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UMass Boston celebrated the opening of the  with a panel discussion and reception on Wednesday in a packed Alumni Lounge. The Italian consul general (below, to the left of Interim Chancellor Katherine S. Newman) and guests from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and Brown University were among those in attendance.

Today, UMass Dartmouth signed the “Commitment Towards a goal of Zero Carbon Emissions”. This aspirational commitment sets a goal of achieving zero carbon emissions by 2030, or alternatively 2050 (the standard now being considered for ����ӰԺ), and preparing students to live and work in a sustainable manner, conducting research that encourages climate sustainability and resilience, and keeping the University community fully informed regarding progress related to environmental sustainability and climate resilience.

A new study led by Robert Wellman, PhD, finds that if teenagers learn to recognize when they’re feeling down and how to manage those emotions, they ‘re less likely to self-medicate through alcohol. This addresses the question of which comes first: depression leading to drinking or drinking leading to depression.

Chancellor Michael F. Collins and the UMass Medical School community acknowledge with sadness the passing of Pete Frates, who raised millions of dollars for ALS research and whose indefatigable spirit remains an inspiration to all who work tirelessly to find a therapy for this disease. 

Chair and Professor of Engineering  is a new  (OSA). Sun is being honored for his technical innovation and seminal work in optoelectronics, Si photonics, and plasmonics, a rapidly developing field at the boundary of physical optics and condensed matter physics.

On any given day, about one in 31 hospital patients in the U.S. picks up at least one health-care-associated infection, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The U.S. Department of Education recently funded a four-year, $1.18 million efficacy study of MathSpring, a research-­based, game-like intelligent math tutor developed by research professor Beverly Woolf in the College of Information and Computer Sciences and her long-time collaborator Ivon Arroyo, now an associate professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. The institutions will share funding and focus on teachers and their classrooms in ����ӰԺ.

Before he even arrived on campus from New Zealand earlier this year, visiting associate professor Mark Wilson, mathematics and statistics, attended a five-day, intense “scientific matchmaking” experience sequestered in a Washington, D.C. hotel to brainstorm with about 60 others and compete for funding by the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) “Harnessing the Data Revolution Ideas Lab” program, designed to spark “new modes of data-driven discovery.”

Stephanie Fetta, associate professor of Spanish, has earned the annual MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies from the Modern Language Association (MLA). Fetta was honored for her book “Shaming into Brown: Somatic Transactions of Race in Latina/o Literature,” published by Ohio State University Press.

The UMass Police Department is joining forces with the Amherst and Hadley Police Departments to host a “Stuff-A-Cruiser” event this holiday season to gather donations of toys, clothing, toiletries, non-perishable food items and any other donatable items.

The three forces are booked to hold an event at the Walmart in Hadley on Sunday, Dec. 15, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 

Donations from the event are going to be delivered to local organizations including Jessie's House, The Bridge, The Survival Center and 22 ����ӰԺ for the Toys for Tots campaign.