Kevin Stokesbury, Professor of Fisheries Oceanography at UMass Dartmouth’s School for Marine Science & Technology (SMAST), has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on the…, About Dr. Kevin Stokesbury, Kevin Stokesbury earned his PhD in Marine Ecology at the Universite Laval in 1994. He joined SMAST as a faculty member in 2000 and has served as chair for the Department of Fisheries Oceanography.…
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Resilience is the capacity of a system to absorb a shock and recover from it without a significant loss of performance. For civil infrastructure systems subject to extreme events, this performance is…
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On January 28, 2021, the Commonwealth of ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº honored UMass Dartmouth Director of Health Services Marianne Sullivan and Director of the Fitness Center Greg Homol as the recipients of the…, Sullivan, . “I have seen the selflessness of individuals and their willingness to work together to make our fall semester successful. New collaborations and working relationships have given us a new sense of…, Homol, . “We set out to make the testing process pleasant, and not a burden or an inconvenience. We connected with our students, faculty, and staff. We asked how things were going, what they were doing for…, Dr. Shannon Finning, , Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs. “Their dedication to our on-campus Testing Facility has allowed our students to continue striving towards their academic ambitions and our faculty and staff to…
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Two faculty members have transformed UMass Boston’s stretch of the HarborWalk into a meditative Grace Trail ®. Associate Professor of Exercise and Health Sciences Sarah M. Camhi and Senior…
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Director of UMass Boston’s Center for Governance and Sustainability and McCormack Graduate School Associate Professor Maria Ivanova has been appointed for a four-year term to the World Climate…
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Now that the new Biden administration has made tackling climate change a top priority, researchers from UMass Lowell are helping policymakers better understand why the issue is so urgent. The…, Q: What will the CCI’s role be in the upcoming simulations with policymakers? A:, In addition to helping facilitate the simulations, we’re going to research their impact on policymakers. What’s their emotional response? How engaged are they? How much personal involvement do they…, Q: What do you hope policymakers will take from the experience? A:, Depolarizing climate change and other politically charged issues is really important right now. We need to come together to solve problems in a way that’s grounded in reality and facts. And we are…, Q: President Biden hasn’t wasted any time establishing climate change as a pillar of his administration. What’s your reaction? A:, I’m relieved. I feel like we’re finally at a place where climate change is not a niche issue anymore. This is what we’ve been imagining and hoping and working towards for more than 10 years now.…, Q: How has the COVID-19 crisis intersected with climate change? A:, I personally don’t like to refer to silver linings — because there’s been so much grief and suffering and awful things that people have had to go through with the pandemic, and it seems…, Q: Former President Trump often questioned science. As a scientist yourself, how are things different now with President Biden? A:, It’s just a relief, and not just as a climate scientist. You heard from Dr. Anthony Fauci, just the sense of, OK, I don’t need to be afraid about speaking up anymore. Ultimately, reality is going to…, Q: You were at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in 2015 that resulted in the Paris Agreement — from which Trump withdrew the U.S. and which Biden has since rejoined. What are the…, There definitely are ramifications of our withdrawal. Clearly, as with all of the things that have happened recently, including the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6, that’s going to be front…
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A new Graduate School of Nursing initiative is putting Doctor of Nursing Practice and PhD students at the head of the class to serve as role models for their peers. Jacqueline Mbugua, a student in…
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Sio Gene Therapies, a company focused on developing gene therapies to radically transform the lives of patients with neurodegenerative diseases, announced that the first patient with infantile Tay-…
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AMHERST, Mass. – A greater understanding of why expectant mothers choose to use cannabis during their pregnancies, and how they take the drug, are key for health care workers to be able to determine…
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AMHERST, Mass. – To build a universal quantum computer from fragile quantum components, effective implementation of quantum error correction (QEC) is an essential requirement and a central challenge…
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