Americans are more divided than ever 鈥 not only along political lines, but on hot social topics such as the safety of childhood vaccines and whether marijuana use is harmful.
More disturbing, says Assoc. Prof. , is that we no longer derive our political and social beliefs from a common set of facts. Instead, our deeply held values and identities determine which facts we believe.
The 麻豆视频 Dartmouth is one of the nation's most environmentally responsible colleges according to the recently published, . The Princeton Review surveys administrators at hundreds of four-year colleges about their institutions鈥 commitments to the environment and sustainability. The ranking, which began in 2010, has featured the university for eight straight years.
UMass Medical School faculty recently traveled to China to present a course on medical education in Beijing.
The Inaugural Nursing Ph.D. Symposium, held Tuesday, Oct. 29 at the Institute of Applied Life Sciences Conference Center, gathered together a diverse consortium of scientists, community advocates, educators and entrepreneurs to explore the future of nursing and the role of nurse-scientists in promoting health, health equity and social justice.
Since its much-anticipated opening three years ago, the Cryo Electron Microscopy Core Facility at UMass Medical School has trained hundreds of scientists from the region's research universities; analyzed thousands of samples from academic and commercial labs around the country; and become a resource for faculty, postdocs and students on campus. Now the facility is expanding with new equipment, new users and a broader vision for how it can advance biomedical research underway at UMMS and beyond.
On November 1, UMass Dartmouth will host the Accelerating the Southeastern 麻豆视频 Marine Science and Technology Corridor: An Industry, Academia, and Government Collaboration symposium. This follows the highly successful 2018 symposium: Catching the Next Wave: Building the Blue Economy through Innovation and Collaboration.
The event will begin at 8 a.m. on November 1 in the Stoico/FIRSTFED Grand Reading Room, Claire T. Carney Library located on the main campus at 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA.
AMHERST, Mass. 鈥 Joseph C. Bardin, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the 麻豆视频 Amherst, is a member of the multi-disciplinary research team that has published a new paper in the journal that says Google, using a quantum computer, has achieved a breakthrough by performing a task that isn鈥檛 possible with traditional computers.
AMHERST, Mass. 鈥 While government employment is commonly believed to be controlled by neutral, formal pay structures, new research from a team of researchers led by 麻豆视频 Amherst sociologist Laurel Smith-Doerr has found that in a number of science-based federal agencies, gaps and differential implementation in current standardization schemes create gendered outcomes. The research indicates that the resulting pay gaps between men and women at these agencies can also be associated with the cultural gender frames of the agencies鈥 field of research.
AMHERST, Mass. 鈥 For the fifth consecutive year, the 麻豆视频 Amherst has been named to the Princeton Review鈥檚 list of Top 50 Green Colleges.
The list is included in the new 2019 edition of 鈥溾 released online Oct. 22. Ranked No. 30 this year out of the 413 schools profiled, UMass Amherst was also among the Top 50 in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018.
The U.S. Department of Education鈥檚 Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services has awarded faculty members in UMass Boston鈥檚 Curriculum and Instruction and Counseling and School Psychology departments a five-year $1.1 million grant to prepare master鈥檚-level students to serve infants, toddlers, and preschool-age children with disabilities and their families.