Only five to seven percent of applicants are accepted into the American Psychological Association’s Minority Fellowship Program , which covers the remaining tuition for the accepted student’s…
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Nearly 40 years into the HIV epidemic, the Centers for Disease Control finds there are still about 40,000 new infections a year. Three-quarters of new infections are discovered in people of color…
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In concluding the largest comprehensive fundraising campaign in the history of UMass Medical School, Chancellor Michael F. Collins has announced that the Medical School surpassed its $250 million…
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An innovative partnership has brought 20 first-year students from Washington D.C., to UMass Lowell on merit scholarships for the first time. The students all came through the DC-CAP homepage…
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AMHERST, Mass. – A team of researchers headed by Chaitra Gopalappa, an engineer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has been awarded a four-year, $1.2-million grant from the National Science…
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The university recently welcomed over 150 new faculty to campus this year. To begin their time on campus, new faculty participated in a week of onboarding activities, beginning with the new faculty…
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Congressman Stephen Lynch visited UMass Boston on Tuesday, kicking off the McCormack Graduate School’s “Your Congress” series with a wide-ranging discussion with students, faculty, and staff on…
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Under the warm sun of the last official day of summer, thousands of people, many wearing team colors, converged on the UMass Medical School campus in Worcester on Sunday, Sept. 22, for the 2019 UMass…
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The UMass Dartmouth Observatory and the Astronomical Society of Southern New England (ASSNE) are pleased to invite the university community and the public to their free fall night-sky observation…
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AMHERST, Mass. – A University of Massachusetts Amherst interdisciplinary research team has received a $3.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to measure the impact of a diet…
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