AMHERST, Mass. – Serena Sarage, a native of South Hadley, has realized her two-pronged dream of moving to Colorado and joining the heroic efforts of the nursing workforce during a once-in-a-century…
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AMHERST, Mass. – The 28th Annual ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº Multicultural Film Festival and the 2020-2021 UMass Amherst History Department Feinberg Series co-present an online conversation with the acclaimed…
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Study.com has ranked UMass Dartmouth’s accounting program, offered at the Charlton College of Business, #21 among 50 on their list of "2021 Best Degrees in Accounting." Hundreds of universities…
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³È×ÓÓ°Ôº campuses are deploying the energy, expertise, and ingenuity of students, faculty and staff in support of the Commonwealth’s COVID-19 vaccination effort. After 10 months…, Vaccination clinics, The UMass Amherst vaccination clinic, launched January 11, is run by the university’s Public Health Promotion Center (PHPC) and has vaccinated thousands of people. The Mount Ida Campus of UMass…, , has partnered with the Holtzman Medical Group to launch a COVID-19 vaccine clinic at its Newton site. The clinic, which is currently scheduled to be open on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays through…, Research, Using RNA as the basis for current therapies (including the first two COVID-19 vaccines, from Pfizer and Moderna) dates back to 1998 with research by Craig Mello at UMass Medical School and his…, Community outreach, UMass Medical School faculty who are expert in community-engaged research are organizing and hosting a dozen virtual community forums to meet with select, multilingual, vulnerable populations in…
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Last spring, after COVID-19 shut down the campus, Education landing page education Ph.D. student Djurabaeva-Sharifa Sharifa Djurabaeva was feeling isolated. She had finished all of her classes…
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What do successful rock 'n’ roll bands have in common with hard-charging entrepreneurs who reach the top echelons of business? A willingness to fail, to regroup and to try again, said Greg Harris,…
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The U.S. faces one of the most consequential public health campaigns in history right now: to vaccinate the population against COVID-19 and, especially, to get shots into the arms of people who…, What a vaccine corps looks like, The problem of getting people vaccinated quickly isn’t just about supply – it’s also about having enough people to carry out vaccinations, particularly in hard-to-reach communities. If quickly…, Reaching underserved communities – including their own, In particular, a large, well-organized vaccine corps could play a crucial role in reaching out to communities that are underserved, overlooked or hard to reach. Corps members could staff phone banks…, The potential for scaling up, The U.S. has a long history of creating health corps. After the Sept. 11 attacks, the federal government launched the volunteer Medical Reserve Corps to mobilize current and former medical…
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Worcester HIV Vaccine, a biotechnology company dedicated to the development of a vaccine to prevent HIV infections around the world, has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration…
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Reflecting on his 30-year career in the pharmaceutical industry, Jerry St. Peter ’89 sees a direct connection between his UMass Lowell experience and his success. “When I look back on my time at the…
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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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