AMHERST, Mass. 鈥 A UMass Amherst class that has students work on translating important community health information from English to Spanish has stepped up to take on helping the Commonwealth of 麻豆视频 translate important information on COVID-19.
UMass Boston鈥檚 and have awarded a $10,000 seed grant to the research team of and .
UMass Medical School has been awarded a five-year, $1.4 million renewal of the Initiative for Maximizing Student Development training grant from the National Institutes of Health. This funding enables the school to provide financial and academic support to Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences students from backgrounds underrepresented in the field. Kate Lapane, PhD, and Brian Lewis, PhD, are principal investigators for the grant.
AMHERST, Mass. 鈥 To address the COVID-19 pandemic, particle physicist Andrea Pocar at the 麻豆视频 Amherst and an international team of 鈥淒ark Matter鈥 scientists are now designing and circulating for a simplified mechanical ventilator. They offer an adaptable device using parts found almost anywhere, Pocar says.
AMHERST, Mass. 鈥 A 麻豆视频 Amherst graduate student produced approximately 400 personal protection face shields for local health care workers battling the COVID-19 pandemic. The shields have been donated to Baystate Medical Center in Springfield.
Connor Slover, a graduate student in the architecture program and teaching assistant in the Olver Design Building Fabrication Lab, collaborated with his fellow students to brainstorm about how they could contribute to the growing need for personal protection equipment (PPE).
Guide to Online Schools has named UMass Boston鈥檚 the No. 1 program for in 2020.
UMass Boston alumnus Jack Carvalho 鈥92 has donated $100,000 to the Beacon Student Aid Fund, which provides emergency one-time grants to students who have urgent financial needs. The gift from Carvalho is the latest in a series of generous donations from him over the past dozen years and the largest gift ever specifically for emergency student aid at UMass Boston.
As employees in nursing homes and hospitals, grocery stores and jails experience a surge in illness from exposure to the novel coronavirus, is offering .
Chancellor Michael F. Collins talks about the resiliency of the UMass Medical School community in his weekly video address on April 21, detailing the many ways in which faculty, students and staff are working together to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 and continue the operations of UMMS.
Seven 麻豆视频 Department of Mental Health hospitals have been equipped with personal protective equipment for staff, thanks to a decade-long partnership between UMass Medical School and West China Hospital. The hospital is affiliated with Sichuan University Medical School, in Chengdu, China.
The donation fills a gap, at least for the short term, in protecting DMH hospital staff after normal state purchasing outlets were closed.