The Office of Faculty Development has awarded Mutual Mentoring Grants to ten teams and four individual faculty for 2020-21.
2020-21 Mutual Mentoring Team Grant Recipients:
Bio Learn Mentoring Group
College of Natural Sciences
Team Leader: Kari Loomis, lecturer, biology
A group of biology faculty members expanding their existing learning community by creating focused mentoring groups and offering professional development in STEM education.
The American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) recently announced that Alice Cheung, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, will receive the , made every other year to “a plant scientist whose work both illuminates the present and suggests paths to enlighten the future.â€
, an assistant professor of and affiliated faculty at the , has recently been named one of twelve Kluge Fellows at the .
A doctoral candidate in UMass Boston’s who is currently engaged in developing outreach material related to stress associated with the COVID-19 crisis has received the 2020 from Division 12 of the American Psychological Association. Bryan Balvaneda is in his sixth year at UMass Boston.
AMHERST, Mass. – Answering an urgent call for assistance from regional health care systems, a volunteer team of scientists at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Amherst is preparing, testing and delivering thousands of vials of viral transport media, a chemical solution needed for COVID-19 diagnostic testing. Their work is having a statewide impact.
The School of Public Health and Health Sciences (SPHHS) will hold its on Tuesday, April 14 in a virtual format that allows for remote participation. The annual event serves as an opportunity for the campus community to learn more about the research and practice conducted by SPHHS students.
In lieu of live poster presentations, students submitted abstracts to participate in the event. Abstracts will be collected into a book and posted online prior to the event.
AMHERST, Mass. — As campuses nationwide responded to the global coronavirus crisis by canceling events and transitioning to remote learning, an important opportunity for students studying race and its significance in America to gather and connect at a symposium held at a historically significant location was off the table.
AMHERST, Mass. – The Â鶹ÊÓƵ Amherst (CEE) has launched a new series of case studies designed to explore the business rationale and goals of companies when adopting inclusive policies and practices, to assess the impact of the policies and practices and to provide insight for employers who might learn from the experiences of innovators. The series will also serve learning goals for students and other relevant practitioners.
AMHERST, Mass. – In a new investigation into how applying common privacy algorithms can cause inequities for minority populations and other groups, a team led by Gerome Miklau at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Amherst’s College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) explored such potential effects on results from data of the U.S. Census Bureau and other institutions.
AMHERST, Mass. – As health care workers battle the COVID-19 pandemic on the front lines, they currently face a nationwide shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE), including face coverings of all types.