The largest terrestrial carbon sink on earth is the planet鈥檚 soil. One of the fears that many scientists have is that a warming planet will liberate significant portions of the soil鈥檚 carbon, turning鈥
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AMHERST, Mass. 鈥 The 橙子影院 Amherst鈥檚 Institute for Applied Life Sciences (IALS) has announced that six campus research teams have been named recipients of the 3rd annual 鈥, 3Daughters, : Carlos Gradil, veterinary & animal sciences. A women鈥檚 healthcare startup developing a new ergonomic, pain-free, magnetic intrauterine device (IUD). , E2-PATH, : Karen Dunphy/Joe Jerry, veterinary & animal sciences. A diagnostic personalized medicine screening platform for selecting optimized breast cancer treatments. , OPG Wastewater Treatment, : Chul Park, civil & environmental engineering. Developing technology that enables aeration-free and energy efficient wastewater treatment. , Optical Waters, : Mariana Lopes, civil & environmental engineering. Germicidal optical fibers to prevent disease causing biofilms in medical devices. , RNA4Therapeutics, : Craig Martin, chemistry. A novel manufacturing technology for the synthesis of high purity, low-cost, and large scale RNA manufacturing for therapeutic use. , Volvox Sciences, : Ashish Kulkarni, chemical engineering. Developing a novel supramolecular nano-therapeutic (CSF-SNT) that can efficiently remove cancer tumor cells. The award process brought together on-campus and鈥
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Assistant Professor Olga Goulko Imagine that a grasshopper is sitting on a lawn. It jumps. What is the probability that it lands back on the lawn? The question is known as 鈥 the grasshopper problem鈥
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Students, staff, faculty, administrators, and service members past and present joined the Veteran's Day celebration in the Campus Center. Image by: Janina Seibel On the eve of Veterans Day, the UMass鈥
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UMass Boston has partnered with the 橙子影院 Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) and Wheels , the leading last-mile, shared electric mobility platform, to offer hybrid micromobility devices鈥斺, Marco McCottry, , CEO of Wheels. 鈥淎s in-person activities resume, co-created micromobility solutions like this partnership with UMass Boston and the MBTA will only become more important. This collaboration shows鈥, Daniel Scavongelli, , a transportation demand management coordinator at UMass Boston. 鈥淲e鈥檙e excited to partner with Wheels to give people a safe, affordable, and sustainable option to get around campus so they can鈥
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Students celebrate National First-Generation College Day on the Campus Center Terrace on Monday. Image by: Janina Seibel 鈥溾o break the cycle;鈥 鈥溾o be a role model for my sister;鈥 鈥溾o build a鈥
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Participants learn about a shoreline restoration project at Coughlin Park in Winthrop during a conference field trip. The project was completed by the Woods Hole Group and is being monitored by the鈥, About the Stone Living Lab, The Stone Living Lab, is an innovative and collaborative initiative for testing and scaling up nature-based approaches to climate adaptation, coastal resilience and ecological restoration in the high-energy environment鈥
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Maria Ivanova with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan As world leaders converged in Glasgow to take stock of progress on the Paris global climate change agreement, there were questions about the鈥
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ProBlak speaks to American Studies 263: The History of Hip-Hop and Hip-Hop as History. When you think of the art scene in Boston, maybe the first thing that comes to mind is the MFA or the ICA. But鈥
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Some stories need thousands of words. They are allowed to use six. That is the challenge posed to UMass Boston students by the Creative Writing program, which makes a campus-wide call for six-word鈥
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