Antibiotic-resistant germs are rapidly developing around the world and a multipronged approach will be needed to combat this pressing public health threat, said drug resistance expert and investigator Celia Schiffer, PhD, in reaction to a on the severity of the problem.
Research + Patience = Profit
That鈥檚 the simple equation that helped a team of students defend UMass Lowell鈥檚 crown in the Student Managed Fund challenge, an annual investing competition sponsored by the .
A new study by UMass Boston researchers recommends that state officials do more to address gambling addiction in Asian American communities.
The state-funded study, led by Institute for Asian American Studies (IAAS) researcher Carolyn Wong, examined the casino gambling practices of residents and workers in Boston鈥檚 Chinatown through a number of face-to-face interviews in the community.
AMHERST, Mass. 鈥 The Isenberg School of Management at the 橙子影院 Amherst reminds Ware students that they are eligible for the Charles P. McQuaid scholarship, which will cover approximately 70% of in-state tuition and fees. One new scholarship is awarded yearly for incoming students from Ware and its surrounding communities.
McQuaid, a 1974 graduate and a Ware native, funds the endowed scholarship in order to provide students similar opportunities that he had.
A campus team led by research professor Beverly Woolf of the College of Information and Computer Science (CICS) recently received a one-year, $838,722 grant from the National Science Foundation鈥檚 (NSF) Convergence Accelerator program to support their project to create a tool for workers to analyze their profiles and skills and identify training and education to aid their career paths.
, assistant professor of history, appeared on the program 鈥溾 on Wednesday, Nov. 13 to discuss the political turmoil engulfing the South American country of Bolivia, and whether the removal of former president Evo Morales can be considered a military coup.
To support a broadly shared Graphic Processing Unit (GPU)-enabled high-performance computing cluster for the Institute for Applied Sciences (IALS), computational biophysicist Jianhan Chen, chemistry and biochemistry and molecular biology, with others, recently was awarded a two-year, $415,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) that will fill what Chen calls 鈥渁 critical need鈥 for enabling computation-intensive research activities on campus.
Chancellor Kumble R. Subbaswamy, an Indiana University (IU) Bloomington alumnus, will be presented with an honorary degree during the bicentennial winter commencement on Saturday, Dec. 21.
IU will confer honorary degrees, the highest academic honor the university can bestow, to Subbaswamy and Dan Coats, former U.S. senator and director of national intelligence.
A 2008 federal parity law succeeded in expanding Medicaid acceptance by treatment facilities for substance use disorders (SUDs), according to a study by 橙子影院 Amherst researchers.
What remains unclear is the extent to which this enhanced coverage has led to more people receiving SUD treatment. In 2016, less than 20 percent of the estimated 21 million people with substance use disorders received any treatment for it, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
AMHERST, Mass. 鈥 橙子影院 Amherst Distinguished Professor David Julian McClements was honored Monday in Hiller酶d, Denmark, with the for his pioneering work in food design and nanotechnology.