Sally C. Kent, PhD, associate professor of medicine in the Diabetes Center of Excellence, has been named the George F. and Sybil H. Fuller Foundation Term Chair in Diabetes. Dr. Kent studies…
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UMass Lowell has once again been recognized for its comprehensive sustainability efforts across campus, this time with a 2019 Leading by Example award from the commonwealth of Massachusetts. …
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UMass Boston’s Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI) has named Cindy Thomas , MS, CRC its new director. Thomas has worked for ICI for more than 30 years, most recently serving as interim…
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Professors Emery Berger, Prashant Shenoy and Ramesh Sitaraman of the College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) have been named Fellow by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the…
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A team led by director of the Gloucester Marine Station Adrian Jordaan and including ecologists Michelle Staudinger and Allison Roy of the U.S. Geological Survey recently received support for their…
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Jamila Lyiscott, assistant professor of social justice education, is being recognized as a 2019-20 UMass Amherst Spotlight Scholar. Growing up as a first-generation American in a working-class…
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The annual Hot Chocolate Run for Safe Passage raised over $632,000 this year, with many UMass Amherst faculty, staff and students participating. The department of sociology organized a team of 11…
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Well, looks like the secret is out. College Gazette celebrated UMass Dartmouth for consistently demonstrating excellence in learning opportunities for students. However, no one at UMassD was…
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Chancellor Michael F. Collins and the UMass Medical School community acknowledge with sadness the passing of Pete Frates, who raised millions of dollars for ALS research and whose indefatigable…
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A new study led by Robert Wellman, PhD, finds that if teenagers learn to recognize when they’re feeling down and how to manage those emotions, they ‘re less likely to self-medicate through alcohol.…
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