2022 Greeley Scholar for Peace Studies, Soe Mying, sits and smiles at camera This year’s Greeley Scholar page at UML Greeley Scholar for Peace Studies , a Burmese journalist in hiding from the…
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EMTs, from left, Andrew Finerty, Angela Piso and P.J. Roe stand in front of UMass Lowell EMS car Neither rental car snafu nor ice storm could keep 16 students from UMass Lowell’s Emergency Medical…
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Art and Design Associate Professor Ingrid Hess, center, with Sheila Kirschbaum, right, director of the Tsongas Industrial History Center and co-editor of one of Hess's books, and Paulette Renault-…
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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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UMass Amherst postdoctoral researcher Lucas Griffin An international team of researchers, led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has compiled a massive dataset that overlays years’ worth of…
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A disbelief in human evolution was associated with higher levels of prejudice, racist attitudes and support of discriminatory behavior against Blacks, immigrants and the LGBTQ community in the U.S.,…
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UMass researchers led by Sanjay Arwade , civil engineering, are collaborating on the National Offshore Wind Research and Development Consortium’s project to quantify and assess the risk to offshore…
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Next time you order a pizza or whip up a creamy risotto, go ahead and load on the mushrooms. Adding more of the edible fungi into your diet may be one way to counteract the health risks associated…
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