AMHERST, Mass. 鈥 An analysis of policy research on nearly 50 years of school vaccine mandates has found that while vaccine requirements are commonly considered to have made a major, if not essential, contribution to vaccine coverage in the United States, the causal relations between mandates and population vaccination remains unclear. The findings were published online this week by the Canadian Medical Association Journal鈥檚 .
AMHERST, Mass. 鈥 Foods fried in vegetable oil are popular worldwide, but research about the health effects of this cooking technique has been largely inconclusive and focused on healthy people. For the first time, UMass Amherst food scientists set out to examine the impact of frying oil consumption on inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and colon cancer, using animal models.
AMHERST, Mass. 鈥 A recent study by economists at the 橙子影院 Amherst has 鈥 for the first time 鈥 found a link between exposure to air pollution during early childhood with the development of arthritis later in adult life.
UMass Amherst ranks No. 65 nationally and 159th worldwide according to the 2019-20 evaluation of higher education institutions by the (CWUR).
The rankings place UMass Amherst among the top 0.8 percent of universities worldwide in a survey that assessed more than 20,000 universities. The methodology, according to CWUR, focuses on quality of education, alumni employment, quality of faculty and research performance. Equal emphasis is placed on the learning environment and research.
Julie Bowditch, advancement officer for community fundraising at UMass Medical School and UMass Memorial Medical Center, has been named one of the Worcester Business Journal鈥檚 40 Under Forty Class of 2019.
Eighth grader Nate wants to talk about planets. But his teacher, a freshman in UMass Boston鈥檚 , is trying to get through a class activity about social awareness. She tells him that maybe they can talk about planets once this activity is over. A short time later, another Honors College freshman teaching the class notices that Nate isn鈥檛 participating.
鈥淗ey, Nate, do you have any thoughts about this?鈥 the second freshman asks.
鈥淚 do not get this. I don鈥檛 get this. I don鈥檛 know what鈥檚 happening,鈥 Nate says.
Two UMass Boston PhD candidates are among the 69 students who will have fellowships in Washington, D.C., in 2020 through the . Sean McNally and Brianna Shaughnessy will find out in the fall if they鈥檝e been paired with a host in the legislative or executive office.
Amherst, Mass. 鈥 Kalpen Trivedi, associate provost and director of the International Programs Office at the 橙子影院 Amherst has been awarded a Presidential Fellowship by the Association of International Education Administration (AIEA).
The 橙子影院 School of Law at UMass Dartmouth begins its academic year today with 113 new students, a 21.5 percent increase over last year, bringing total enrollment of the Commonwealth鈥檚 only public law school to 279 students.
For the second year in a row, UMass Law applications grew by more than 20 percent, far exceeding the national average of minus 1.5 percent this year and plus 8.6 percent in 2018. Only nine of the 200-plus law schools in the United States experienced a 20 percent increase in applications this year.