AARP Foundation has awarded a grant to the Gerontology Institute at the University of Massachusetts Boston for a two-year project to increase access to economic opportunities for older people of…
Type: News
Harvard University’s James Bryant Conant University Professor Danielle Allen delivered the keynote address at UMass Boston’s virtual 2020 Fall Convocation, outlining “red flags” signaling that…
Type: News
Officially launching an “anything but ordinary” academic year with a virtual convocation address, UMass Boston Chancellor Marcelo Suárez-Orozco called on the higher education community to “sharpen…
Type: News
The Massachusetts Women of Color Coalition (MAWOCC) and the UMass Boston Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy will jointly host a virtual forum entitled, “Standing in our Power: Women of…, About MAWOCC, The Massachusetts Women of Color Coalition is a statewide organization dedicated to eradicating the racial inequities among women of color created by structural, institutional, interpersonal, and…, About the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy at UMass Boston, The Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy in the McCormack Graduate School seeks to empower and increase diverse women’s leadership to achieve more just, responsive, and intersectional…
Type: News
Malawi has one of the highest rates of cervical cancer in the world, with an estimated 2,979 women dying from the disease every year. Cervical cancer accounts for 45.4 percent of all cancers in…
Type: News
The University of Massachusetts Amherst is a launch partner for The Collective Think Tank, a global consortium of some of today’s greatest academic minds and industry leaders focused on gender parity…, PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS, Ohio University College of Business Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University (Canada) University of Oregon University of Nevada, Las Vegas Sport Research & Innovation Initiative…
Type: News
Five researchers from campus have been selected to receive a one-year, $100,000 grant from the National Science Foundation’s “ 10 Big Ideas for Future NSF Investments ” series to conduct a series of…
Type: News
You can’t herd them, you can’t put two in a corral and hope they will breed to produce offspring with desirable traits, but the humans of 10,000 to 13,000 years ago figured out how to domesticate…
Type: News
A collaboration of seafood processing firms, lobstermen and others in the Gloucester area, with fish ecologists and food science researchers on campus, have launched a new socio-economic study to…
Type: News
Virologist Mandy Muller, microbiology, recently received a five-year, $1.9 million Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) grant from the NIH’s National Institute for General Medical Sciences…
Type: News