BOSTON – All four Â鶹ÊÓƵ undergraduate campuses in Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth and Lowell this Fall welcomed 66 community college graduates who are the first to be awarded the UMass Community College Advantage Scholarship, a new two-year $10,000 scholarship given to students in the top 10 percent of their class who enroll at UMass.
UMass Chan Medical School researcher Victor R. Ambros, PhD, will share the , the very short, single-stranded RNA molecules that are now understood to play a critical role in post-transcriptional gene regulation. The announcement was made this morning at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. It is the second time that a UMass Chan scientist has been recognized by the Nobel Assembly. UMass Chan Distinguished Professor Craig C.