BOSTON - The University of Massachusetts today announced the launch of a new system-wide initiative to make courses on each of its campuses available to students on all UMass campuses. The Inter-…, UMass President Marty Meehan, said. “The inter-campus course exchange is an excellent example of a silver lining that will benefit our students long after COVID-19 is a distant memory.” Under the plan developed by, UMass, System Chancellor for Academic Programs Katherine Newman, in collaboration with the Provosts of each campus, undergraduate and graduate students interested in a class that is unavailable on their home campus will have an expanded pathway to equivalent…, UMass Amherst – Supporting Faculty and Faculty Supporting Students, Multiple campus units mobilized to establish University Quality Standards: FlexForward to Fully Online Course Design - a resource hub for faculty transitioning to remote instruction. The initiative…, UMass Boston – RESPOND Peer Coaching Initiative, With funding from the Trefler and Lumina Foundations, UMass Boston created and launched the RESPOND Peer Coaching Initiative during the first weeks of remote instruction to proactively engage with…, UMass Dartmouth – Closing the Digital Divide, When it became evident early in the spring semester that hundreds of UMass Dartmouth students lacked adequate computers and reliable broadband internet access to succeed at remote learning, the…, UMass Lowell – High Quality Remote Laboratory and Studio Course, Based on experience last spring, UMass Lowell faculty are employing a number of innovative methods to deliver laboratory and studio classes remotely this fall. Examples include: Electrical and…, UMass Medical School – Pandemic Curriculum, In late March and early April, as students were temporarily removed from their clinical placements, UMMS faculty established a two-week remote course that covered a wide range of topics, from the…
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Elated faces of the Graduate Entry Pathway Class of 2023 were seen on Zoom and Facebook Live as they joined with faculty, family and friends for the virtual 2020 Graduate Entry Pathway Pinning…, Graduate Entry Pathway Class of 2023, Kyle Bartels Heidi Anna Boland Elizabeth Brown Amy Chau Anisha Anil Chauhan Adam Corl Samantha Lynn Creamer Maria Danna Julie Vivika Darcy Jake Davidson Brad Demers Allison Dyberg Sarah Fixon-Owoo…
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Jasmine Varona has hit the ground running at UMass Lowell. But that’s really no surprise, given that the first-year link this for landing page Manning School of Business student from Haverhill,…
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Harvard University’s James Bryant Conant University Professor Danielle Allen delivered the keynote address at UMass Boston’s virtual 2020 Fall Convocation, outlining “red flags” signaling that…
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Officially launching an “anything but ordinary” academic year with a virtual convocation address, UMass Boston Chancellor Marcelo Suárez-Orozco called on the higher education community to “sharpen…
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The Massachusetts Women of Color Coalition (MAWOCC) and the UMass Boston Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy will jointly host a virtual forum entitled, “Standing in our Power: Women of…, About MAWOCC, The Massachusetts Women of Color Coalition is a statewide organization dedicated to eradicating the racial inequities among women of color created by structural, institutional, interpersonal, and…, About the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy at UMass Boston, The Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy in the McCormack Graduate School seeks to empower and increase diverse women’s leadership to achieve more just, responsive, and intersectional…
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Virologist Mandy Muller, microbiology, recently received a five-year, $1.9 million Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) grant from the NIH’s National Institute for General Medical Sciences…
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AMHERST, Mass. – Government funding and support for clean energy technology gave startup companies an innovation advantage, according to a new paper and a policy brief published by two University of…
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AMHERST, Mass. – Artificial intelligence (AI) experts at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the Baylor College of Medicine report that they have successfully addressed what they call a “…
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Angela de Oliveira , professor of experimental and public economics in the department of resource economics, has received a $205,000 standard grant from the National Science Foundation to study the…
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