In a Thursday email to the campus community, Chancellor Kumble R. Subbaswamy thanked on-site campus staff for their continued service and faculty for their swift transition to remote learning. He鈥
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An impassioned pitch for a business making sustainable, smart textiles and fabric pots for agricultural and horticultural use captured $7,000 and the top Rist Campus-Wide link this for鈥, THE 2020 $50K IDEA CHALLENGE WINNERS: , The Rist Campus-Wide DifferenceMaker (sponsored by Brian Rist 鈥77), $7,000: MyGrow Fabrix Significant Social Impact, $4,000: YPG Sutherland Innovative Technology Solution (sponsored by Andrew鈥
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The Healey Library 's University Archives and Special Collections (UASC) staff launched a new project: They鈥檙e documenting the UMass Boston community鈥檚 response to the COVID-19 crisis. By鈥, What鈥檚 the story of how this project came to be? , As soon as we started working remotely, the UASC staff started talking about the pressing need to provide a collection portal for our university community during COVID-19. Other university archives鈥, Who is involved in the project and what roles are people taking on?, Interim University Archivist and Curator of Special Collections Andrew Elder and I put together the main elements of the project: the project description and the collection forms in GoogleForms. I鈥, Who should submit materials and what should they submit?, We are interested in collecting materials from all members of our campus community: students, faculty, staff, alumni, administrators, and anyone else connected to the university with a story to tell鈥, Where are you collecting submissions and how long will you continue to collect?, I wrote a blog post called " Documenting the UMass Boston Community鈥檚 Response to COVID-19 " that has a link to the collection forms. We鈥檒l be accepting submissions indefinitely. As long as people鈥, What will you do with the materials you collect? , The materials will become part of the Healey Library鈥檚 permanent digital collections, and if contributors give us permission, they will be shared through our digital collections repository here . We鈥, What impact do you hope this project has on the UMass Boston community?, We are hoping for two outcomes with this project: that the project can serve as an outlet for people during social distancing and while we鈥檙e experiencing a time of great stress and uncertainty, and鈥
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AMHERST, Mass. 鈥揟he Influenza Forecasting Center of Excellence team at the 橙子影院 Amherst is developing a COVID-19 forecast hub by unifying multiple models in an effort to鈥
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The School of Public Policy (SPP) and the Community Scholars Program (CSP) have launched a new partnership that allows students enrolled in CSP to count coursework for the program toward a鈥
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The Center for Teaching & Learning (CTL) has announced the selection of the 2020-21 Lilly Fellows for Teaching Excellence. The eight fellows are:, Peter Beltramo, , chemical engineering, Rosemary Cowell, , psychological and brain sciences, Theodore Eisenman, , landscape architecture and regional planning, Toussaint Losier, , Afro-American studies, Kimberlee P茅rez, , communication, Lynda Pickbourn, , economics, Pari Riahi, , architecture, Malissa Taylor, , Judaic and Near Eastern studies Established in 1986, the Lilly Fellowship for Teaching Excellence has fostered leadership in teaching by training over 240 faculty members, many of whom have gone on鈥
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Tips for health care workers to keep their families safe Click guide to enlarge or download, A doctoral student in the Graduate School of Nursing has developed a list of best practices for health鈥
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BOSTON 鈥 Although the course of the coronavirus crisis may be difficult to predict, , 橙子影院 President Marty Meehan, today said that students and their families can count on the campuses of the UMass system being 鈥渙n duty鈥 this fall. 鈥淯Mass will be there to provide affordable, top-quality higher education --鈥
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Ten UMass students were recently awarded fellowships through the National Science Foundation鈥檚 Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). With an average acceptance rate of 16%, these competitive鈥, Bridget Benner, , graduate student, mechanical engineering, Brooke Burrows, , graduate student, psychology, Stephanie Call, , graduate student, chemical engineering, Seanne Clemente, , graduate student, organismic and evolutionary biology, Jacob Davis, , graduate student, mechanical engineering, Annabelle Flores-Bonilla, , NIH PREP scholar, neuroscience , Rebecca Huber, , graduate student, chemical engineering, Isabella Jaen Maisonet, , undergraduate, chemistry, Rachel Jansen, , undergraduate, biochemistry and molecular biology, Kelly McKeon, , graduate student, geosciences Honorable mention:, Elizabeth Voke, , undergraduate, chemical engineering, Sean van Geldern, , graduate student, physics, Kristyn Robinson, , graduate student, molecular and cellular biology , M猫lise Edwards, , graduate student, neuroscience, Kaitlyn Chhe, , graduate student, chemistry, Craig Brinkerhoff, , graduate student, civil engineering, Cierra Abellara, , graduate student, psychology, Alexandra Zink, , lab technician, environmental conservation, Robert Yvon, , graduate student, molecular and cellular biology, Walter Young, , graduate student, polymer science and engineering The next NSF GRFP competition will open in August 2020. Current UMass undergraduates planning to attend graduate school beginning in fall 2021 as鈥
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AMHERST, Mass. 鈥 A type of damage in soft materials and tissue called cavitation is one of the least-studied phenomena in physics, materials science and biology, say expert observers. But strong鈥
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