Bill Owens. Image by: Courtesy of the Owens family Bill Owens, the first Black State Senator to serve in Massachusetts’ upper chamber and a former member of the UMass Boston William Monroe Trotter…
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Aerial image of East Boston The Sustainable Solutions Lab at UMass Boston has released new research exploring the question of what is necessary for true community and climate resilience in East…, Patricio Belloy, , PhD candidate in the Department of Public Policy and Public Affairs; , Antonio Raciti, , assistant professor of community planning and ecological design in the School for the Environment; , Katsyris Rivera-Kientz, , PhD candidate in the College of Liberal Arts; and , Rebecca Herst, , director of the Sustainable Solutions Lab. East Boston is very vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, particularly flooding. Some of the projects the City of Boston would like to advance in…
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Natalicia Tracey Natalicia Tracy’s career speaks for itself. A double Beacon who went on to earn her PhD, become a UMass Boston professor, and lead Boston’s Brazilian Worker Center as executive…
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Katherine A. Fitzgerald, PhD, has been named the 2022 recipient of the American Association of Immunologists - Thermo Fisher Meritorious Career Award. The award, given by the AAI, recognizes a mid-…
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Sociology Assistant Professor Teresa Gonzales standing under an arch of flowers Sociology page Sociology Asst. Prof. Gonzales-Teresa Teresa Gonzales grew up in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood, a…
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Manning School of Business students, from left, Lena Astarjian, Zachary Mizioch, Christopher Sheng, Nicole Resendes and Philecia Smith-Rise visit MFS Investment Management's headquarters in Boston…, ‘Opened My Eyes’, Like so many co-op and internship programs, MFS co-ops have been working remotely during the pandemic. But that didn’t dampen the experience for the latest crop of UML students. “Being remote has…, New Perspectives, When Resendes, a senior from Arlington, Massachusetts, started looking for marketing opportunities as part of the co-op program’s Co-op Course Descriptions professional development seminar last…
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Five video essays designed and produced by Barbara Zecchi, director of film studies at UMass Amherst, made it into the “ Best Video Essays of 2021 ” by Sight & Sound, the prestigious monthly film…
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Shlomit Schaal, MD, PhD, has been elected by the Association of University Professors of Ophthalmology to its Board of Trustees. Her three-year term will begin April 1. Shlomit Schaal, MD, PhD “I…
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Yang Wang, MD, PhD, professor of medicine and deputy director of product discovery at MassBiologics of UMass Chan Medical School , leads a team of scientists working to discover and develop antibody…
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UMass Law's Arc of Justice Atrium As the spring semester begins, UMass Law reflects on the exciting accomplishments of the past year for the law school, its students, and faculty., UMass Law, UMass Law opened the 2021-2022 academic year with record enrollment while the 1L class holds the highest median LSAT score and undergraduate GPAs in the school’s history. Selected from a record…, Our students, Emily Dillan and Jennifer White, both JD candidates ’23, were selected as the seventh and eighth UMass Law Rappaport Center Fellows, a highly prestigious public policy summer fellowship. Emily Dillan…, Our community, For the fourth consecutive year, the Equal Justice Coalition presented UMass Law with the Highest Participation for a Law School Award for its efforts to increase civil legal aid. The Bristol County…
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