AMHERST, Mass. – A University of Massachusetts Amherst health informatician is developing a mobile health (mHealth) system, leveraging a wearable sensor that slips on a finger like a ring, to monitor…
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AMHERST, Mass. – In results released this week, an international team of wildlife ecologists reports that the trend toward more reliance on private game farms and reserves to manage and conserve free…
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AMHERST, Mass. – A new Congressionally requested report released by a panel including Jane Fountain, director of the National Center for Digital Government at the University of Massachusetts…
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science announced recently that it has selected Brookhaven National Laboratory to lead one of five National Quantum Information Science Research…
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The University of Massachusetts Amherst Cranberry Station in East Wareham, Mass., will receive $5.75 million in state support to fund laboratory improvements to its lab facilities. The funding, which…
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The University of Massachusetts, , continued its climb into the ranks of the top colleges and universities in the country in the 2021 Times Higher Education’s World University Rankings released on Wednesday. UMass is now ranked 60 th…
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On Sunday, Sept. 13, the quad on the UMass Medical School campus will be unusually quiet. Instead of thousands gathering in person to walk or run in support of cancer research, care and clinical…
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The first column of structural steel at the medical building under construction on the UMass Medical School campus was placed last week and continuing progress is expected to be rapid. Scheduled to…
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UMass Medical School researchers Gopal Vijayaraghavan, MD, MPH, and Mary Rusckowski, PhD, are among the investigators for 11 projects that have received a total of $8.3 million in capital funding…, Related stories on UMassMed News:, Massachusetts Life Sciences Center capital funding to support three programs at Medical School Gov. Baker signs Life Science Bond Bill, continuing state’s investment in biomedical research
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Two faculty researchers in the Department of Environmental, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department of Environmental, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences will study the cause of heat waves and Prof.…, Extreme Weathers, Historically, heat waves have not been that frequent for the Northeast and so people are not very well-equipped to handle them, Barlow notes. “Many houses don't have central air-conditioning and…
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