Four projects proposed by faculty members have been awarded Public Service Endowment Grants from a special campus fund designed to boost outreach, extend the campus resources into the surrounding community and enhance the public service mission of the university.
Professors Michael Zink, electrical and computer engineering, and Ramesh Sitaraman of the College of Information and Computer Sciences, invite you to imagine watching a Super Bowl game from the comfort of your own living room, but experiencing the game as if you were on the field with the quarterback.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded a collaborative team led by Andrew McGregor, computer science, a three-year, $1.5 million grant to further develop the foundations of data science in a project that will create NSF鈥檚 national .
A gathered on Monday, November 4, to celebrate the life and accomplishments of UMass Boston鈥檚 longest serving chancellor, Sherry H. Penney, remembering her as a pioneer, a leader, and a collaborator.
Penney passed away in May at the age of 81.
Two of UMass Boston鈥檚 fall sports teams鈥攙olleyball and women鈥檚 soccer鈥攁re headed to the NCAA Tournament after winning Little East Conference Tournament titles on Saturday.
Volleyball to Face No. 18 Babson College on Friday
UMass Boston鈥檚 volleyball team will play No. 18 Babson College at Tufts University on Friday in the first round of the NCAA Regional Tournament. The start time has not yet been announced.
鈥淲e鈥檙e ready to keep this season going,鈥 said Interim Head Coach Kate Carlson 鈥10.
Prof. , who brought UML鈥檚 nationally renowned from silence to full volume more than three decades ago, has been named the 2019 Distinguished University Professor.
was Jonathan Monaghan鈥檚 professor at New York Institute of Technology from 2007 to 2008, overseeing his Senior Project I and II courses. They stayed in touch and even exhibited in a group show together in China at the Beijing Today Museum.
Oda, who joined UML鈥檚 Art & Design faculty in 2017, teaches 3D/Expanded Media. And Monaghan is now a Washington, D.C.-based artist whose work paints a portrait of an increasingly angst-filled, technologically driven future.
Ten years ago, Diane Hewitt was too busy helping 28 majors craft their r茅sum茅s, practice their interview skills and find matches with local companies to really consider what the university鈥檚 new program would look like a decade later.
As flu season begins, the message from health care providers remains the same: Vaccination is the single best way to protect yourself and others from the potentially life-threatening illness.
鈥淔lu vaccinations protect us, our patients and our communities,鈥 said Richard Ellison, MD, professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology. 鈥淣ot everybody gets the flu but when one does it can be a very severe illness. If you haven鈥檛 had it before doesn鈥檛 mean you can鈥檛 get in the future.鈥
John P. Haran, MD, PhD, associate professor of emergency medicine and microbiology & physiological systems and clinical director of the Center for Microbiome Research, has been awarded a 2019 Alzheimer鈥檚 Association research grant to support research into how the intestinal microbiome differs in Alzheimer鈥檚 patients and whether imbalances associate with memory decline. Dr. Haran will receive approximately $150,000 over three years.