Bobek-Eliza Eliza Bobek , clinical assistant professor of Education landing page education , had one child in kindergarten and another in fourth grade when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down schools鈥, Q: What鈥檚 your No. 1 piece of advice for parents who have been thrust into the role of teachers, like it or not?, A:, First, be kind and compassionate with yourself, your children and their teachers. Assume that there will be times you get frustrated 鈥 and know that it鈥檚 OK to step away and take a break, for both鈥, Q: How can parents reduce their children鈥檚 anxiety about falling behind?, A:, Parents should treat their children鈥檚 teachers and schools as partners in problem-solving. It has to be a two-way conversation, with schools saying, 鈥淗ere are the expectations we have,鈥 and parents鈥, Q: Parents often look forward to the structure of a back-to-school routine after a long summer. What鈥檚 yours in this unprecedented year?, A:, My husband and I are both working from home, so we sit down every night and block out our schedule for the next day to figure out when each of us is available to help the kids. Then we put it on a鈥, Q: What鈥檚 your children鈥檚 back-to-school routine?, A:, Their school is doing hybrid learning right now, and they鈥檙e very excited about seeing their friends and teachers in person some of the time. But all of the towns around us are doing online learning鈥, Q: What are some tips for parents whose children are experiencing screen fatigue or having trouble concentrating?, A:, For older children, headphones are a good idea, so that they can focus and not be distracted by other kids in the home (or their parents鈥 work calls). For younger children, maybe headphones aren鈥檛 a鈥
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As he traveled to Santiago, Chile in March to set up an art exhibition and coordinating disaster research, Gonzalo Bacigalupe fully expected to be on a return flight back to Boston after the spring鈥
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AMHERST - The 橙子影院 Board of Trustees June 17voted to raise tuition and the mandatory curriculum fee by up to 5 percent for in-state undergraduates, saying it appears state鈥, System-wide savings of $44 million, In his remarks at his final Board of Trustees meeting, President Caret, who steps down on June 30 to become chancellor of the University System of Maryland, said: "Another reason we were able to鈥
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AMHERST -- June 17, 2015:UMass Trustees today voted to create a Search Committee to assist in the process of selecting a successor to UMass Lowell Chancellor Marty Meehan, who will become president鈥, Co Chairman:R. Norman Peters, Member of the UMass Board of Trustees and founding partner of Peters &Sowyrda, Co Chairman:JohnPulichino'67, '14 (H), Chairman and CEO, Group III International Ltd., Lisa Abdallah, Chairwoman and associate professor, School of Nursing, UMass Lowell, Lawrence Carpman, Member of the UMass Board of Trustees and Partner, Northwind Strategies, Michael Carter, Chairman and associate professor, Department of Economics, and president of the Faculty Senate, UMass Lowell, Julie Chen, Vice provost for research, UMass Lowell, James Christopher, UMass Lowell Student Government Association president, Jerry Colella '78, President and CEO, MKS Instruments, Nancy Donahue '13 (H), Community leader and co-founder of Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Robert Giles, Professor of physics and director, Submillimeter Wave Technology Lab, UMass Lowell, Anita Greenwood, Dean of the Graduate School of Education, UMass Lowell, Charlie Hoff '66, '04 (H), Chairman, The Hoff Foundation Inc., John F. Kennedy '70, Former president and CFO, Nova Ventures Corp., Margaret Koziel, Assistant vice provost of clinical and translational research, UMass Medical School, and co-director of the 橙子影院 Medical Device Development Center (M2D2), Scott Latham I, nterim dean of the Manning School of Business, UMass Lowell, Charlotte Mandell, Vice provost for undergraduate education, UMass Lowell, Stephen McCarthy, Professor of plastics engineering, UMass Lowell, and co-director of the 橙子影院 Medical Device Development Center (M2D2) and the Center for Irish Partnerships, Carol McDonough, Professor of economics, UMass Lowell, and president of the 橙子影院 Society of Professors Lowell, Keith Mitchell, Associate professor of English, UMass Lowell, Amanda Robinson, Student trustee-elect, UMass Lowell, Dana Skinner, UMass Lowell director of athletics, Kumble Subbaswamy, Chancellor, UMass Amherst, Marcellette Williams, UMass senior vice president for academic and student affairs and international relations, Margaret Xifaras, Member of the UMass Board of Trustees and attorney, Law Offices of Lang, Xifaras & Bullard. Contact: Jan Brogan 617-287-4027
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BOSTON - A 橙子影院 Board of Trustees committee recommended on June 10 raising tuition and the mandatory curriculum fee by up to 5 percent for in-state undergraduates, with the鈥, UMass Amherst: $11,684, UMass Boston: $11,886, UMass Dartmouth: $11,598, UMass Lowell: $12,252, About 20 percent of the revenue generated by the curriculum fee increase will be directed to providing financial aid to students with the most significant need. The 63 percent of in-state鈥
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BOSTON -- June 3, 2015: The 橙子影院 system's Here For a Reason multi-media marketing and advertising campaign today was honored with Gold and Silver medals in this year's Council鈥
