Justin Baez Peguero Every year, the SGA homepage Student Government Association (SGA) surveys undergraduate students to learn more about their most pressing needs and concerns, so it can advocate…
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Associate Professor Chris Harris How many law enforcement officers, military veterans and active duty service members are affiliated with far-right groups that commit acts of domestic terrorism? Are…, Assessing Insider Threats, Professor Arie Perliger (right) and Associate Professor Neil Shortland (left) Harris says that the insider threats team will first mine Perliger’s database for information about law enforcement…, New Focus on Domestic Terrorism, Perliger and the cover of his 2020 book on violent far-right extremism, "American Zealots." Perliger says the Department of Defense grant will use similar methods to look at affiliation with…, Do Words Matter?, Neil Shortland Shortland is co-principal investigator on the $1.13 million National Institute of Justice grant to investigate whether extremist and hateful postings on social media can be analyzed to…
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Robert H. Brown Jr., DPhil, MD An international team of investigators has discovered that an inorganic polyphosphate released by nerve cells known as astrocytes in people with amyotrophic lateral…
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Gang Han, PhD Gang Han, PhD, professor of biochemistry & molecular biotechnology, has been elected by the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) to its College of…
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While most of their classmates will learn where they will serve their residencies on Friday, March 18, members of the T.H. Chan School of Medicine Class of 2022 who participated in the Ophthalmology…
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The University of Massachusetts has received a $330,000 grant from the Richard and Susan Smith Family Foundation to support development of a pilot “early college” program that would provide high…, , However, more than 80 percent of Massachusetts high school students do not have access to an approved early college program, and few of those students live within reasonable travel distance to a…, UMass President Marty Meehan, said. “With the Commonwealth Collegiate Academy, we want to build on existing partnerships and build new ones to lower the barriers that are preventing too many young people from achieving their…, Katherine S. Newman, UMass System Chancellor for Academic Programs & Senior Vice President for Economic Development, said: “The creation of the Commonwealth Collegiate Academy is consistent with the University’s mission of providing broad access to the life-changing benefits provided by a college degree. We are…, Erika Giampietro, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Alliance for Early College, , said. “The Commonwealth Collegiate Academy can help make meaningful progress towards our goal of serving 45,000 students with high-quality Early College and ultimately closing a quarter of the…, Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education Executive Director Ed Lambert, said. “The delivery of high-quality content in accelerated career themed pathways is something that the state's bu~siness leaders strongly support. Early College works and scaling up this evidence-…, , Support, tutoring, and advising will be provided by partner high school staff members working in close collaboration with UMass staff members. The program would be, rolled out over a four-year period, beginning as soon as fall 2022. The first phase of the pilot will include UMass Dartmouth and UMass Lowell, with UMass Amherst and UMass Boston joining the pilot…
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McKenzie Ferrari, a 2022 Goldwater Scholar Physics major McKenzie Ferrari ‘23 has been named a 2022 Goldwater Scholar, becoming the first recipient of the prestigious recognition in UMass Dartmouth’s…
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Three students at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have won scholarships from the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation . Zeynep Alptekin The…, Zeynep Alptekin, ’23, , Ashley Eng, ’23, and , Wyatt Tran, ’23, who all will be dedicating their careers to work as scientists, mathematicians and engineers. The Goldwater Foundation provides a continuing source of highly qualified scholars to work as…
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New research, led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst and published recently in the journal Climate of the Past , is the first to provide a continuous look at a shift in climate, called the…
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