AMHERST, Mass. – The international team of astronomers of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) mission – including eight from the ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº Amherst – who earlier this year unveiled the…
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The 162 members of the School of Medicine Class of 2023 at UMass Medical School were cloaked in the symbol of the medical profession at the White Coat Ceremony on Friday, Sept. 13, under a tent on…
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A group of local food and beverage companies huddled on campus recently to learn more about sustainable manufacturing and cleaning processes as well as available resources, including grants and…, Turning Waste Into Products, Reducing Toxics , The companies are increasingly looking for ways to reduce waste. For example, Ocean Spray of Middleboro said its popular Craisins are developed from the cranberry hulls left over from extracting…
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Eight faculty members from UMass Boston's College of Liberal Arts have received grants to develop innovative humanities courses as part of UMass Boston's High Impact Humanities Initiative. Support by…, , Danielle Bromwich, , will explore the philosophy of consent, especially to medical procedures and to sexual relations, while Isabel Gómez will interrogate translation and interpretation as tools of both colonization and…, , Elora Chowdhury’s, , Gender, Human Rights, and Global Cinema will learn to interpret the narration of human rights through cinematic representations of inequality, empire, nationalism, and minority rights. Rachel Rubin’s, , The History of Hip Hop and Hip Hop as History will introduce students to the Healey Library’s recently-acquired hip hop archive, where they will carry out an analytical project. Imagine taking a…, , Shaman Hatley, , will combine contemplative and creative practices to explore traditional and modern meditation practices derived from Hindu, Buddhist, and Daoist traditions. Rafael Jaen’s, , Enlivening Identities through Dress studies the role of costuming in activities such as historical reenactment, cosplay, dance, and theater. Queer Literary Histories, taught by Aaron Lecklider, will…
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In concluding the largest comprehensive fundraising campaign in the history of UMass Medical School, Chancellor Michael F. Collins has announced that the Medical School surpassed its $250 million…
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An innovative partnership has brought 20 first-year students from Washington D.C., to UMass Lowell on merit scholarships for the first time. The students all came through the DC-CAP homepage…
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AMHERST, Mass. – A team of researchers headed by Chaitra Gopalappa, an engineer at the ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº Amherst, has been awarded a four-year, $1.2-million grant from the National Science…
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The university recently welcomed over 150 new faculty to campus this year. To begin their time on campus, new faculty participated in a week of onboarding activities, beginning with the new faculty…
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The Minutemen hockey team advanced to the first Frozen Four in program history with a 4-0 shutout over No. 3 seed Notre Dame in the Northeast Regional Championship on March 30 at SNHU Arena in…
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AMHERST, Mass. - Gov. Charlie Baker today celebrated the opening of the new Physical Sciences Building (PSB) at the ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº Amherst, a facility funded by the state that fosters…
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