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UMass Boston raised $23.8 million in fiscal year 2019, setting a new annual record for fundraising in the university’s 55-year history. The previous record was $17.6 million.

The fundraising total more than doubled the $10.5 million campus goal set by the UMass System and nearly tripled the amount raised in fiscal year 2018. UMass Boston this past year also completed its $100 million fundraising campaign, Just Imagine, which raised $114.6 million and was the most ambitious campaign in the university’s history.

A group of UMass Medical School students have dedicated themselves to guiding and advising teen mothers. The Mentors for Young Mothers student group facilitates health education workshops and discussions at residential programs for teen mothers in Worcester.

“Mentors for Young Mothers has been the highlight of my medical school experience, and the lessons I have learned from working with this often overlooked population are invaluable,” said Emily Adler, a second-year student in the School of Medicine.

Midway through her junior season with the UMass Lowell softball team, shortstop  got a phone call from a River Hawk alumna.

“You realize you’re leading the nation in hitting, don’t you?” the former player asked her.

As a managing director at BlackRock, a global investment management firm and the world’s largest asset manager, Ludwig Marek ’98 appreciates the value of data.

It’s something the Swiss native learned almost 25 years ago as a member of the UMass Lowell men’s hockey team. 

“I remember our coach, Bruce Crowder, had a saying: The numbers don’t lie,” says Marek, who recalls Crowder waving his stat sheet at him and pointing out things like penalty minutes and plus-minuses.

AMHERST, Mass. – An analysis of policy research on nearly 50 years of school vaccine mandates has found that while vaccine requirements are commonly considered to have made a major, if not essential, contribution to vaccine coverage in the United States, the causal relations between mandates and population vaccination remains unclear. The findings were published online this week by the Canadian Medical Association Journal’s .

AMHERST, Mass. – Foods fried in vegetable oil are popular worldwide, but research about the health effects of this cooking technique has been largely inconclusive and focused on healthy people. For the first time, UMass Amherst food scientists set out to examine the impact of frying oil consumption on inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and colon cancer, using animal models.

AMHERST, Mass. – A recent study by economists at the �鶹��Ƶ Amherst has – for the first time – found a link between exposure to air pollution during early childhood with the development of arthritis later in adult life.

UMass Amherst ranks No. 65 nationally and 159th worldwide according to the 2019-20 evaluation of higher education institutions by the  (CWUR).

The rankings place UMass Amherst among the top 0.8 percent of universities worldwide in a survey that assessed more than 20,000 universities. The methodology, according to CWUR, focuses on quality of education, alumni employment, quality of faculty and research performance. Equal emphasis is placed on the learning environment and research.

Julie Bowditch, advancement officer for community fundraising at UMass Medical School and UMass Memorial Medical Center, has been named one of the Worcester Business Journal’s 40 Under Forty Class of 2019.

Eighth grader Nate wants to talk about planets. But his teacher, a freshman in UMass Boston’s , is trying to get through a class activity about social awareness. She tells him that maybe they can talk about planets once this activity is over. A short time later, another Honors College freshman teaching the class notices that Nate isn’t participating.

“Hey, Nate, do you have any thoughts about this?” the second freshman asks.

“I do not get this. I don’t get this. I don’t know what’s happening,” Nate says.