What would it look like for UMass Boston to integrate community and industry leaders seamlessly into the classroom as educators, and develop community-university learning partnerships that deliver…, ANTH 477: The Latino Leadership Opportunity Program, Associate Professor of Anthropology , Rosalyn Negrón,, and , Monica Cohen, , owner and founder of The Boom House Productions, WGS 270: Indigenous Women: Leadership and Self-Determination in North America, Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Amy E. Den Ouden,, and , Melissa (Harding) Ferretti, , chairwomen/president of Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe, ENGL448: Perspectives on Literacy, Associate Professor of English, Matthew Davis,, and , Carolyn Navikonis, , director of programs and community engagement at 826 Boston, AF 495: Financial Policy, Senior Lecturer of Finance, Kristen Callahan, , and , Charles Smith, , senior vice president and SBA program manager at Eastern Bank The PSP Institute also created a safe space for the new co-teaching pairs to explore and address unconscious bias in teaching and…
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Mammograms can be painful. Biopsies are invasive. And MRIs take time. Research Assistant Professor Alexey Tonyushkin just received a three-year $441,780 grant from the National Institutes of Health…
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AMHERST, Mass. – A team of astronomers including assistant professor Kate Whitaker at the ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº Amherst reports today that they have by chance discovered faint traces of a huge…
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Video conferencing applications have helped people stay connected during the coronavirus pandemic — whether it’s for business, education or just to hang out with friends and family. One of the most…
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Just like classes, the career fair, advising sessions and campus tours, the 23rd annual Research symposium landing page Student Research and Community Engagement Symposium moved online this spring…, Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences, SHE-PT landing page Exercise science students were recognized for their research into whether a new device could collect heart rate data as reliably and as accurately as industry standard…, Francis College of Engineering, Chemical engineering landing page Chemical engineering major and Undergraduate research oppoertunities page Immersive Scholar Anthony Quartarone was recognized for his research on propane…, College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Senior Music landing page music education major Alexis Csicsek’s winning entry involved a plan to take student-musicians to the Chelmsford Senior Center for a karaoke performance. The students…, Manning School of Business, The Business landing page Manning School of Business had 12 projects represented in the symposium, six undergraduate entries and six graduate student entries. Four of the undergraduate projects…, Kennedy College of Sciences, For her research project, sophomore Biology landing page biology major Caitlin Panessiti worked with Mateo Rull, a sophomore biology and Psychology landing page psychology double major, and…, College of Education, Yelenna Rondon, a Ph.D. student, won top honors for the second year in a row for her project, part of the Cool Science research on using student artwork on buses to improve public education about…
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Dr. Yong K. Kim, chancellor professor in the Department of Bioengineering at UMass Dartmouth, has developed and patented materials and methods to make swabs that are now being used in millions of…
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, Associate Professor Erin Bromage (Biology) created a blog to help friends and family understand the practical ways that the virus can spread through a community. On May…
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Graduate students in Jennifer Bender’s Introduction to Environmental Innovation Clinic class have won protection in ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº for the sand lance, a previously unregulated fish. Because of its…
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AMHERST, Mass. – A new study reported this week by evolutionary ecologist Lynn Adler at the ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº Amherst and Rebecca Irwin of North Carolina State University, with others,…
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UMass Amherst’s impact in fighting COVID-19 extends to a program backed by the university in Afghanistan. Two graduates from the first cohort of the Biomedical Technology (BMET) associate degree…
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