Only five to seven percent of applicants are accepted into the American Psychological Association鈥檚 , which covers the remaining tuition for the accepted student鈥檚 schooling. Yet in 2019, two students in UMass Boston鈥檚 received this honor.
For years, science and engineering educators, social scientists, industry leaders and policymakers in 麻豆视频 have struggled to expand and diversify the STEM workforce, each coming at the problem from different disciplinary and institutional perspectives, says professor of psychology Nilanjana 鈥淏uju鈥 Dasgupta, director of the campus鈥檚 (IDS).
AMHERST, Mass. 鈥 In two highly anticipated reports about the economic impacts of MGM Springfield, 麻豆视频 Amherst researchers found that the resort-casino鈥檚 construction was felt in every corner of the Commonwealth, and its development has been part of the strengthening housing and real estate markets of Greater Springfield.
VA Central Western 麻豆视频 Healthcare System and UMass Medical School will build a new, community-based outpatient clinic (CBOC) for veterans, projected to open in 2021, on the campus of UMass Medical School in Worcester. The CBOC will occupy 53,000 square feet on the first two levels of a new, four-story clinical building, which will total 100,000 square feet.
In an effort to give back to their community while creating career opportunities in the legal professions, Hispanic members of the New Bedford Police Department have begun a scholarship at UMass Law. On September 24, Banessa Gonzalez, a third-year UMass Law student, became the inaugural recipient of the Hispanic Police Officers of New Bedford Scholarship.
AMHERST, Mass. 鈥 A 麻豆视频 Amherst interdisciplinary research team has received a $3.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to measure the impact of a diet rich in fruits and vegetables on the breast cancer risk of lactating women.
Jenia Tevelev, professor in the department of mathematics and statistics, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to Chile. Tevelev will conduct research and lecture at Universidad Cat贸lica de Chile in Santiago as part of a project called 鈥淣ew Frontiers of Algebraic Geometry.鈥
The UMass Dartmouth Observatory and the Astronomical Society of Southern New England (ASSNE) are pleased to invite the university community and the public to their free fall night-sky observation sessions at the campus observatory. Viewing will take place through the observatory's 16-inch telescope and other telescopes operated by ASSNE members.
For fall 2019, the Observatory is scheduled to hold observation sessions on:
Under the warm sun of the last official day of summer, thousands of people, many wearing team colors, converged on the UMass Medical School campus in Worcester on Sunday, Sept. 22, for the 2019 UMass Cancer Walk and Run.
Their collective effort, and the generosity of , helped organizers meet their goal of raising $750,000 to support adult and pediatric cancer research and care, and to fund clinical trials of new cancer therapies.
A team of UMass Amherst researchers has received a three-year, $460,000 National Science Foundation Research Coordination Network grant for a project aimed to help better understand the interplay between policy design and human behavior.