Testing for COVID-19, more commonly known as the coronavirus, is critical given the current global pandemic. UMass Boston Associate Professor of Engineering Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli specializes…
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AMHERST, Mass. – Urgent research at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is investigating whether health care providers can safely reuse protective face masks, which could slow the Covid-19…
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Stating that “Graduating medical students are ready: let’s get them to work,” Chancellor Michael F. Collins announced that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has approved a bold and unprecedented…
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As children’s regular routines are upended during the COVID-19 pandemic, they turn to the adults in their lives for emotional as well as physical safety. A newly released resource guide co-authored…
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Anastasia Khvorova, PhD, professor of RNA therapeutics at UMass Medical School, spoke to Discover magazine last week about new efforts in her lab to develop a vaccine using RNA-based therapies…
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Graduate student Rebecca Olivieri usually teaches a group fitness class to around 20 students, faculty and staff every Thursday at noon at the Campus Recreation Center. Leading the 45-minute interval…
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UMass Boston’s Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality (WGS) Studies Department dedicated this Women’s History Month to promoting feminism and activism; however, due to the coronavirus, students and faculty…
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BOSTON – UMass President Marty Meehan and the chancellors of the UMass campuses in Amherst, Boston Dartmouth, and Lowell announced today that the university will adjust student room, board and…
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The old radio tower was the first structure to fall. The demolition team wedge-cut two of the tower’s steel supports and dropped it like a tree. Then the former Massachusetts Department of…
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In a letter to UMass Medical School Chancellor Michael F. Collins, the interim chancellor of UMass Boston thanked the entire UMMS community for its distinct role in rising to the coronavirus health…
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