On Friday, June 18, Veterans Inc. hosted its annual Stand Down event, a health and services fair designed to connect homeless and impoverished veteran families with a variety of community resources.…
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Several UML students helped develop "Favor," a new tabletop role playing game from their indie gaming studio startup, Eclipse Entertainment. Life is rough on the streets of ArcRidge, a nation-city…
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Chemistry major Trang Vy Bui, right, poses for a photo from the observation deck of Lotte Tower in Seoul with a friend she met while studying abroad in South Korea this spring. After seeing the same…
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AMHERST, Mass. – Decision-makers around the world are increasingly interested in using ecosystem solutions such as mangroves, coral reefs, sand dunes and forests on steep slopes to help buffer the…
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AMHERST, Mass. – In first-of-its kind research led by a University of Massachusetts Amherst psychotherapy researcher, mental health care patients matched with therapists who had a strong track record…
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AMHERST, Mass. – A new business model in residential construction is largely exploiting undocumented workers and costing Massachusetts taxpayers as much as nearly $82 million annually, according to…
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The Dan and Diane Riccio Fund for Neuroscience has awarded four teams of UMass Medical School researchers $50,000 seed grants for interdisciplinary collaborations leading to innovative discoveries…, “How do human microbiota determine neuronal health?” (new), Mark J. Alkema, , PhD, professor of neurobiology and submitting principal investigator, with collaborators Alexandra B. Byrne, PhD, assistant professor of neurobiology; Doyle V. Ward, PhD, associate professor of…, “Inhibiting SARM1-mediated neuronal degeneration” (new), Alexandra B. Byrne, , PhD, assistant professor of neurobiology and submitting PI, with Read Pukkila-Worley, MD, associate professor of medicine, and Paul R. Thompson, PhD, professor of biochemistry & molecular…, “Gasdermins as biomarkers and therapeutic targets for multiple sclerosis” (renewal), Katherine A. Fitzgerald, , PhD, the Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research Chair III , professor of medicine, vice chair of research for the Department of Medicine, director of the Program in Innate Immunity and…, "Characterizing CNS myeloid cells in ALS pathogenesis" (renewal), Paul L. Greer, , PhD, assistant professor of molecular medicine and submitting PI, with Robert H. Brown, Jr., DPhil, MD, the Leo P. and Theresa M. LaChance Chair in Medical Research and professor of neurology.
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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 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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