The Leduc Center at UMass Dartmouth has recently started a Jumpstart for Young Children (Jumpstart) program that will pair 30 UMass Dartmouth students as tutors and mentors with 100 Pre-K children…, Jumpstart CEO Naila Bolus, , “Jumpstart is proud to be able to partner with UMass Dartmouth to support local children and communities hit hardest by gaps in access to critical early learning opportunities.” Teams of 5-7…, UMass Dartmouth Acting Chancellor Mark Preble, . “With Jumpstart, our students are learning valuable skills for their future while making a difference in the lives of young children in the region.” “Jumpstart is a great resource for PACE’s Head…, Pam Kuechler, Executive Director of PACE, Inc., , a private, non-profit, community based, anti-poverty agency serving the Greater New Bedford area. Jumpstart Corps Members receive up to sixty hours of high-quality pre-service training and ongoing…
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Today, U.S. News & World Report announced their 2021 College Rankings, and UMass Dartmouth again ranked high for its impact on the upward social mobility of its students. UMass Dartmouth, the…, Acting Chancellor Mark Preble, . “These rankings also represent the ambitious drive of our students who use our University as the foundation for their future.”
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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