As part of the university’s commitment to changing the campus climate by working to prevent and correct sexual violence, harassment and assault; and in conjunction with the university’s leadership and membership on the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine’s (NASEM) Action Collaborative on Preventing Sexual Harassment in Higher Education, Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy has created a UMass Task Force on Sexual Harassment and Assault.
Selected from more than 400 applications, UMass Boston is one of the 19 organizations to receive a , a national nonprofit dedicated to providing communities and advocates the resources to advance safe, accessible, and enjoyable places to walk and be physically active for all.
AMHERST, Mass. – Results of a new epidemiological analysis of more than 108,000 women observed a lower risk of early menopause among women who had at least one pregnancy lasting at least six months and among those who had breastfed their infants. Further, risk was lowest among those who breastfed exclusively. The work is by first author and Ph.D. student Christine Langton, with her advisor Elizabeth Bertone-Johnson at the ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº Amherst’s School of Public Health and Health Sciences.
Dear UMassD Community,
Welcome back to another exciting semester at UMass Dartmouth. I hope you were able to recharge during the winter break and spend time with family and friends.
Before we get too far into 2020, it is worth noting the . Every one of you made this possible and I am proud of all that you have done to make our university an amazing place to live, learn, and grow.
Implicit biases are unconscious attitudes that individuals hold about other people based on racial, social and other stereotypes. Implicit bias is important in health care because it can affect how a provider treats a patient. In a study published in , UMass Medical School students found that trainees value becoming aware of their own implicit biases as they prepare to practice medicine.
UMass Medical School is participating in on Thursday, Jan. 30, the first day dedicated to the eradication of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). NTDs are a group of ancient diseases, including intestinal worms, river blindness, guinea worm and trachoma, that threaten 1.6 billion people living in the poorest and most marginalized communities worldwide.
The Jake Kennedy ALS Fund, launched last month by Jake and Sparky Kennedy, supports research at UMass Medical School to find a cure for ALS. A Jan. 20 column by Kevin Cullen details the man behind the fund, recently diagnosed with ALS, and the kindness he and his wife have shown since launching Christmas in the City 30 years ago.
Four teams of UMass Medical School students have been awarded Martin Luther King Jr. Semester of Service Awards to implement community service programs. They will use the $500 awards to help improve access to cervical cancer screening, train youth in a lifesaving emergency intervention, integrate medical health records into free medical care, and expand tutoring opportunities for high school students.
Five Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning (LARP) students were recently awarded the Jury Prize in the 2020 Edmund N. Bacon Urban Design Awards Student Competition.
The interdisciplinary team of graduate students; Keith Benoit, Kinjal Manish Desai, Tianyi Guan, Christopher Ramage and Peter Wackernagel; was one of four winning teams out of 2500 registered teams from all over the world.
Mathematics professor Andrea R. Nahmod has been named a principal investigator for a Simons Foundation Collaboration in Mathematical and Physical Sciences that will involve leading mathematics and physics researchers in the United States and Europe in a systematic, coordinated study of wave turbulence.
The four-year, $8 million grant with possibility of extension is a collaboration directed by at the Courant Institute at New York University (NYU).