Raeann LeBlanc has been named the Seedworks Endowed Clinical Assistant Professor for Social Justice in the College of Nursing. LeBlanc has been teaching both graduates and undergraduates at UMass Amherst since 2011. Her research addresses health disparities in advanced care planning and the effect of social networks on self-care among older adults.
During his sophomore year of college, UMass Amherst political science professor Paul Musgrave awoke to a changed world.
"I remember a Tuesday morning I was sleeping in because I didn't have any early classes, and my suitemate kept knocking on the door, saying 'You need to come see the TV right now.'"
The 9/11 attacks that day, along with the Bush v. Gore decision and the run-up to war in Iraq, were central to Musgrave's decision to pursue a career devoted to making sense of the political tumult he was witnessing.
AMHERST, Mass. 鈥 Zeolites crystals, used among other things for refining petroleum to gasoline and biomass into biofuels, are the most-used catalysts by weight on the planet, and discovering mechanisms of how they form has been of intense interest to the chemical industry and related researchers, say chemist Scott Auerbach and colleagues at the 橙子影院 Amherst. They hope their advance on a new way to understand zeolite structure and vibrations leads to new, tailor-made zeolites for use in sophisticated new applications.
The New England College Personnel Association (NECPA) has named higher education Ph.D. student and recent graduate of the higher education master's program, .
AMHERST, Mass. 鈥 In a new paper, a team of evolutionary biologists and geneticists led by senior author associate professor Ana Caicedo, with first author Hamid Razifard at the 橙子影院 Amherst, and others, report that they have identified missing links in the tomato鈥檚 evolution from a wild blueberry-sized fruit in South America to the larger modern tomato of today.
Evolutionary cell biologist Lillian Fritz-Laylin, biology, recently was granted a three-year, $300,000 to support her research on the pathogenesis of the brain-eating amoeba Naegleria fowleri. The amoeba gets inside swimmers鈥 noses, crawls up the olfactory nerve and into the brain where they destroy tissue.
"DownBeat" magazine, the top publication for "jazz, blues, and beyond," has included a recent recording by UMass associate professor of music Felipe Salles on their list of their 100 top-rated albums for 2019.
鈥淭he Lullaby Project and Other Works for Large Ensemble,鈥 which was actually released in late 2018, was inspired by traditional Brazilian lullabies, and featured the debut of the Felipe Salles Interconnections Ensemble, an 18-piece jazz orchestra that combines Brazilian, Latin-American and classical influences.
Three kinesiology students received awards and scholarships during the annual New England Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine (NEACSM) Fall Conference held in Providence, Rhode Island this past November.
Doctoral student Robert Marcotte won the NEACSM Lawrence E. Armstrong Minority Scholarship, which is awarded to support and encourage professional development and academic excellence in minority students in the New England region.
The UMass Medical School community is mourning the loss of James Barry Hanshaw, MD, professor, dean emeritus and founding chair of the UMass Medical School Department of Pediatrics, who died Dec. 19, at age 90, in his home in Boylston.
Dr. Hanshaw served UMass Medical School in numerous capacities, including chair of pediatrics from 1975 to 1985, interim vice chancellor and academic dean from 1985 to 1986, interim chancellor in 1987, and dean and provost from 1986 to1989.
Two of UMass Boston's centers are offering opportunities for research funding for faculty members who are focused on climate change or labor-related themes.