Air National Guard Brig. Gen. Sean Collins, PhD鈥09, has been named a member of the Board of Trustees for the Soldiers鈥 Home in Holyoke. Dr. Collins, assistant professor of nursing, was tapped for his鈥
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UMass Medical School researchers are about to start enrolling adolescents ages 12 through 17 in a clinical trial to test the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine made by Moderna. The vaccine has already been鈥
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AMHERST, Mass. 鈥 Researchers at the 橙子影院 Amherst Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) today published the latest editions of its lists of the top corporate air and鈥
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School of Medicine students are motivating classmates to tackle stress and fatigue through fitness. UMass Medical School鈥檚 chapter of Medicine in Motion , a national nonprofit, is dedicated to鈥
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Tammy T. Nguyen, MD, PhD, assistant professor of surgery, describes herself as a garbage collector. But it would perhaps be more accurate to say Dr. Nguyen is giving biomedical waste a purpose. She鈥檚鈥
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UMass Medical School鈥檚 new assistant vice chancellor for city and community relations comes into the role with a reputation for bringing people together. Ch茅 Anderson joins the Office of Government鈥
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Global infectious diseases like the COVID-19 pandemic need global as well as local solutions, says Prof. Ford-Timothy Timothy Ford , the new chair of the BNS landing page Department of Biomedical鈥, Q: Which diseases are your main focus?, A:, I鈥檓 very interested in waterborne diseases, especially cholera and E. coli 0157, a newer strain of E. coli that鈥檚 highly toxigenic and has a high fatality rate. My research group at Montana State鈥, Q: What are you researching now?, A:, We鈥檝e been looking at ways to do better surveillance of the deadly strain of cholera that arrived In Haiti with U.N. peacekeepers, after the 2010 earthquake. It has killed close to 10,000 people鈥, Q: You have written recently for Timothy Ford articles for The Conversation The Conversation about issues involving COVID-19 vaccines, based on your work in global health. Why are more deadly鈥, A:, No matter how diseases are transmitted 鈥 whether airborne, waterborne, by direct contact or through vectors such as ticks and mosquitoes 鈥 the same trends worldwide are leading to the emergence of鈥, Q: What do you think will cause the next big pandemic?, A:, The most likely sources of pandemics are the respiratory viruses, like influenza and the coronaviruses. After that, perhaps the vector-borne diseases, like malaria. Waterborne diseases that we need鈥
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We are a nation divided. Democrats. Republicans. Polarized. Cleaved. On everything from race to climate change, from how to repair the economy to how to handle the coronavirus pandemic, Americans are鈥, Q. Over the past four years, we have seen a society cleaved not so much by disagreements on opinions over policies or issues, but by disputes about the very facts themselves. Has our country ever鈥, A., The Capitol riots demonstrated the depth of our divided perceptions. In my view, the events of January 6 were in large part driven by dueling fact perceptions 鈥 especially about the fairness of the鈥, Q. You鈥檝e researched what you call 鈥渢he political consequences of belief.鈥 What does that mean?, A., Simply put, ideas have consequences. The beliefs 鈥 values and identities, ideologies and perceptions 鈥 can be identified, and the consequences 鈥 cooperation and conflict, engagement and decline 鈥斺, Q. President Biden has urged Americans to embrace unity over division. But how does a divided nation achieve unity?, A., I don鈥檛 see much future unity around cultural similarity, because we are increasingly culturally distinct in terms of diverse ethnicities, religious beliefs, political values, partisan identities,鈥, Q. What happens if we continue on the road we鈥檙e traveling?, A., Nothing good. I fear much more separation into distinct camps within American society, which will make us poorer, less empathetic, less willing to sacrifice for the nation. If our internal division鈥
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Senior Education landing page education major Abby O鈥橩eefe grew up in Lowell, and she was excited to do her student teaching in a second-grade class at Pawtucketville Elementary School. But because鈥
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Black holes are considered amongst the most mysterious objects in the universe. Part of their intrigue arises from the fact that they are considered one of the simplest solutions to Einstein鈥檚 field鈥, Burko, , 鈥渂ecause the black hole uniqueness theorems are well established, and their extension to extreme black holes. There has to be an assumption of the theorems that are not satisfied, to explain how鈥, Khanna, . Given the breakthrough nature of this work, it was just published in one of the top peer-reviewed physics journals, Physical Review D as a prestigious Letter. The published version may be found鈥
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