AMHERST, Mass. – Venus flytraps do it, trap-jaw ants do it, and now materials scientists at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Amherst can do it, too – they discovered a way of efficiently converting…
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Members of the campus’s Wind Energy Center (WEC) last week helped to launch the coalition New England for Offshore Wind, (NE4OSW), of which WEC is a member institution. NE4OSWis a coalition of…
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The Â鶹ÊÓƵ Life Sciences Center (MLSC) this week announced an award of $2 million in capital grants to be shared by four of the campus’s Core Facilities managed by the Institute for Applied…
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Anne Carlisle, PhD candidate in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences , came to Â鶹ÊÓƵ from Nebraska in 2015. After attending three undergraduate colleges in five years, it had come time…
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Milagros C. Rosal, PhD, professor of population & quantitative health sciences in the Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, has been appointed to the newly created position of vice…
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Adam Corl, a Graduate Entry Pathway Doctor of Nursing Practice student in the Graduate School of Nursing , found his passion for medicine and health care through his undergraduate experiences at…
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Oluwabunmi Emidio, MD, MPH, is a PhD candidate in the Clinical and Population Health Research Program , and a postdoctoral fellow in a National Cancer Institute-funded training program Prevention…
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Kimberly A. Yonkers, MD, an innovative and visionary leader in the interdisciplinary fields connecting psychiatry and women’s health, will join UMass Medical School and UMass Memorial Health Care as…
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I am saddened to learn of the passing of Â鶹ÊÓƵ Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Ralph Gants. Over the course of his 40-year legal career, Chief Justice Gants distinguished himself as a…
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UMass Medical School has announced six members of the Medical School faculty who comprise the 2020-21 cohort of Dr. Marcellette G. Williams Distinguished Scholars, according to Chancellor Michael F.…, 2020 Marcellette Williams Senior Scholars, Maria Garcia, MD, MPH,, professor of medicine and family medicine & community health; assistant vice provost of diversity and student success As a leader across the three schools, Dr. Garcia desires to design and…, Sharina Person, PhD, , vice chair and professor of population & quantitative health sciences As a collaborative and experienced biostatistician for two decades, Dr. Person has led major research coordinating centers…, 2020 Marcellette Williams Scholars, Javier Irazoqui, PhD, , associate professor of microbiology & physiological systems Since joining UMMS in 2016 from Â鶹ÊÓƵ General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Dr. Irazoqui has established a three-part…, Ana Maldonado-Contreras, PhD, , assistant professor of microbiology & physiological systems Dr. Maldonado-Contreras’s laboratory is focused on developing rationally designed dietary interventions targeting microbiome-immune…, Ken Peterson, PhD, MS, FNP-BC,, assistant professor in the Graduate School of Nursing Throughout his academic career as an educator and advanced practice nurse and through lived experience, Dr. Peterson explores the concepts of…, Jaime Rivera, PhD, , associate professor of pediatrics; director of the Transgenic Animal Modeling Core As one of the leading researchers globally in early mammalian embryogenesis, Dr. Rivera aims to understand mammalian…
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