- Climate Justice Research Grant Winners AnnouncedThe Sustainable Solutions Lab at UMass Boston has awarded two research grants to project teams that will focus on groups that are often overlooked when evaluating the impacts of climate change.
- UMass Boston Experts Predict Domestic Policies Under the Biden-Harris AdministrationThe McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies hosted their second of three virtual panels discussing what we can expect from the new Biden-Harris Administration last week.
- UMass Boston and Community Leaders Discuss How University Can Best ‘Stand with the City’More than 100 people gathered virtually on Thursday, February 18 to hear UMass Boston faculty and organizational leaders across Boston deepen the dialogue around how the university can best live up to its founders’ charge to "stand with the city."
- UMass Boston College of Nursing and Health Sciences Faculty Install a Grace Trail® on the HarborWalkAssociate Professor of Exercise and Health Sciences Sarah M. Camhi and Senior Lecturer in Nursing Linda Chiofar have transformed UMass Boston’s stretch of the HarborWalk into a meditative Grace Trail®.
- Biology Professor Develops Interactive Website Analyzing COVID-19 DataDuring quarantine, UMass Boston Associate Professor of Biology Liam Revell decided to take on a new project: develop a website that enables users to interact with COVID-19 data.
- Science and Policy Impact: Maria Ivanova Appointed to the World Climate Research Programme Joint Scientific CommitteeDirector of UMass Boston’s Center for Governance and Sustainability and McCormack Graduate School Associate Professor Maria Ivanova has been appointed as a four-year member of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Joint Scientific Committee (JSC).
- Report Finds Disparities in Physical, Mental Health Effects of COVID-19A newly released report by UMass Boston researchers finds that the coronavirus pandemic has affected Bostonian’s health in multiple ways that vary across differences in race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and family composition.
- Living in Boston During COVID-19 Report Assesses Vaccination HesitationA newly released National Science Foundation-funded report by UMass Boston researchers finds that 1 in 5 Bostonians plan to not get vaccinated, nearly half of Black Bostonians say they have little or no interest in receiving the COVID-19 vaccine when it becomes available, and more than a quarter of
- New UTeach Boston Initiative Partners UMB Students with Classrooms in MalaysiaWhile the COVID-19 pandemic forced teachers across the country to adapt to remote learning environments, the UTeach Boston STEM teacher education program at UMass Boston is preparing future educators to teach virtually with an international twist.
- UMass Boston Researchers Receive Grant from NIH to Study Memory in Young ChildrenUMass Boston Professors of Psychology Zsuzsa Kaldy and Erik Blaser were awarded a three-year, $457,061 R15 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support their work studying the role of effort in visual working memory in infants and young toddlers.
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