Alumnus Paul Manning ’77 and his wife, Diane, have committed $3 million through their family foundation to expand the Manning Innovation Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The gift…, A Catalyst for Partnerships, IALS is the catalyst for industry and academic partnerships. The institute contributes to the creation of new ventures and products in collaboration with the Isenberg School of Management , the …
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College of Nursing & Health Sciences Associate Dean Dr. June Andrews Horowitz The first year of infancy is critical to a child’s cognitive and socioemotional development, according to Dr. June…, PPD adversely affects mother-child interaction and the child’s later development, The study of the infant-mother relationship and how that critical bond is affected by post-partum depression has been the research focus of Horowitz’s career. She writes that postpartum depression…, Grant will enable future development and testing of MommaConnect, The grant will enable Horowitz and the team to advance the development of the MommaConnect app prototype with expanded features, a technology partly developed at UMass Dartmouth by Horowitz in…
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New research led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst definitively resolves a long-standing discrepancy in the geologic record that pitted studies of marine ice-sheet behavior against those…
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A male construction workers places a board on a wall AMHERST, Mass. – A new study released today by the University of Massachusetts Amherst Labor Center reveals that nearly 1-in-10 Rhode Island…
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Associate Professor , Jessica Schiffman, , the interim department head of the Chemical Engineering Department at UMass Amherst, has been selected to the “2021 I&EC Research Class of Influential Researchers – the Americas” by the journal…
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“Church Space and the Capital in Prewar Japan,” a groundbreaking new book by Garrett Washington, associate professor of history at UMass Amherst, has been published by the University of Hawai'i Press…
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A University of Massachusetts Amherst epidemiologist has received a five-year, $3 million Outstanding New Environmental Scientist (ONES) grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health…
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The UMass Chan Medical School Diversity and Inclusion Office has invited two dynamic women to accompany the Medical School in centering Black lives as part of its commitment to diversity, equity and…
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Kristin Mattocks, PhD, MPH, professor of population & quantitative health sciences and associate dean for veterans affairs at UMass Chan Medical School, has joined the editorial board of Women’s…
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An Oregon couple whose baby was diagnosed with an ultra-rare genetic disorder has launched a foundation to raise money to accelerate development of therapies for the condition, called UBA5 deficiency…
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