University of Massachusetts campuses are deploying the energy, expertise, and ingenuity of students, faculty and staff in support of the Commonwealth’s COVID-19 vaccination effort. After 10 months…, Vaccination clinics, The UMass Amherst vaccination clinic, launched January 11, is run by the university’s Public Health Promotion Center (PHPC) and has vaccinated thousands of people. The Mount Ida Campus of UMass…, , has partnered with the Holtzman Medical Group to launch a COVID-19 vaccine clinic at its Newton site. The clinic, which is currently scheduled to be open on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays through…, Research, Using RNA as the basis for current therapies (including the first two COVID-19 vaccines, from Pfizer and Moderna) dates back to 1998 with research by Craig Mello at UMass Medical School and his…, Community outreach, UMass Medical School faculty who are expert in community-engaged research are organizing and hosting a dozen virtual community forums to meet with select, multilingual, vulnerable populations in…
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Last spring, after COVID-19 shut down the campus, Education landing page education Ph.D. student Djurabaeva-Sharifa Sharifa Djurabaeva was feeling isolated. She had finished all of her classes…
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What do successful rock 'n’ roll bands have in common with hard-charging entrepreneurs who reach the top echelons of business? A willingness to fail, to regroup and to try again, said Greg Harris,…
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The U.S. faces one of the most consequential public health campaigns in history right now: to vaccinate the population against COVID-19 and, especially, to get shots into the arms of people who…, What a vaccine corps looks like, The problem of getting people vaccinated quickly isn’t just about supply – it’s also about having enough people to carry out vaccinations, particularly in hard-to-reach communities. If quickly…, Reaching underserved communities – including their own, In particular, a large, well-organized vaccine corps could play a crucial role in reaching out to communities that are underserved, overlooked or hard to reach. Corps members could staff phone banks…, The potential for scaling up, The U.S. has a long history of creating health corps. After the Sept. 11 attacks, the federal government launched the volunteer Medical Reserve Corps to mobilize current and former medical…
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Worcester HIV Vaccine, a biotechnology company dedicated to the development of a vaccine to prevent HIV infections around the world, has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration…
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Reflecting on his 30-year career in the pharmaceutical industry, Jerry St. Peter ’89 sees a direct connection between his UMass Lowell experience and his success. “When I look back on my time at the…
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Kevin Stokesbury, Professor of Fisheries Oceanography at UMass Dartmouth’s School for Marine Science & Technology (SMAST), has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on the…, About Dr. Kevin Stokesbury, Kevin Stokesbury earned his PhD in Marine Ecology at the Universite Laval in 1994. He joined SMAST as a faculty member in 2000 and has served as chair for the Department of Fisheries Oceanography.…
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AMHERST, Mass. – To build a universal quantum computer from fragile quantum components, effective implementation of quantum error correction (QEC) is an essential requirement and a central challenge…
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The Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center at UMass Medical School has helped launch a new program that helps families experiencing psychiatric emergencies as confinement at home and loss of outside supports…
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A group of students in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences is working to represent and promote inclusion and diversity in higher education. The GSBS Diversity Interest Group is committed…
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