Asst. Prof. of Public Health page Public Health Rajabiun-Serena Serena Rajabiun is leading a team of researchers and community partners that has won a four-year, $3.9 million grant from the U.S.…
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Investigators at UMass Medical School have received two, five-year grants totaling $13 million to explore how the 4D genome structure influences gene expression, cellular function, development and…
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Research exists around gender, sexual orientation and weight status inequities and eating disorders, but little is known about how these disparities intersect and what role social determinants may…
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The second in a series of campus conversations on diversity and inclusion was framed by the book that’s the UMass Medical School’s campus read, Ibram X. Kendi’s 2019 book How to Be an Antiracist .…, Related story on UMassMed ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº:, The Equity Collaborative builds culture, tools to promote gender parity
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What makes an organization committed to fully inclusive gender equity? That was the framework for the first in a series of UMass Medical School community conversations on diversity and inclusion,…
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Tim Scalona, a graduate student at the School of Public Policy, has been elected student trustee for the Amherst campus on the ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº Board of Trustees, where he plans to…
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Marcelo Suárez-Orozco remembers Boston from the decade he taught at Harvard and raised his family in Cambridge, in the late ’90s and early aughts, as a city in the throes of physical upheaval—the Big…
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On a typical day, family nurse practitioner , Valery Joseph ’10, G’18, sees between 15 and 18 patients at the Whittier Street Health Center in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood. Most of her patients range in age from 50 to 90. About 90 percent speak Spanish, one of four…, Goddard House Renews Support for Mid-Career Nursing Students, In March, Goddard House, the oldest nonprofit elder care organization in ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº, pledged a $500,000 gift over five years to the Goddard House–Doane Scholarship program. The program provides…
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Four hundred years after the first Thanksgiving—a three-day harvest feast celebrated in 1621 by a band of desperately struggling English settlers and a group of neighboring native Wampanoag— it…, Elizabeth Tarulis G’20, , a master’s student at the time of the discovery, said finding evidence of constructed features that have disappeared over time is different from finding tangible artifacts. “Because soil is…, Constance the Calf, In 2014, when UMass Boston researchers began to find 17thcentury artifacts such as pottery, tins, trade beads, and musket balls, they were cautiously optimistic that they had found a location inside…
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Whether it’s through film, drawing, music, theater, or dance, , Maria Servellón ’12, has always been creating art in one form or another. But it wasn’t until her sophomore year at UMass Boston that she considered turning her talents into a career. “I originally pursued psychology,…
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