Assistant professor Omar Abdelrahman, of the department of chemical engineering, has received a five-year, $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career Development (CAREER)…
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UMass Medical School will invest David McManus, MD, and Brian Lewis, PhD, into endowed chairs. The University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees voted at its April meeting to approve naming Dr.…
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The COVID-19 pandemic has changed many things about how health care is delivered. Indeed, it has produced many innovations that show significant promise. David Cave, MD, PhD Gastroenterology…
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AMHERST, Mass. – Three University of Massachusetts Amherst juniors in the Commonwealth Honors College have been awarded a prestigious Goldwater Scholarship from the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and…, Nicholas Sbalbi, of West Springfield, Mass.; , Meredith Stone , of Wakefield, R.I.; and , Renos Zabounidis, of Sharon, Mass., will receive scholarships to cover tuition, mandatory fees, books and room and board. The three UMass students were among 1,256 students from across the nation to receive Goldwater…
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(From left) Lisa Wong, Rachael Rollins, Joanne Dunn, and Gladys Vega The Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy (CWPPP) at UMass Boston has announced the selection of its third cohort of …, Rachael Rollins, ; former Executive Director of the North American Indian Center of Boston , Joanne Dunn, ; Executive Director of the Chelsea Collaborative , Gladys Vega, ; and Winchester Town Manager and former Mayor of Fitchburg , Lisa Wong, . The fellows will give public lectures, mentor students in CWPPP’s Gender, Leadership, and Public Policy Program (GLPP), and share their papers and leadership narratives and lessons, which will be…, Biographical Details of the Fellows, Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins, is the chief law enforcement official for Boston, Chelsea, Revere, and Winthrop, Massachusetts, and oversees an office of approximately 300 people handling approximately 35,000 new cases each year.…, Joanne Dunn, retired as executive director for the North American Indian Center of Boston (NAICOB) in August 2016. The NAICOB is the successor to the Boston Indian Council (BIC), the first and oldest urban…, Gladys Vega, has dedicated 30 years of service to the City of Chelsea and the Chelsea Collaborative, which she joined in 1990 - just two years after its founding. Vega has worked as an organizer and an advocate…, Lisa Wong, became the town manager of Winchester in November 2018. Wong served four terms as mayor of Fitchburg and received recognition for her work on issues including conservation, urban education, public…
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UMass Boston junior Sarah True has received the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship . This is the third year in a row that UMass Boston students have been named Goldwater Scholars; four…
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UMass Dartmouth CVPA Professor Rebecca Hutchinson (Art & Design) is being featured in the groundbreaking exhibition Particle & Wave: PaperClay Illuminated . This is the largest and first…
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PITTSBURGH –, University of Massachusetts hockey controlled play from start to finish and rolled to a 5-0 shutout of St. Cloud State to capture the 2021 Division I Men's Hockey NCAA Championship on Saturday night…
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When Fania Davis was 15 and growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, she lost two close friends in the September 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church that killed four young Black girls and…
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Public Health Prof. Li-Wenjun Wenjun Li works with federal agencies and hospital systems to research the resources that contribute to healthy aging – and how access to those resources is affected…, Q: What is the focus of your aging research?, A:, My passion always goes to public health and population health, using epidemiological, geographic and quantitative approaches. I work primarily with state and federal agencies to analyze data about…, Q: What have you learned so far?, A:, My most important finding is that the living environment plays a very important role in the likelihood of engaging in healthy behaviors, having chronic conditions and being injured or disabled. A…, Q: Both the social and physical living environments implicate race and socioeconomic status. How does your research address that?, A:, Socioeconomic disparities in access to services is tremendous, so we work with public health agencies to figure out the most effective ways for them to address those gaps. Typically, we analyze…, Q: What other major projects are you working on now?, A:, We are assisting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors in developing a prototype for a national system to determine the prevalence…, Q: How are students involved in your research?, A:, In Worcester, our lab has had a long tradition of hosting internship programs for high school students, undergraduates, graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. Over the past 15 years, we’ve…
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