College of Nursing & Health Sciences Associate Dean Dr. June Andrews Horowitz The first year of infancy is critical to a child’s cognitive and socioemotional development, according to Dr. June…, PPD adversely affects mother-child interaction and the child’s later development, The study of the infant-mother relationship and how that critical bond is affected by post-partum depression has been the research focus of Horowitz’s career. She writes that postpartum depression…, Grant will enable future development and testing of MommaConnect, The grant will enable Horowitz and the team to advance the development of the MommaConnect app prototype with expanded features, a technology partly developed at UMass Dartmouth by Horowitz in…
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Dr. Pingguo He Dr. Pingguo He, Professor of Fisheries Oceanography at UMass Dartmouth’s School for Marine Science & Technology (SMAST), has been awarded the International Council for the…
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On February 8, 2022, UMass Dartmouth and Congressman William Keating announced a $4.3M grant from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to research projects through the Marine and UnderSea Technology…, UMass Dartmouth Chancellor Mark A. Fuller, . "We want to educate students from the SouthCoast and the Commonwealth for Blue Economy jobs and produce graduates who will contribute to the industry's success, and with this grant, that is what we…, Congressman Bill Keating, . "UMass Dartmouth's Marine and UnderSea Technology program will create a new generation of a highly trained workforce, addressing the needs of the U.S. Navy as well as the emerging blue economy in…, Senator Edward Markey, . "This continued federal investment—now totaling more than $13 million in awards since 2020—illustrates the MUST program's capacity for high caliber research as well as the impact of the continued…, Senator Elizabeth Warren, . "Southeastern Massachusetts can and should be the center of the offshore wind revolution. This grant will spur innovation across the South Coast," said , Congressman Jake Auchincloss, . MUST has funded 29 research projects for a total of $13.M, bringing together regional collaborators such as NUWCDIVNPT to strengthen the Navy's access to cutting-edge research and build a pipeline…, Ron Vien, Technical Director, at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport (NUWCDIVNPT). “MUST’s success is the result of a very productive collaboration between the Office of Naval Research, the Naval Undersea Warfare…, UMass Dartmouth Interim Provost Ramprasad Balasubramanian, , who leads the Marine and UnderSea Technology (MUST) research program.
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New research led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst definitively resolves a long-standing discrepancy in the geologic record that pitted studies of marine ice-sheet behavior against those…
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A male construction workers places a board on a wall AMHERST, Mass. – A new study released today by the University of Massachusetts Amherst Labor Center reveals that nearly 1-in-10 Rhode Island…
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Brooke Owens Fellows logo of an astronaut helmet with wings on each side AMHERST, Mass. – Amanda Desmond, a junior economics and space science major in the University of Massachusetts Amherst…
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Associate Professor , Jessica Schiffman, , the interim department head of the Chemical Engineering Department at UMass Amherst, has been selected to the “2021 I&EC Research Class of Influential Researchers – the Americas” by the journal…
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“Church Space and the Capital in Prewar Japan,” a groundbreaking new book by Garrett Washington, associate professor of history at UMass Amherst, has been published by the University of Hawai'i Press…
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Among primates, including humans, hair is an important feature of diversity and evolution, serving functions tied to thermoregulation, protection, camouflage and signaling. However, the evolution of…
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New research led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst into the life and times of a New England salt marsh fundamentally changes our understanding of how salt marshes acquire the sediment that…
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