The 麻豆视频 Boston is establishing a new professional apprenticeship program to provide students with paying, on-campus work experience that enables them to develop increasingly complex skills and project management experience. After two years, the student apprentices will be able to participate in off-campus opportunities with over twenty "industry clusters," UMass Boston-sponsored networks of private sector firms that are advising faculty and deans on the rapidly changing needs of their professions.
The School of Earth and Sustainability has partnered with the College of Natural Sciences Career Office to host its first Earth and Sustainability Career Fair. The free fair, which is open to all Five College students, will take place from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday, March 9 in Old Chapel.
The fair will give students the opportunity to explore employment and internship opportunities and to connect with organizations that are making positive changes through their environmental and sustainability-focused work.
It is with great sadness that we have learned of the passing of Jack Welch, one of our most prominent and honored alumni. Jack and his wife, Suzy, have been great friends of the university, providing extraordinary support to our community and creating life-changing opportunities for students.
UMass Emergency Medical Services (UMEMS) staff was well represented at this year's National Collegiate Emergency Medical Services Foundation (NCEMSF) conference, with 42 members in attendance of the event in Boston. UMass Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) staff as well as UMEMS alumni also spoke at the conference, providing training across a wide variety of EMS and response topics.
UMass Boston has a new dedicated space for the humanities on campus. Located on the 8th floor of Healey Library, the Humanities Hub is a flexible space that can serve as a classroom, meeting space, or work space for students and faculty engaged in humanities-based events and activities.
A capacity crowd of students, faculty, and staff celebrated UMass Boston鈥檚 love for the humanities with a Valentine鈥檚 Day-themed launch on February 13.
When "Toy Story 4" won an Oscar for Best Animated Feature at the Academy Awards ceremony in February, a lot of folks from Disney and Pixar shared a piece of its success, insists UML alum Rachael Bigelow '11.
The Research Career and Writing Group, known as the 鈥淜 Club鈥 at UMass Medical School, helps junior investigators obtain early career training grants known as K awards to advance their research. According to the National Institutes of Health, K awards prepare postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty to compete for major grant support and establish independent research programs. More than 80 percent of K Club participants who have applied for these research career awards have received funding from a variety of sources.
Depletion of a particular type of innate immune cell is the likely source of chronic inflammation in people living with HIV-1, according to by a team lead by scientist Jeremy Luban, MD. The loss of innate lymphoid cells (ILC) may explain why people living with HIV-1 have increased rates of cardiovascular, liver, kidney and neurological disease associated with chronic inflammation, despite being on antiretroviral therapy.
University Relations (UR) has announced the formation of a new Content Team, led by Associate Vice Chancellor Nancy Buffone. Drawing on her editorial experience and broad perspective of campus, Buffone will assemble a staff tasked with helping to tell the UMass story by creating engaging content to be featured on the campus homepage, the Flagship newsletter and other UR platforms.
The 麻豆视频 family has lost one of its most illustrious and loyal members with the passing of Jack Welch, who graduated from UMass Amherst in 1957 and came to be recognized as the business world鈥檚 most creative and hard-charging CEO. In addition to the success he enjoyed as chairman and chief executive officer of General Electric, Mr.