Juneteenth Celebration graphic This year, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the UMass system will officially celebrate Juneteenth for the first time. Join members of the UMass Dartmouth and…
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Nikolaus Grigorieff, PhD, and Bronwyn Lucas, PhD, have received a $1.3 million grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) to develop new computational and data collection tools for locating…
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The principal investigator of an ongoing clinical trial of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 mRNA vaccine said UMass Medical School intends to start enrolling by the end of June approximately 100…
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David Julian McClements Distinguished Professor of food science David Julian McClements served on the National Academy of Sciences Planning Committee for a workshop on building a more sustainable…
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The University of Massachusetts Office of the President and UMass Amherst Institute of Diversity Sciences , in partnership with the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center and the Massachusetts Business…, UMass President Marty Meehan, . “We are proud to sponsor these summits, which will bring together leaders from education, civic, and corporate sectors to learn from each other and advance diversity, equity and inclusion.” More…, UMass System Chancellor of Academic Programs/Senior Vice President of Economic Development Katherine Newman, began the NEXT Summits at the height of the pandemic to “get our world back on track” and accelerate the post-pandemic economic recovery in Massachusetts. The six previous NEXT events informed a…, ., UMass recently announced that its research expenditures had reached an all-time high of $687 million in FY20 , again making it the third-largest research university in Massachusetts and the fourth…
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Worcester Commons, the newest dining hall on campus, has received Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). Exterior of…
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Sabahat Rahman, SOM ’23, didn’t know the word for inequity when she was growing up, splitting time with her mom in California and her dad in Bangladesh, but she knew what it looked like. “It just did…
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Miguel Sena-Esteves, PhD, and Heather Gray-Edwards, PhD, DVM The Office of Business Development & Innovation at UMass Medical School has announced the 2021 BRIDGE Fund grants, which support…, Dunn, , MD, professor of surgery, his proposal, “Prevention of Pressure Ulcers: A Wireless Pressure Sensor System to Transform Best Practices.” Each project was awarded $250,000 over two years. …
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UMass Dartmouth Associate Professor Ronald Sherwin (Music) Inspired by initiatives like Singing for Change , their observations of community need, and a personal desire to make music with a purpose…, Associate Professor Ronald Sherwin, (Music) and Dr. Sarah McQuarrie of Bridgewater State University envisioned a vocal ensemble drawn from across campuses and community organizations that would use music to share a message of social…
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The University of Massachusetts System Office of Technology Commercialization and Ventures (OTCV) recently announced the recipients of their 2021 grant awards which include UMass Dartmouth faculty…, Professor Sukalyan Sengupta, (Civil & Environmental Engineering) received an award for his project “Resource Recovery from Spent Lithium-Ion Batteries (LIBs).” According to Sengupta, spent LIBs contain valuable metals in…, Professor Amit Tandon, (Mechanical Engineering) and his project “Aurelia: Low-cost user-friendly depth changing vehicle for ocean sensors” dive into the issue surrounding a growing need for inexpensive devices that detect…, Assistant Professor Steve Zanganeh, ’s (Bioengineering) project “Ultra-Effective Air Filtration/Purification Media Based on Anti-Microbial Coated Advanced Flocked Fibrous Structures” utilizes a novel air-scrubbing/purification media…
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