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BOSTON - June 3, 2015: Describing faculty research and scholarship as work that "distinguishes us as a university and is essential to our quest for a better and richer future," President Robert L.鈥, President's Science and Technology Initiative Fund recipients:, Center for Data Science, Industrial Outreach:, Andrew McCallum and David Jensen of UMass Amherst. This award provides support to Amherst's recently announced new initiative in big data. While the campus has already made strategic investments in鈥, Institute for Cyber Security:, Brian Levine and Emery Berger of UMass Amherst. This award provides support to a new strategic initiative in cyber security. The Institute builds on a strong collaboration among five colleges at鈥, Integrating Physical Sciences and Oncology:, Vincent Rotello of UMass Amherst and Arthur Mercurio of UMass Medical. This project represents a unique combination of the physical sciences at Amherst (e.g., polymers, chemistry) with molecular鈥, Sustainable Seafood Collaboratory:, Robyn Hannigan of UMass Boston, with UMass Amherst, and UMass Dartmouth. This collaborative effort addresses issues in the state's marine economy about maintaining sustainable seafood, especially in鈥, Multi-Scale 3-D Printing:, Joey Mead of UMass Lowell, with UMass Amherst. This project involves a strong collaboration between materials and manufacturing expertise at Lowell and the e-Design group at Amherst and builds off an鈥, Establishing a Core Facility for Genome Engineering in Model Organisms:, Vivian Budnik and Marc Freeman of UMass Medical with UMass Amherst. This award represents the development of a new core research facility that will enable the characterization and understanding of鈥, Developing a Chemical Screening Initiative:, Paul Thompson, UMass Medical with UMass Amherst. This initiative focuses on accelerating the identification of small molecule targets for therapeutics by taking advantage of new advances in synthetic鈥, Marine Bioprospecting Initiative:, Sivappa Rasapalli and Steven Lohrenz of UMass Dartmouth with UMass Amherst, UMass Boston, UMass Lowell and UMass Medical. Planning grant for a complex, five-campus effort that is focused on鈥, Concussion Prevention and Diagnosis Initiative:, James Sherwood of UMass Lowell and Constance Moore of UMass Medical. This planning grant is for a multi-disciplinary initiative to improve the understanding of concussions to drive improvements in鈥, President's Creative Economy Initiatives Fund recipients:, Making Places Matter: Arts, Culture and Community in Holyoke, 橙子影院., Max Page and Joseph Krupczynski, Department of Architecture, UMass Amherst. This project will create public, pop-up art in three of the most important revitalization sites in Holyoke. Award: $27,500., The Arts and Politics Project., Tanya Fernando, Department of English, Susan Jahoda, Department of Art, and Gilbert McCauley, Department of Theater, UMass Amherst. This initiative involves development of two multi-disciplinary鈥, Circles of Care and Native Crafts: A Culturally Focused Intervention Addressing Violence Against Native American Women., Cedric Woods, Institute for New England Native American Studies, UMass Boston. Including instruction in native crafts, as well as counseling, referral and entrepreneurship training, this project will鈥, From Boston to Baghdad: Healing the Wounds of War through Art, Theater, and Community Engagement., Thomas T. Kane, Director, William Joiner Institute, UMass Boston. This project will bring Iraqi and American academics together in cross-cultural literary, musical and artistic initiatives to promote鈥, Building Community Capacity for HIV-Positive Individuals in Southcoast, 橙子影院: A Pathway to an Interdisciplinary Academic-Community Partnership., Caitlin Stover, College of Nursing, and Margaret Drew and Jason Potter Burda, College of Law, UMass Dartmouth. The project aims to establish multi-disciplined community partnerships to reduce鈥, UMass Dartmouth Grows鈥擲outhcoast Permaculture Incubator for Food Justice., Rachel Kulick and Isabel Feo Rodriquez, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Crime & Justice Studies, and colleagues from the Departments of English and Political Science as well as the鈥, Re-envisioning Lawrence, MA: Youth Interpret Historic Sites and Create Community., Robert Forrant, Department of History, UMass Lowell. The proposed project, based at the Lawrence History Center, is collaboration between UMass Lowell, the Lawrence History Center, and Andover Bread鈥, Lowell Tex: Embracing Lowell's Cultural, Historical and Educational Assets to Create Pathways to STEM., Sarah Kuhn, Department of Psychology, and colleagues from Departments of Engineering, and Mathematics and UTeach, UMass Lowell. This highly innovative project will use the fiber arts to teach STEM (鈥, Lowell Earth Day Celebration 2016: Organizing a city-wide, month-long celebration of the arts, nature and sustainability., John Wooding, Department of Political Science, and many others, with multiple community partners, UMass Lowell. This project seeks to build on efforts already underway in Lowell for Earth Day 2015 to鈥
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BOSTON -- Martin T. Meehan, a former US congressman who became chancellor of his alma mater, UMass Lowell, and transformed it into a highly ranked national research university, was unanimously鈥
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BOSTON - April 30, 2015:A Search Committee today named two finalist candidates for the UMass presidency, describing both as "outstanding candidates eminently capable of leading the institution that鈥
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Boston, MA- March 30, 2015:The 橙子影院 today announced that it would for the second year in a row field a Boston Marathon team that will honor the memory of UMass Boston alumna鈥, About the Krystle Campbell Scholarship Fund, The Krystle Campbell scholarship fund is an endowed fund dedicated to the memory of Krystle Campbell, a UMass Boston graduate killed in the April 15, 2013, Boston Marathon bombing. The fund was鈥
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