Raymond Bradley takes a photo of the sediment samples acquired from Lake Igaliku, southern Greenland. One of the great mysteries of late medieval history is why did the Norse, who had established…
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Graduate programs in several disciplines at the University of Massachusetts Amherst rank among the best in the nation as reported in the new 2023 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s Best…, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, is ranked 31st. The , Isenberg School of Management, ’s full-time MBA program was named number 53, up from 57 last year, and the part-time MBA program was ranked at 32nd. The , College of Engineering, is ranked at 57. Rankings published for specialty areas in the College of Engineering include chemical engineering at 34; civil at 48; computer at 38; electrical/electronic/communications at 53;…, School of Public Policy, is at now No. 56 for graduate studies in public affairs, up from No. 58 last year. The , College of Education, is ranked 71st, up from 76th in 2022. Several programs in the , natural sciences, were ranked for the first time in four years, including: biological sciences at 74th; biostatistics at 31st; chemistry at 62nd; geology/earth sciences: 51st; mathematics: 59th; physics: 53rd; and…, social sciences and humanities, also were awarded national rankings – economics at 79 and psychology at 51., Rankings of other graduate programs were not updated this year, but they were republished in the new guide. They include:, Fine arts, at 89. In the , social sciences and humanities, —English at 41, history at 48, political science at 56, and sociology at 29, with the sex and gender studies program ranked 8th. In , health, —audiology at 26, speech language pathology at 45, and clinical psychology at 50.
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Jamila Lyiscott, , assistant professor of social justice education , was awarded the 2022 Ernest D. Morrell African Diaspora Emerging Scholar Award by the Comparative & International Education Society (CIES). “…
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UMass Amherst graduate student Aishwarya Sahai The time starts now. Over the next 72 hours, teams participating in the annual NYU Abu Dhabi International Hackathon for Social Good are challenged to…
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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, Michelle Wu, , the first woman and person of color elected to lead the city of Boston as mayor, will deliver the keynote address at the university’s 54th commencement ceremony on Friday, May 27, 2022. The Class…, Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, . “It is also fitting in that Mayor Wu shares with so many of our students the immigrant experience, the value of diversity, and the commitment to effect positive change in our society. We look…
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In the spring of 1950, a small doughnut shop in Quincy rebranded from Open Kettle to become Dunkin’ Donuts. Over the next seven decades, Dunkin’ has grown into a multibillion-dollar brand, with more…, Bonnie Miller, helped tell the story of how founder Bill Rosenberg turned Dunkin’ Donuts into one of the world's largest coffee and baked goods chains on a recent episode of The History Channel’s hit documentary…
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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 business 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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Among primates, including humans, hair is an important feature of diversity and evolution, serving functions tied to thermoregulation, protection, camouflage and signaling. However, the evolution of…
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New research led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst into the life and times of a New England salt marsh fundamentally changes our understanding of how salt marshes acquire the sediment that…
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A yearlong collaboration between student activists and University of Massachusetts Amherst administration has led to the launch of easily accessible equity-minded and graphics-rich data dashboards…
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