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…, THE 2020 $50K IDEA CHALLENGE WINNERS: , The Rist Campus-Wide DifferenceMaker (sponsored by Brian Rist ’77), $7,000: MyGrow Fabrix Significant Social Impact, $4,000: YPG Sutherland Innovative Technology Solution (sponsored by Andrew…
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Rationing health care resources during a pandemic is a complex undertaking, says Assoc. Prof. Hay-Carol Carol Hay of Philosophy landing page Philosophy . What’s clear, though, is that COVID-19 is…, Q: Different states and hospitals have come up with different guidelines for deciding who gets life-saving treatment in case of shortages. Nearly all of the plans prioritize children and pregnant…, A:, I think we need to admit that these are just really hard questions, and they might even be questions where there isn’t one answer. One thing that’s important is that hospitals already have ethics…, Q: Aren’t those front-line doctors the ones with the most information about who has the best chance to survive with a good quality of life?, A:, Research shows that we tend to overestimate our ability to predict other people’s quality of life. Able-bodied people are especially bad at estimating the quality of life of people with disabilities…, Q: On the one hand, this pandemic seems like a great equalizer – everyone is vulnerable. On the other, it does seem to come down to resources. Homeless people, low-income people and people of color…, A:, You can’t shelter in place if you don’t have a place. Home isn’t a safe place to shelter for women and children at risk of domestic violence and for many LGBTQ people. Seventy percent of people who…, Q: As a moral and political philosopher, do you think this represents an opportunity to address some of these inequalities?, A:, It would be great to chip away at some of these inequalities. Am I optimistic that’s going to happen? No. But it’s possible. I do think many Americans are realizing, ‘Oh, wow! This is why universal…, Q: What are our individual ethical responsibilities during a pandemic?, A:, Many of our most pressing obligations right now are obligations of care: take care of yourself; take care of your family; take care of your community by not putting yourself or others unnecessarily…, Q: What kind of philosophical advice can you offer students right now?, A:, What I would say to them, if it’s any comfort, is that if they’re freaked out or they’re scared, they’re tracking. It’s such a strange time: We’re all together in this forced aloneness. It’s really…
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The Healey Library 's University Archives and Special Collections (UASC) staff launched a new project: They’re documenting the UMass Boston community’s response to the COVID-19 crisis. By…, What’s 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…, 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…, 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…, Where are you collecting submissions and how long will you continue to collect?, I wrote a blog post called " Documenting the UMass Boston Community’s Response to COVID-19 " that has a link to the collection forms. We’ll be accepting submissions indefinitely. As long as people…, What will you do with the materials you collect? , The materials will become part of the Healey Library’s permanent digital collections, and if contributors give us permission, they will be shared through our digital collections repository here . We…, 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’re experiencing a time of great stress and uncertainty, and…
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AMHERST, Mass. – As millions of families struggle to keep their children learning while schools are closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, preliminary results of a randomized, controlled study led by…
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AMHERST, Mass. –The Influenza Forecasting Center of Excellence team at the ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº Amherst is developing a COVID-19 forecast hub by unifying multiple models in an effort to…
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AMHERST, Mass. – Only 10 years ago, scientists working on what they hoped would open a new frontier of neuromorphic computing could only dream of a device using miniature tools called memristors that…
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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…
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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 Pérez, , 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…
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As an educator, a scientist and a patient undergoing treatment for multiple myeloma, Jill A. Zitzewitz, PhD, has a unique perspective on dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. “This is a bit scary,…
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Seven ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº Department of Mental Health hospitals have been equipped with personal protective equipment for staff, thanks to a decade-long partnership between UMass Medical School and West…
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