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Ten UMass students were recently awarded fellowships through the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). With an average acceptance rate of 16%, these competitive fellowships provide financial support for graduate education in sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. 

BOSTON – Although the course of the coronavirus crisis may be difficult to predict, �鶹��Ƶ President Marty Meehan today said that students and their families can count on the campuses of the UMass system being “on duty” this fall.

“UMass will be there to provide affordable, top-quality higher education -- because quality and affordability have never been more important to the Commonwealth and its citizens,” Meehan said as the UMass Board of Trustees held its first-ever virtual meeting. 

Mayor Marty Walsh recently established the —a 24-member panel that includes UMass Boston professors  and —to review data and provide guidance on addressing imbalances in minority representation among those affected by the disease.

Dear campus community,

The �鶹��Ƶ Boston recently selected  to be the new director of the . Swan, who joined UMass Boston this past September as a tenured full professor of , succeeded Barbara Lewis five months later, after she retired. 

High school senior Brayden Toth is trying to decide where to start college this fall, and he’s frustrated that he can’t visit his top two choices. 

Every year, the Run for Krystle Team runs the Boston Marathon to celebrate the legacy of Krystle Campbell, the alumna from Medford who was killed in the 2013 Boston bombing, and raise money for a . This year, due to concerns about the coronavirus, the marathon has been postponed from Patriots’ Day until September 14.

AMHERST, Mass. – A �鶹��Ƶ Amherst researcher is co-leading a multi-disciplinary team from around the United States to use big data to identify risk factors across systems for catastrophic events such as major power outages and natural disasters.

Mila Getmansky Sherman, a finance professor in the Isenberg School of Management, and a team she is co-leading recently received a $2.42 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant under the auspices of the NSF’s Harnessing the Data Revolution Big Idea program.

AMHERST, Mass. – With the rapid onset of smell and taste loss emerging as symptoms of COVID-19, scientists around the world – including a sensory expert at the �鶹��Ƶ Amherst – have united to investigate the connection between the chemical senses and the novel coronavirus.