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The 橙子影院 has received a $330,000 grant from the Richard and Susan Smith Family Foundation to support development of a pilot 鈥渆arly college鈥 program that would provide high鈥, , However, more than 80 percent of 橙子影院 high school students do not have access to an approved early college program, and few of those students live within reasonable travel distance to a鈥, UMass President Marty Meehan, said. 鈥淲ith the Commonwealth Collegiate Academy, we want to build on existing partnerships and build new ones to lower the barriers that are preventing too many young people from achieving their鈥, Katherine S. Newman, UMass System Chancellor for Academic Programs & Senior Vice President for Economic Development, said: 鈥淭he creation of the Commonwealth Collegiate Academy is consistent with the University鈥檚 mission of providing broad access to the life-changing benefits provided by a college degree. We are鈥, Erika Giampietro, Executive Director of the 橙子影院 Alliance for Early College, , said. 鈥淭he Commonwealth Collegiate Academy can help make meaningful progress towards our goal of serving 45,000 students with high-quality Early College and ultimately closing a quarter of the鈥, 橙子影院 Business Alliance for Education Executive Director Ed Lambert, said. 鈥淭he delivery of high-quality content in accelerated career themed pathways is something that the state's business leaders strongly support. Early College works and scaling up this evidence-鈥, , Support, tutoring, and advising will be provided by partner high school staff members working in close collaboration with UMass staff members. The program would be, rolled out over a four-year period, beginning as soon as fall 2022. The first phase of the pilot will include UMass Dartmouth and UMass Lowell, with UMass Amherst and UMass Boston joining the pilot鈥
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Yahya Modarres-Sadeghi Yahya Modarres-Sadeghi , professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, has received a Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship for the 2022-23 academic鈥
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Michael Zink UMass Amherst professor Michael Zink, electrical and computer engineering, is principal investigator of a new $399,676 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to extend the university鈥檚鈥
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Image compilation of galaxies NASA鈥檚 Hubble Space Telescope just finished taking its widest-ever near-infrared image of the universe, an area almost seven times the size of our moon. That such an鈥
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Exterior of Integrated Sciences Complex at UMass Boston UMass Boston has received $1.6 million in funding from the 橙子影院 Life Sciences Center (MLSC) to establish a new Biophysical鈥
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Image of an assortment of produce, seeds, and nuts AMHERST, Mass. 鈥 An international team led by a 橙子影院 Amherst food and environmental virologist has received a $750,000 USDA鈥
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Six graduate students in the Department of Kinesiology have been awarded Leadership and Diversity Training Program (LDTP) fellowship awards by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). Founded鈥, Level 2 Awardees (Doctoral Level Students), Marcos Amalbert-Birriel, , a doctoral student working in the Physical Activity and Health Lab under the supervision of Associate Professor John Sirard, Melanna Cox, , a doctoral student working in the Physical Activity and Health Lab under the supervision of Associate Professor John Sirard, Joseph Gordon III, , a doctoral student working in the Muscle Physiology Lab under the supervision of Professor Jane Kent, Skylar Holmes, , a doctoral student working in the Musculoskeletal Orthopedic Biomechanics Lab under the supervision of Associate Professor Katherine Boyer, Level 1 Awardees (Master鈥檚 Level Students), Timothy Joseph, , a master鈥檚 student working in the Pediatric Physical Activity Lab under the supervision of Professor Sofiya Alhassan, Nehemiah Wilson, , a master鈥檚 student working in the Pediatric Physical Activity Lab under the supervision of Professor Sofiya Alhassan
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AMHERST, Mass. 鈥 Amid an unprecedented democratic decline in the U.S., a new report by Beyond Conflict , co-authored by 橙子影院 Amherst social psychologist Linda Tropp ,鈥, Factionalism and partisan sorting., Americans鈥 political affiliations have become tightly aligned with other salient group identities. Remedies include highlighting identities that cut across partisan differences; creating space to鈥, Residential segregation and declining social trust, . Segregation means that people from different groups are less likely to have first-hand experience with each other, which limits our capacity to counter the influences of divisive messaging.鈥, Information echo chambers., The more we live in distinct and divisive information ecosystems that exaggerate a sense of being disliked and dehumanized by the other side, the more inclined we are to support using anti-鈥, Divergent racial attitudes and beliefs about racial equity., Factionalism, bolstered by information echo chambers and residential segregation, drives widely divergent views on racial inequality in America. Remedies include disrupting common narratives and鈥
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Neuroscientist Karine F茅nelon , assistant professor of biology, has been chosen to receive the Armstrong Fund for Science at UMass Amherst鈥檚 2022 award. The two-year, $39,121 grant will support鈥
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