Associate Professor of Management and acclaimed climate change strategist Nardia Haigh was awarded the 2020 Book Award from the Organizations and Natural Environment (ONE) Division of the Academy…
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The UMass Amherst food science department maintained its number-one ranking in the U.S. and jumped to seventh in the world, according to the 2020 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects , part of the…
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AMHERST, Mass. – The ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº Amherst has announced a new collaboration with IntelliVen , a leading executive team development organization, to provide interactive, remote…
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The International Association for Geoscience Diversity recently named Michele Cooke, geosciences, as the recipient of its 2020 International Association for Geoscience Diversity Inclusive Geoscience…
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For the fourth time in the past five years, the Mark H. McCormack Department of Sport Management has been judged by its academic peers as the number one sport management program in the world,…
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Associate professor Alejandro Heuck’s biochemistry lab, in collaboration with Worcester-based Microbiotix, Inc., has been awarded a two-year, $600,000 NIH Small Business Technology Transfer award to…
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BOSTON – On the eve of https://nationalvoterregistrationday.org/ National Voter Registration Day , the five elected UMass student trustees released the following joint statement in support of the…
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The Remillard Family Community Service Fund has awarded eight grants for projects with the potential to improve the health of Central ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº residents, particularly those who are economically…, Improving flu vaccination accessibility amidst COVID-19 within the Worcester Free Care Collaborative, proposed by Ashvin Antony, SOM’23 : This grant will establish free flu vaccination stations for patients in marginalized communities served by the free clinics who can’t afford or get access to…, Companion wellness program: Addressing social isolation and loneliness for hospitalized patients in the local community , proposed by Adarsha Bajracharya, MD, assistant professor of medicine: The goal of this initiative is to provide virtual and in-person visits by UMass Medical School student volunteers to English and…, Worcester Department of Health and Human Services recovery coach initiative , proposed by Matilde Castiel, MD, associate professor of medicine: A pilot program which employs a recovery coach to connect marginalized individuals suffering from drug addiction to harm-reduction…, Project Autism Network: Culture, Healthy Outcomes and Resilience (ANCHOR), proposed by Roula Choueiri, MD, professor of pediatrics: Identifying and training family navigators from diverse cultures and educating early childhood health care providers to recognize early…, HARMONIOUS: A virtual community-based mental health initiative among Chinese-Americans and Chinese immigrants , proposed by Zilin Cui, SOM’23 : HARMONIOUS is an online community-based bilingual education and support initiative to reduce cultural stigma, encourage open communication and improve access to and…, Drivers education for high risk teens , proposed by Robert Gakwaya, MD’18: Providing free driver’s education leading to licensure for at-risk youth from disadvantaged communities, where underage, unlicensed drivers are more likely to be…, A better birth experience: A pilot program expanding access to trained labor support, proposed by Kristina Gracey, MD, MPH, assistant professor of family medicine & community health: This pilot program will provide training and technology for perinatal community health workers…, Brain Bee Bootcamp outreach program , proposed by Erica Kwiatkowski, PhD candidate in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences: Now in its second year, this tutoring program to introduce high school students to neuroscience and…
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Kim Winiker, SOM ’21, ran his first Boston Marathon on Sept. 6 for the Marathon Strides Against MS team and raised nearly $20,000 for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society , an organization that…
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MassBiologics of UMass Medical School has entered into an agreement with PTC Therapeutics to manufacture biological investigational new drugs and commercial pharmaceutical products for use in humans…
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