AMHERST, Mass. – The international team of astronomers of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) mission – including eight from the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Amherst – who earlier this year unveiled the first direct image of a supermassive black hole and its shadow, were awarded the this month by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation founded by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, among others.
U.S. Â鶹ÊÓƵ & World Report 2020 College Rankings released this week recognize UMass Dartmouth for the upward social mobility of its students and again rank the university as a National University. UMass Dartmouth, the only nationally ranked Â鶹ÊÓƵ doctoral research university located south of Boston, first moved into the national category in the 2017 edition of the rankings.
Students will get a chance to embark on a visual tour of our solar system and beyond when a new astronomical observatory opens on South Campus this fall.
The facility, which is scheduled to be completed by mid-November, will feature a Celestron 14-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope on a heavy-duty computerized mount. It will provide high-resolution views of the craters and lava plains on the moon, the satellites of Jupiter and its cloud belts and the rings of Saturn, as well as star clusters, galaxies and nebulae light-years away.
The UMass Medical School community will come together this week to celebrate student and faculty accomplishments and officially launch the new academic year. The signature event, Convocation, will be held in the Albert Sherman Center auditorium on Thursday, Sept. 12, at 4 p.m., when Chancellor Michael F. Collins will deliver his annual address and present the 2019 Chancellor’s Medals for excellence in teaching, scholarship, service and clinical excellence.
UMass Boston major and student Joseph Farah is sharing in a $3 million Breakthrough Prize for being part of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration that took the first image of a black hole in April. When the image was recorded, Farah was the only undergraduate on the 347-member team.
Interim Dean has put to tell people about climate change, and he’s let kids do the talking through their artwork on the T. Last month the National Science Foundation awarded a four-year, $3 million grant to Chen,
Thirty graduate students marked an educational and professional milestone at their (GEP) Pinning Ceremony at UMass Medical School on Monday, Sept. 9. The members of the GEP Class of 2022 took an oath to practice their profession of nursing faithfully and received pins unique to the GSN symbolizing their entry into the profession.
By facilitating direct transactions and interactions between parties, companies like Airbnb, Uber and Facebook are some of the best known – and most profitable – multisided platforms (MSPs) around.
But what about traditional companies that simply provide products and services to customers? How are they supposed to compete on this relatively new and rapidly growing MSP playing field? Or should they even try?
For seven years, the program has shown that children’s artwork is effective in teaching adults in the Lowell area about climate science.
has been named the inaugural J. Keith Motley Endowed Chair for Sport Leadership and Administration at UMass Boston. Cooper taught for six years at the University of Connecticut’s Neag School of Education, where he specialized in sport management, gender and race in sport, and higher education.