AMHERST, Mass. – While the internet is often heralded as an equalizer, a seemingly level playing field, the digital world also acts as an extension of and platform for the insidious prejudices and…, The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance, Celeste Vaughan Curington, Jennifer Hickes Lundquist, Ken-Hou Lin University of California Press - February, 2021 Hardcover/Paperback/eBook, 320 pages ISBN: 9780520293458
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School of Medicine student Kassandra Jean-Marie, SOM ’24, credits the UMass Baccalaureate MD Pathway Program for helping her pursue a medical degree and increase diversity in the medical field,…
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Dr. Long-Bellil is assistant professor of family medicine & community health and research consultant for Commonwealth Medicine, where she has directed research, policy and training projects…
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On February 17, 2021, UMass Dartmouth earned the prestigious Gold award rank as part of its 2021-2022 Military Friendly® School designation by the eponymous organization Military Friendly®. With a…
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Because Isaiah Langa ’20 studies Link this for finance landing page finance in the link this for landing page Manning School of Business and has been investing on his own for several years, he…, Unprecedented Event, “I think that’s blown over now, but it makes an interesting story,” says Jain, who believes two things happened with the GameStop craze: “One that was not new and one that was very new.” What wasn’t…, Consensus Language, For that, he defers to Manning School colleague Kronrod-Ann Ann Kronrod , an assistant professor of marketing, entrepreneurship and innovation whose research areas include social networks,…, ‘Just a Phase’, While trading apps like Robinhood have become increasingly popular with young people — particularly during the pandemic — Jain discourages his finance students from using them. “Investing is a…
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Assoc. Prof. Enah-Comfort Comfort Enah , who holds the new Donna Manning Endowed Chair in the Nursing landing page Solomont School of Nursing , knows about disparate health outcomes in low-income…, Q: Your best-known project to date involves NPR story on Comfort Enah research a video game designed to help prevent HIV infections among Black teenagers in rural Alabama. How did you come up with…, A:, My dissertation research involved an intervention to help Cameroonian girls postpone sexual activity, primarily to prevent infection with HIV. When I got to Alabama, I talked to people who could…, Q: You are one of the principal investigators on a $1.2 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to try to reduce maternal and infant deaths in Cameroon. What are the…, A:, Cameroon has the ninth-highest rate of maternal deaths in the world. A lot of deaths can be attributed to problems of care and a lack of access to care. There are interventions for many issues that…, Q: What other research have you done?, A:, The grants I take the lead on mostly involve HIV prevention, maternal-child outcomes and adolescent health. I’m interested in looking at diseases that manifest at the maternal-child level – what are…, Q: You did multiple studies with the teenagers in Alabama before you even started to develop the video game, and then you went back to them at every stage of game development to get their feedback.…, A:, Yes. With my public health background, I’m always exploring ways to make whatever interventions I develop sustainable, and to do that, you have to have buy-in from the community. In Cameroon, we’re…
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The more UMass Lowell puts into its composting and recycling efforts, the more it continues to get back. From turning food scraps into compost for campus landscaping to being the first campus in the…
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AMHERST, Mass. – Serena Sarage, a native of South Hadley, has realized her two-pronged dream of moving to Colorado and joining the heroic efforts of the nursing workforce during a once-in-a-century…
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AMHERST, Mass. – The 28th Annual Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival and the 2020-2021 UMass Amherst History Department Feinberg Series co-present an online conversation with the acclaimed…
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What are the practical implications of the new strains of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19? What advice do people need? John P. Haran , MD, PhD, associate professor of emergency medicine and…, What do we know about the coronavirus mutations and how prevalent they are in the community?, “These variants are the natural evolution of viruses, and not just viruses, but life. Bacteria do this on a slower scale and humans do it on a much slower scale. What viruses do is they introduce…, What is the impact of the new variants?, “The B.1.1.7 strain had mutations that made it easier to make copies of itself. It is causing a lot higher number of viral particles in the upper respiratory tract. And that gives it an advantage…, Do the current mRNA vaccines appear to protect against known variants?, “As far as we know right now, we believe that the vaccine is still effective because of where the mutations occur. “Pfizer put out recently a non-peer-reviewed paper in which they took the serum from…, Are the current guidelines about mask wearing and social distancing still what people should follow?, “Those policies don’t need to be changed; they need to be adhered to. It is more important than ever. The problem with the pandemic is as it keeps going on, people get tired of wearing a mask, social…, What about being less at risk when you’re outdoors?, “Being outside is just a proxy measure for social distancing. If you’re outside and you’re doing things you’re usually farther apart. Air circulation can also be thought to be part of that. But cold…, Are people who previously had COVID-19 getting reinfected with the variant strains?, “Yes they are, but we don’t know to what extent they are. There’s a little bit of questioning, when someone returns with a second infection, whether it is the same, prolonged infection, or something…, What else should people know about coronavirus variants?, “Getting answers to these questions, in the previous world we lived in, took years of research and we’re trying to fast track all of this. So sometimes we think we know the right answer and it…
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