimine, a former …
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A donation of $8,500 from the City of Boston’s GRAD Last Mile Fund has put UMass Boston’s Chromebook drive over the top of its goal of securing 200 laptops to loan students. The drive has now funded…
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More than 1,900 admitted students and their guests were able to participate in Welcome Day activities last weekend because of the virtual format necessitated by COVID-19. Compare that to April 2019…
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As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, healthcare workers have struggled to persist against the virus through a shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) such as masks, gowns, gloves, and eye gear…
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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Tasso and Music Symposium will now take place via Zoom video conference during the April 17-19 weekend, from 9:30am-12:30pm each day. Over a dozen music historians…
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Fujifilm Corporation announced today the initiation of a Phase II clinical trial in the United States to evaluate the safety and efficacy of its antiviral drug Avigan (favipiravir) for patients with…
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Due to ongoing concerns about the impact of the coronavirus, the 124th Boston Marathon will not happen as planned in April, but has been rescheduled for September. This last time Marathon Monday was…
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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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