UMass Boston physics major and Honors College student Joseph Farah is sharing in a $3 million Breakthrough Prize for being part of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration that took the…
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The UMass Medical School community will come together this week to celebrate student and faculty accomplishments and officially launch the new academic year. The signature event, Convocation, will be…, Justin A. Maykel, , MD, associate professor of surgery, will be the inaugural holder of the newly endowed Joseph M. Streeter and Mary Streeter DeFeudis Chair in Surgery . Dr. Maykel is a leading expert in…, Beth A. McCormick, , PhD, vice chair and professor of microbiology & physiological systems, will be appointed to hold the Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research Chair . Dr. McCormick is the founding director…, Lawrence M. Rhein, , MD, MPH, associate professor of pediatrics, will be appointed to hold the Stoddard Chair of Pediatrics . In 2016, Dr. Rhein joined the UMMS community as the chief of the Division of Neonatology,…, Celia A. Schiffer, , PhD, professor of biochemistry & molecular pharmacology, will be appointed to hold the Gladys Smith Martin Chair in Oncology , which was previously held by Dr. Maykel. Employing…
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Julie Bowditch, advancement officer for community fundraising at UMass Medical School and UMass Memorial Medical Center, has been named one of the Worcester Business Journal ’s 40 Under Forty Class…
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UMass Amherst ranks No. 65 nationally and 159th worldwide according to the 2019-20 evaluation of higher education institutions by the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR). The rankings place…
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AMHERST, Mass. – A recent study by economists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has – for the first time – found a link between exposure to air pollution during early childhood with the…
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AMHERST, Mass. – Foods fried in vegetable oil are popular worldwide, but research about the health effects of this cooking technique has been largely inconclusive and focused on healthy people. For…
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AMHERST, Mass. – An analysis of policy research on nearly 50 years of school vaccine mandates has found that while vaccine requirements are commonly considered to have made a major, if not essential…
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A group of UMass Medical School students have dedicated themselves to guiding and advising teen mothers. The Mentors for Young Mothers student group facilitates health education workshops and…
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UMass Boston raised $23.8 million in fiscal year 2019, setting a new annual record for fundraising in the university’s 55-year history. The previous record was $17.6 million. The fundraising total…
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BOSTON — The UMass Boston Chancellor Search Committee, holding its inaugural meeting, today launched an effort to attract “world-class candidates” for the 16,000-student urban public research…
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