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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded UMass Boston a two-year $300,000 ADVANCE Catalyst grant to conduct a self-assessment regarding gender and racial equity among science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) faculty at UMass Boston, with the ultimate goal of developing a Five-Year Strategic Plan for STEM Faculty Equity.

Assistant Professor of Nursing Lisa Sundean, PhD, RN has received the Excellence in Policy Award from Nursing Outlook, the journal of the American Academy of Nursing.
 
Sundean’s article,  was published in 2017. This very competitive award is chosen from all articles in the journal for that particular year. The decision is made by a panel of experts, and there is no nomination process.
 

The Office of the Provost recently announced the winners of the Office of Undergraduate Research’s 2019 Fall Stipend Initiative. The overall quality of all the applications demonstrated the high level of undergraduate research conducted on our campus. Twenty-eight faculty members volunteered to review proposals and countless more continue to serve as mentors.

This year’s winners are:

Devin Cannistraro (Computer & Information Science), Supervisor: Professor Iren Valova - “Improving the Learning Accuracy of Convolutional Neural Networks”

A report in the journal , published by the American Society for Microbiology, describes a prototype vaccine candidate for Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the bacterium that causes gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted infection that affects men and women. Untreated, gonorrhea can cause infertility in women.

UMass Law ranked among the nation’s top 41 law schools for privacy law according to the International Association of Privacy Professionals. The IAPP published its first-ever ranking of privacy education in U.S. law schools based on its national review of law school curricula. UMass Law appeared in Tier 2, along with Harvard, Boston College, Boston University, and 26 other law schools, based on its Information Privacy Law course, an online course offered each summer.

A healthy school climate and a coordinated strategy for improving social and emotional learning reduce behavior problems among students and improve educational outcomes, researcher  told educators at the ’s annual Panasuk Symposium.

AMHERST, Mass. – In Nature, says Greg Grason at the ����ӰԺ Amherst, “Nobody except physics and geometry” tells molecules how to organize into the types of complex soft crystals that form in butterfly wings, for example, allowing them to selectively reflect different wavelengths of light. He and other materials scientists who study such self-assembling structures are often fascinated and inspired by them, he adds, “and we’re starting to learn how and why they are spontaneously form way they do.”

AMHERST, Mass. – In a first national-scale analysis, ecologists at the ����ӰԺ Amherst, with colleagues at the University of Colorado-Boulder, report that across the United States, invasive grasses can double the number of fires.

UMass Boston’s women’s soccer team won their first Little East Conference regular season title since 2014 over the weekend, and now they have the No. 1 seed in the conference tournament that begins this week. The No. 1 Beacons will host the winner of Tuesday’s game between No. 4 Eastern Connecticut State University and No. 5 Plymouth State University on Thursday night at 7 p.m.

The ����ӰԺ Department of Public Health’s Bureau of Substance Addiction Services has awarded UMass Boston’s  (INENAS) a contract for over $600,000 to provide outreach and activities in the Native American community for those affected by alcohol and opioid misuse.