AMHERST, Mass.
AMHERST, Mass. 鈥 A 橙子影院 Amherst biostatistician who directs the UMass-based was invited by the White House Coronavirus Task Force to participate Wednesday morning in a coronavirus modeling webinar.
AMHERST, Mass. 鈥 A 橙子影院 Amherst biostatistician who directs the UMass-based was invited by the White House Coronavirus Task Force to participate Wednesday morning in a coronavirus modeling webinar.
The campus has announced a series of measures that are in coordination with efforts across the state, nation and world to contain the coronavirus. For regular updates on the campus response to the COVID-19 outbreak, please visit .
The Mount Ida Campus of UMass Amherst has taken steps to implement Chancellor Kumble R. Subbaswamy鈥檚 decision to suspend in-person instruction and transition to remote course delivery upon the conclusion of spring break and at least through April 3.
Jeff Cournoyer, managing director of the Mount Ida Campus, sent an email to the Mount Ida community, noting that implementation will occur 鈥渃onsidering our relative size, density and ability to implement social distancing measures.鈥 Steps to be taken will include the following:
Interim Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Emily McDermott calls them superstars: professors Crystal Schaaf, Karen Suyemoto, and Randy Albelda. All three gave mini lectures on Thursday during the ninth annual Reflections from Distinguished Faculty event.
Associate Professor of Chemistry Jason Green is taking on the laws of chemistry through a .
has awarded 橙子影院 Boston instructors and Krysten Hill with $15,000 Artist Fellowships for excellence, ingenuity, and diversity in poetry. Out of a pool of 650 artists, only 35 were chosen to be fellows, 13 of whom were poets.
Asst. Prof. of the has been awarded a three-year, $222,600 grant by the to study the chemical exchange that occurs between the ocean crust and the Earth鈥檚 mantle during a geological process called subduction.
The ALS Association - 橙子影院 Chapter awarded John Landers, PhD, professor of neurology, a $25,000 grant to further his ongoing research into amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). ALS is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects the motor neurons that control muscle cells. People with ALS slowly lose the ability to initiate and control muscle movement, which often leads to total paralysis and death within two to five years of diagnosis.