- UMass Boston Introduces Fully Online Modality for Graduate Business ProgramsNew online modality enhances flexibility and student success.
- Red Sox Manager Alex Cora to Serve as UMass Boston Sport Leadership and Administration Program’s 2024 Executive in ResidenceWorld Series champion manager will provide mentorship for students in the BA program sponsored by New Balance during spring and fall semesters
- Mayor Wu Announces $21 Million for Behavioral Health Services and Programming for Youth and FamiliesBoston Public Health Commission and Boston Public Schools are partnering with local universities and community partners like UMass Boston to add more behavioral health specialists, improve BPS policies and systems, and develop a more diverse workforce to serve youth in Boston.
- UMass Boston Hosts the Inauguration of Chancellor Marcelo Suárez-Orozco on April 5Chancellor Marcelo Suárez-Orozco is set to be officially installed as the 9th chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Boston in a distinguished Inauguration Ceremony scheduled for Friday, April 5.
- UMass President Marty Meehan Delivers State of the University MessageUniversity of Massachusetts President Marty Meehan this week delivered his annual State of the University message, calling for a three-fold expansion of enrollment in the university’s early college programs over the next five years.
- Uncharted - Healey Library AdventureEach month we're highlighting uncharted locations at UMass Boston! This month's hidden gem is the Healey Library.
- Businesses Encouraged to Submit Projects for BEST Boston 2024 Summer SessionBEST (Business Engagement for Students) Boston, a pioneering initiative at UMass Boston’s College of Management, is extending a special invitation to local Boston-area businesses and organizations to participate in its upcoming summer session.
- Radium Girls, the True Story of a Fight for Justice, Opens April 4A century ago, radium was nothing short of magic. Marie Curie was curing cancer with it. Industry jumped at commercializing its luminescence, wonderous products that “shine in the dark”. In Newark, New Jersey, the U.S. Radium Company hired young women to paint fine details to make glow-in-the-dark clocks. To do this work, they used their lips to get precise points on paintbrushes wet with radioactive paint. It seemed like a good job, on the forefront of innovation, at first. Until mysterious and deadly illness came.
- Physics Professor Mohamed Amine Gharbi Receives NSF CAREER AwardAward will further the study of the dynamics of living active materials at structured complex fluid interfaces.
- UMass Boston Earns Silver STARS Rating for Sustainability AchievementsUMass Boston recently earned a silver Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS) rating from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE). The STARS system is a transparent, self-reporting framework for colleges and universities to measure their sustainability performance based on environmental, social, and economic dimensions of sustainability.
- College of Management Prioritizes Student Success by Appointing New Director of Career ServicesThe College of Management is proud to announce a significant investment in the future of its students by appointing a dedicated Director of Career Services. This strategic move underscores the institution's unwavering commitment to empowering students with the tools and resources necessary to excel in their professional endeavors.
- U.S. News Ranks UMass Boston Online Programs Among the Nation’s BestUMass Boston’s online bachelor’s degree and online graduate programs, including the MBA and master’s in education, are listed among the nation’s best in the U.S. News and World Report 2024 Best Online Programs rankings, released this week.
- Professor Fulton Receives National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing FellowshipEnglish Professor and Director of the MFA in Creative Writing Program John Fulton has been selected by the National Endowment for the Arts as one of 35 writers to receive an FY 2024 Creative Writing Fellowship of $25,000. This year’s fellowships are in fiction and creative nonfiction and enable the recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career development.
- Physics Professor Receives $608K in NCI Funding to Develop Medical Device for Screening and Treating Oral CancersProject Aims to Improve Health Outcomes in Rural South Asian Communities
- Jean Winsor Receives 2024 Policy Award from the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental DisabilitiesWinsor will be honored at a ceremony at the 148th AAIDD Annual Meeting in June for her outstanding contributions to the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).
- NSF Awards $1M Grant to Enhance Gender, Racial Equity among STEM FacultyThe National Science Foundation (NSF) ADVANCE program has awarded a three-year $1 million grant to a multidisciplinary team of five UMass Boston faculty members.
- Boston Public Schools, UMass Boston Partner to Establish First University-Assisted Community Hub SchoolNew Collaboration Will Transform McCormack School on Columbia Point
- Open Forum on Advancing Health Equity Highlights the Power of CollaborationIn January, the Massachusetts Business Roundtable (MBR) held a virtual open forum to discuss the work of the Health Equity Compact, a growing group of over 80 leaders of color across Massachusetts. UMass Boston Provost Joseph Berger joined the roundtable to discuss how policymakers, employers, health care providers, insurers and others can work together toward advancing health equity.
- College of Management Announces New Cohort of Student AmbassadorsThe College of Management team is thrilled to introduce eleven exceptional undergraduate students who will be representing the College as student ambassadors for the next year. These students were hand selected by Dean Venky Venkatachalam based on their outstanding leadership, dedication, and enthusiasm to make a positive impact.
- 3rd Annual International Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility: Shaping Sustainable FuturesUMass Boston’s College of Management and their partner EM Normandie successfully co-hosted the 3rd Annual International Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility. The conference, held October 10-11, 2023, brought together thought leaders, researchers, and industry experts from around the world to explore innovative research and approaches to corporate sustainability.
- Institute for Early Education Announces New Cohort of Early Education Leadership FellowsThe Institute for Early Education Leadership and Innovation (the Early Ed Leadership Institute) at UMass Boston is pleased to announce the selection of five Early Education Leadership Fellows for the 2023-2025 cohort of its Post-Master’s Certificate Program in Early Education Research, Policy, and Practice (PMC).
- UMass Boston PhD Candidate Stephanie Crawford Honored by the City of BostonUMass Boston Early Childhood Education PhD candidate Stephanie Crawford has been named a 2023 Extraordinary Woman by the City of Boston and a 2023 Commonwealth Heroine by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for her work in community and family services, advocacy, and support post pregnancy baby loss.
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