UMass Dartmouth and the 102nd Intelligence Wing of the Air National Guard today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to develop education and workforce training in cybersecurity for personnel…
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Want to know what makes a pop tune rise to the top 100 on Spotify? Which baseball team stats are most important in predicting a win? Or what factors reported in a 911 call are most likely to mean…
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The population of Greater Boston is shifting in unprecedented ways, with impacts on communities across the region, according to a new reports series co-authored and published today by Boston…, Asian Americans in Greater Boston: Building Communities Old and New, Quincy and Fields Corner, Dorchester Paul Watanabe and Shauna Lo, the Institute for Asian American Studies, African Americans in Greater Boston: Challenges, Identities, Legacies , and, Movements, Brockton and Roxbury Barbara Lewis, the William Monroe Trotter Institute and Rita Kiki Edozie, McCormack Graduate School at UMass Boston, Native Americans in Massachusetts: New Homecomings and Ongoing Displacements, Aquinnah and Boston citywide J. Cedric Woods, the Institute for New England Native American Studies, Latinos in Greater Boston: Migration, New Communities and the Challenge of Displacement, Waltham and East Boston Lorna Rivera, the Mauricio Gaston Institute A final section, Newly Diverse Communities in Greater Boston, by Trevor Mattos of Boston Indicators, explores the impact of major…, A transformation – with an economic impact, The report finds that the percentage of nonwhite residents has increased in all 147 cities and towns in Greater Boston since 1990– during that time, the non-white population outside of Boston…, A changing pattern of immigration, The percentage of foreign-born residents in Greater Boston in 2017 is the highest it has been since before the Great Depression (although still lagging behind the levels reached from 1850 to 1930),…
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The Minutemen hockey team advanced to the first Frozen Four in program history with a 4-0 shutout over No. 3 seed Notre Dame in the Northeast Regional Championship on March 30 at SNHU Arena in…
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AMHERST, Mass. - Gov. Charlie Baker today celebrated the opening of the new Physical Sciences Building (PSB) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a facility funded by the state that fosters…
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UMass Medical School-Baystate faculty leader Amy S. Gottlieb, MD, has been named recipient of the 2020 Elnora Rhodes Service Award by the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM). The award…
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The Massachusetts Cultural Council has awarded University of Massachusetts Boston instructors Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Krysten Hill with $15,000 Artist Fellowships for excellence, ingenuity, and…
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AMHERST, Mass. – A University of Massachusetts Amherst biostatistician who directs the UMass-based Flu Forecasting Center of Excellence was invited by the White House Coronavirus Task Force to…
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UMass Boston’s graduate programs in clinical psychology, education, nursing, and public affairs are ranked as top 100 programs on U.S. News & World Report ’s 2021 Best Graduate Schools list,…
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Kriebel-David Epidemiologist and Public Health Prof. David Kriebel , who is reviewing data as it becomes available on the outbreak of COVID-19, sees cautiously encouraging trends on the containment…, What are the Possible Outcomes? , Kriebel says that the data from Wuhan suggests that a majority of people who become infected will experience only mild symptoms or be asymptomatic. They will most likely become immune from the…
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