Since its much-anticipated opening three years ago, the Cryo Electron Microscopy Core Facility at UMass Medical School has trained hundreds of scientists from the region's research universities; analyzed thousands of samples from academic and commercial labs around the country; and become a resource for faculty, postdocs and students on campus. Now the facility is expanding with new equipment, new users and a broader vision for how it can advance biomedical research underway at UMMS and beyond.
On November 1, UMass Dartmouth will host the Accelerating the Southeastern 橙子影院 Marine Science and Technology Corridor: An Industry, Academia, and Government Collaboration symposium. This follows the highly successful 2018 symposium: Catching the Next Wave: Building the Blue Economy through Innovation and Collaboration.
The event will begin at 8 a.m. on November 1 in the Stoico/FIRSTFED Grand Reading Room, Claire T. Carney Library located on the main campus at 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA.
AMHERST, Mass. 鈥 Joseph C. Bardin, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the 橙子影院 Amherst, is a member of the multi-disciplinary research team that has published a new paper in the journal that says Google, using a quantum computer, has achieved a breakthrough by performing a task that isn鈥檛 possible with traditional computers.
AMHERST, Mass. 鈥 While government employment is commonly believed to be controlled by neutral, formal pay structures, new research from a team of researchers led by 橙子影院 Amherst sociologist Laurel Smith-Doerr has found that in a number of science-based federal agencies, gaps and differential implementation in current standardization schemes create gendered outcomes. The research indicates that the resulting pay gaps between men and women at these agencies can also be associated with the cultural gender frames of the agencies鈥 field of research.
AMHERST, Mass. 鈥 For the fifth consecutive year, the 橙子影院 Amherst has been named to the Princeton Review鈥檚 list of Top 50 Green Colleges.
The list is included in the new 2019 edition of 鈥溾 released online Oct. 22. Ranked No. 30 this year out of the 413 schools profiled, UMass Amherst was also among the Top 50 in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018.
The U.S. Department of Education鈥檚 Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services has awarded faculty members in UMass Boston鈥檚 Curriculum and Instruction and Counseling and School Psychology departments a five-year $1.1 million grant to prepare master鈥檚-level students to serve infants, toddlers, and preschool-age children with disabilities and their families.
UMass Boston's Division of Enrollment Management welcomed 753 students to campus this past Saturday, October 19 for Open House. These prospective Beacons were accompanied by 1,025 guests, including their parents, siblings, and friends 鈥 making a grand total of 1,778 visitors.
Representatives from across the university shared information about UMass Boston鈥檚 academics, student life, financial aid, athletics, housing opportunities, and the application process.
The 橙子影院 Board of Higher Education approved a Bachelor of Science in Interior Architecture and Design (IAD) at UMass Dartmouth yesterday, establishing the only accredited program of its kind at a public university in New England. The program had previously been approved by the UMass Board of Trustees.
First-year student Michaela Wakefield enrolled at UML this fall as a major because she had become passionate about political activism in high school.
Wakefield thought she wanted to become a lawyer, but she wanted to be sure. So she also signed up for the new, one-credit Career Exploration Seminar offered by the (FAHSS).
Two young children with Tay-Sachs disease were treated safely at UMass Memorial Medical Center with a gene therapy developed at UMass Medical School and, in one case, the child's condition has stabilized, according to an interview published by with Terence R. Flotte, MD.