UMass Boston has a new dedicated space for the humanities on campus. Located on the 8th floor of Healey Library, the Humanities Hub is a flexible space that can serve as a classroom, meeting space, or work space for students and faculty engaged in humanities-based events and activities.
A capacity crowd of students, faculty, and staff celebrated UMass Boston鈥檚 love for the humanities with a Valentine鈥檚 Day-themed launch on February 13.
When "Toy Story 4" won an Oscar for Best Animated Feature at the Academy Awards ceremony in February, a lot of folks from Disney and Pixar shared a piece of its success, insists UML alum Rachael Bigelow '11.
The Research Career and Writing Group, known as the 鈥淜 Club鈥 at UMass Medical School, helps junior investigators obtain early career training grants known as K awards to advance their research. According to the National Institutes of Health, K awards prepare postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty to compete for major grant support and establish independent research programs. More than 80 percent of K Club participants who have applied for these research career awards have received funding from a variety of sources.
Depletion of a particular type of innate immune cell is the likely source of chronic inflammation in people living with HIV-1, according to by a team lead by scientist Jeremy Luban, MD. The loss of innate lymphoid cells (ILC) may explain why people living with HIV-1 have increased rates of cardiovascular, liver, kidney and neurological disease associated with chronic inflammation, despite being on antiretroviral therapy.
University Relations (UR) has announced the formation of a new Content Team, led by Associate Vice Chancellor Nancy Buffone. Drawing on her editorial experience and broad perspective of campus, Buffone will assemble a staff tasked with helping to tell the UMass story by creating engaging content to be featured on the campus homepage, the Flagship newsletter and other UR platforms.
The 橙子影院 family has lost one of its most illustrious and loyal members with the passing of Jack Welch, who graduated from UMass Amherst in 1957 and came to be recognized as the business world鈥檚 most creative and hard-charging CEO. In addition to the success he enjoyed as chairman and chief executive officer of General Electric, Mr.
Mary Andrianopoulos, associate professor of communication disorders, has received a $1.25 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to continue her long-term work on delivering speech-language interventions to students with autism through applied technologies. Those technologies include telehealth service delivery models and computer-based instruction.
The 鈥檚 Center for Clinical Education and Research (CCER) has long given UMass Boston students an advantage as they embark on clinicals and paid nursing jobs. With its move to the first floor of the Quinn Administration Building this semester, the CCER has gone from about 3,000 square feet to just over 10,000, with even more amenities that prepare our students for the workforce.
The UMass Dartmouth Portuguese Department, Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives, and School of Education in the UMass Dartmouth College of Arts & Sciences hosted a delegation of graduate Education students from the University of the Azores. The students were joined by their instructor Gra莽a Castanha and the poet Manuela Bulc茫o. They offered a workshop entitled, 鈥淭eaching Portuguese through Universal Design for Learning and Happiness鈥. The event, which took place on Friday, 21 February 2020 from 1 p.m.
Anna Maria Siega-Riz, dean of the School of Public Health and Health Sciences and professor in the departments of nutrition and biostatistics and epidemiology, received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of North Carolina (UNC) department of nutrition at an event held in her honor on Friday, Jan. 17. A former professor and associate dean at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, Siega-Riz earned a bachelor鈥檚 degree in public health from UNC, a master鈥檚 degree in food and nutrition from UNC-Greensboro and a doctoral degree in nutrition and epidemiology from UNC.