Dr. Pingguo He Dr. Pingguo He, Professor of Fisheries Oceanography at UMass Dartmouth’s School for Marine Science & Technology (SMAST), has been awarded the International Council for the…
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Brooke Owens Fellows logo of an astronaut helmet with wings on each side AMHERST, Mass. – Amanda Desmond, a junior economics and space science major in the University of Massachusetts Amherst…
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Jennifer Rauch , assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, is collaborating on a two-year, $700,000 National Institutes of Health grant to develop a new technology to treat…
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Five members of the UMass Dartmouth Career Center staff wear masks and smile at the camera The UMass Dartmouth Career Center has big plans for UMassD students. Located in the Campus Center, the…, Un Yeong Park, , who was recently appointed Director of the Career Center. "We want to focus not just on career preparation, but career education, so our students gain the necessary skills to thrive in whatever…, Lynda Jarrett, Head of Digital Solutions & Technology at Amazon Robotics, . "I left that visit inspired and excited about the collaboration opportunities we have and the partnership we're building with UMass Dartmouth!" The Career Center has also placed a new emphasis on…, Richy Kroch, , a senior in the Accounting program. "I am very grateful for coming to the Career Center for help." Students, alumni, or employers interested in these dynamic offerings should contact the Career…
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UMass alumni Dan and Diane M. Casey Riccio, PhD, have pledged $15 million to UMass Chan Medical School to further expedite and support advances in neuroscience research. The gift includes $10 million…
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UMass Chan Medical School alum Christine Cassel, MD’76, has made her mark as a clinical, education and policy leader, and now as a benefactor to her alma mater. The Christine K. Cassel MD’76 Faculty…
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The UMass Center for Clinical and Translational Science (UMCCTS) has awarded seven pilot grants to faculty and research collaborators to accelerate the translation of basic discoveries into…, Automatic wide-field optical imaging for transplant organ viability assessment, Babak Movahedi, MD, PhD, assistant professor of surgery Yu Chen, PhD, associate professor of biomedical engineering, UMass Amherst Haichong Zhang, PhD, assistant professor of biomedical engineering,…, STING agonism for the treatment of COVID-19, Katherine A. Fitzgerald, PhD, the Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research Chair , professor of medicine, vice chair for research in the Department of Medicine and director of the Program in…, Correction of defective splicing in fragile X syndrome with therapeutic potential, Joel Richter, PhD, the Arthur F. Koskinas Chair in Neuroscience and professor of molecular medicine The project will help researchers better understand fragile X syndrome and its associated…, Isolated single islet studies to define the factors underlying the heterogeneity of islet and peri-islet lymphocytic infiltration in human type 1 diabetes, David M. Harlan, MD, the William and Doris Krupp professor of medicine, professor of medicine and co-director of the Diabetes Center of Excellence Sally C. Kent, PhD, the George F. and Sybil H.…, Dissecting optical coherence tomography features to predict risk of future advanced age-related macular degeneration, Tianxiao Huan, PhD, assistant professor of ophthalmology & visual sciences Johanna Seddon, MD, ScM, professor of ophthalmology & visual sciences and director of the Macular Degeneration…, A deep learning-based, real-time vascular anatomy assessment tool for emergency stroke interventions, Anna Kuhn, MD, PhD, assistant professor of radiology Mohammed Salman Shazeeb, PhD, assistant professor of radiology Clifford Lindsay, PhD, assistant professor of radiology Researchers will expand…, Tinnitus characterization using reverse correlation with applications to retraining therapies, Divya A. Chari, MD, assistant professor of otolaryngology Adam Lammert, PhD, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Researchers will work to validate a novel…
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Michael Sakamoto, performing arts curator and director of the Asian and Asian American Arts and Culture Program for the Fine Arts Center has been awarded a $15,000 fellowship in choreography from the…
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AMHERST, Mass. – New research on the gender gap in faculty in finance programs, shows a significant gap, with only 16% of the finance faculty at top business schools being women. UMass Amherst…
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A team of Lowell High School students present their design-thinking project during a recent visit to the Innovation Hub at 110 Canal Street, hosted by the Rist DifferenceMaker Institute. Lowell High…, Rising to the Challenge, The Essex North Shore Agricultural and Technical School team of Mya Doucette, Gaby Guimaraes, Zach Medailleu and Gabriel Olafsson earned $500 for their winning pitch of ZuMix, an energy-boosting…, Opportunities Abound, During the Lowell High visit to iHub’s 110 Canal St. location, students heard from two DifferenceMaker alumni: Rajia Abdelaziz ’16, co-founder of smart jewelry and accessory company invisaWear…
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