Second-year School of Medicine student Filia Van Dessel has been named a Paul Ambrose Scholar by the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research. Van Dessel will use the award to improve access to recreational and physical activity opportunities for youth with disabilities on Martha鈥檚 Vineyard. The project builds on the population health clerkship she completed with other students from the School of Medicine and the Graduate School of Nursing.
Billerica Memorial High School junior Tej Patel was the winner of the 14th Annual Central 橙子影院 Brain Bee held at UMass Medical School on Saturday, Feb. 1. Hosted by the UMMS Department of Psychiatry and NeuroNexus Institute, the Brain Bee is a competition designed to encourage students to pursue careers in the neurosciences.
In an emotional ceremony before his family, colleagues and friends, C. Leon Pierce was sworn in as director of public safety and chief of police at UMass Medical School on Thursday, Feb. 6. Two of his daughters, Gabrielle and Sage Pierce, sang the National Anthem, while the third, Makenzie Pierce, fulfilled the honor of pinning on his new badge. Jennifer Pierce, his wife, was close by.
Chief Pierce was appointed to the top post last month, upon the retirement of John Luippold.
A business incubator working to improve the lives of patients with heart, lung, blood and sleep disorders is expanding its reach to the next generation of biotech and medical device entrepreneurs.
The UMass Worcester Prevention Research Center at UMass Medical School has been awarded a $3.75 million, five-year grant renewal from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. The center, co-led by Stephenie Lemon, PhD, and Milagros Rosal, PhD, has been part of the nationwide Prevention Research Center consortium since 2009.
Coburn Hall, UMass Lowell鈥檚 oldest and most iconic building, is filled with history. But for decades, one of its most colorful chapters has been hidden from sight 鈥 covered by a thick curtain and two coats of paint.
No longer.
As part of Coburn鈥檚 $47 million top-to-bottom renovation and expansion, art conservators have pulled back that curtain, stripped away the paint and revealed the WPA-era murals that cover an entire wall of the building鈥檚 former ballroom.
Their mission was Mars. But for two days in January, 25 grade-school students from South Korea landed at UMass Lowell, in the hands of and four of her student aides.
Oda, an assistant teaching professor who specializes in the places where art and technology meet, led the Korean students from Seoul-based Cheongwon Elementary School in sessions of 3D sculpting and work in virtual reality labs.
The challenge to students in Assoc. Prof. 鈥檚 course on climate change was to come up with ways to reduce the university community鈥檚 carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 10,000 pounds over the span of 10 weeks.
The student team of Lena Dziechowski, Megha Sudheendra and Brittany Segill came up with a way to reduce five times those emissions in half the time.
Each week, Asst. Teaching Prof. gives students in her Chemistry II class a quiz to make sure they鈥檙e grasping complex topics such as thermodynamics, kinetics and chemical equilibrium.
With up to 150 students spread over several sections of the course, grading the weekly quizzes and returning them to students in a timely manner is no small task.
The Office of Undergraduate Research recently announced the winners of the 2019 Winter grants.
The winners include:
Aleksey Bourgoun, Mechanical Engineering - Supervisor: Professor Hangjian Ling
- Title: 鈥淎n experimental study of the life-time of underwater super-hydrophobic surfaces鈥
Stefan Bruendl, Computer & Information Science - Supervisor: Professor Hua Fang
- Title: 鈥淩esearching 60 GHz communication with USRP machines鈥
Sophia Costa, Chemistry & Biochemistry - Supervisor: Professor Shuowei Cai