Senior Public Health page public health major Katherine Mayer, an EMT, wanted to help UMass Lowell’s EMM landing page-2 Emergency Management team with “something they didn’t have yet” for her …, Serving the University Community, Mayer’s emergency dispensing site operation plan dovetails with the city’s plan to distribute emergency supplies to Lowell residents at a central location. The idea is to make sure that UML students…, Honors Capstones, The Honors College, which requires every senior to hold a public presentation about their honors capstone project or thesis, faces a unique challenge as up to 160 seniors prepare to take that final…
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Prof. Remold-Susanna Susanna Remold , the new chair of the Biology landing page Department of Biological Sciences , is an expert on the evolution and ecology of disease-causing microbes that can…, Q: What should people be doing right now in response to COVID-19?, A:, Everybody should be staying home. Here in the U.S., we are not responding quickly enough to this crisis. We are not taking strong enough action, and when we do, we are days or weeks too late. The…, Q: Some people still think stay-at-home orders are too drastic – even policymakers who are getting expert advice. Why is that?, A:, I think it’s because we tend to respond based on our experience. But if we do that in this case, we will underreact. The rate of increase in infections and deaths grows exponentially, not steadily,…, Q: Other countries have had success with less drastic measures. Why won’t they work here?, A:, You can intervene early with relatively cheap measures. The later you respond, the more costly it is in terms of lives and the economy. Widespread testing and contact tracking are key to…, Q: What insights into pandemics have you gained from your research into the ecology and evolution of organisms that change hosts?, A:, If you think about the WHO 6 pandemic phases document World Health Organization’s six stages for a pathogen to become a pandemic and about how human interactions with their environments have…, Q: Do you have any other advice on how we can get better at dealing with this pandemic and prepare for future pandemics?, A:, The task force demonstrated the power of people with vastly different backgrounds working together to address a critical threat. It included experts in epidemiology, ecology, entomology, agriculture…
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Dear Students, Faculty and Staff, The transition to remote learning resulting from the COVID-19 emergency has caused significant disruption to students’ educational experience this semester.…
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A recent research report titled “ The Union Effect in Massachusetts ,” part of a new series called Massachusetts Labor Matters , has been published by the Labor Resource Center (LRC) and the …
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Cynthia Schofield has recently become the third UMass Boston student to receive the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship . This is the second year in a row that UMass Boston students have…
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How many programs can confidently say: “We have individuals every year who run for political office”? And how many of those individuals are a part of a diverse cohort of women leaders 2020 is the…
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Graduate programs in several science and social science disciplines at the University of Massachusetts Amherst rank among the best in the nation in fresh rankings featured in the U.S. News &…
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Graduate programs in business, education and engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst rank among the best in the nation as reported in the U.S. News & World Report 2021 edition of…
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AMHERST, Mass. — Daniel Gerber, associate dean for academic affairs, is leading a School of Public Health and Health Sciences (SPHHS) effort to assist the state with its COVID-19 response efforts.…
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Olivia Laramie, a graduate student at the School of Public Policy, presented a paper at the 16th International Research Association for Interdisciplinary Studies (RAIS) Conference on Social Sciences…
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