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The WooHealth Hackathon taking place at UMass Medical School on Friday, Nov. 15, and Saturday, Nov. 16, will bring together students from nine Worcester colleges and universities for the city's first-of-its-kind collaboration to improve public health.

BOSTON — UMass President Marty Meehan has been appointed to a three-year term on The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) Board of Directors, the association announced at its 132nd Annual Meeting Monday. Meehan will serve as a Board Member-at-Large until November 2022.

AMHERST, Mass. – A team of researchers at the �鶹��Ƶ Amherst headed by Blair Perot, professor of mechanical and industrial engineering, is developing new open source computer software for the combined simulation and control co-design of floating offshore wind turbines using a two-year, $1.175 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded UMass Boston a two-year $300,000 ADVANCE Catalyst grant to conduct a self-assessment regarding gender and racial equity among science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) faculty at UMass Boston, with the ultimate goal of developing a Five-Year Strategic Plan for STEM Faculty Equity.

Assistant Professor of Nursing Lisa Sundean, PhD, RN has received the Excellence in Policy Award from Nursing Outlook, the journal of the American Academy of Nursing.
 
Sundean’s article,  was published in 2017. This very competitive award is chosen from all articles in the journal for that particular year. The decision is made by a panel of experts, and there is no nomination process.
 

The Office of the Provost recently announced the winners of the Office of Undergraduate Research’s 2019 Fall Stipend Initiative. The overall quality of all the applications demonstrated the high level of undergraduate research conducted on our campus. Twenty-eight faculty members volunteered to review proposals and countless more continue to serve as mentors.

This year’s winners are:

Devin Cannistraro (Computer & Information Science), Supervisor: Professor Iren Valova - “Improving the Learning Accuracy of Convolutional Neural Networks”

A report in the journal , published by the American Society for Microbiology, describes a prototype vaccine candidate for Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the bacterium that causes gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted infection that affects men and women. Untreated, gonorrhea can cause infertility in women.

UMass Law ranked among the nation’s top 41 law schools for privacy law according to the International Association of Privacy Professionals. The IAPP published its first-ever ranking of privacy education in U.S. law schools based on its national review of law school curricula. UMass Law appeared in Tier 2, along with Harvard, Boston College, Boston University, and 26 other law schools, based on its Information Privacy Law course, an online course offered each summer.

A healthy school climate and a coordinated strategy for improving social and emotional learning reduce behavior problems among students and improve educational outcomes, researcher  told educators at the ’s annual Panasuk Symposium.

AMHERST, Mass. – In Nature, says Greg Grason at the �鶹��Ƶ Amherst, “Nobody except physics and geometry” tells molecules how to organize into the types of complex soft crystals that form in butterfly wings, for example, allowing them to selectively reflect different wavelengths of light. He and other materials scientists who study such self-assembling structures are often fascinated and inspired by them, he adds, “and we’re starting to learn how and why they are spontaneously form way they do.”