The Jake Kennedy ALS Fund, launched last month by Jake and Sparky Kennedy, supports research at UMass Medical School to find a cure for ALS. A Jan. 20 column by Kevin Cullen details the man behind the fund, recently diagnosed with ALS, and the kindness he and his wife have shown since launching Christmas in the City 30 years ago.
Four teams of UMass Medical School students have been awarded Martin Luther King Jr. Semester of Service Awards to implement community service programs. They will use the $500 awards to help improve access to cervical cancer screening, train youth in a lifesaving emergency intervention, integrate medical health records into free medical care, and expand tutoring opportunities for high school students.
Five Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning (LARP) students were recently awarded the Jury Prize in the 2020 Edmund N. Bacon Urban Design Awards Student Competition.
The interdisciplinary team of graduate students; Keith Benoit, Kinjal Manish Desai, Tianyi Guan, Christopher Ramage and Peter Wackernagel; was one of four winning teams out of 2500 registered teams from all over the world.
Mathematics professor Andrea R. Nahmod has been named a principal investigator for a Simons Foundation Collaboration in Mathematical and Physical Sciences that will involve leading mathematics and physics researchers in the United States and Europe in a systematic, coordinated study of wave turbulence.
The four-year, $8 million grant with possibility of extension is a collaboration directed by at the Courant Institute at New York University (NYU).
NEWTON, Mass.&²Ô²ú²õ±è;– CoachUp, the nation’s leading private coaching provider, has relocated its headquarters to the innovation and collaboration space on the Mount Ida Campus of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Amherst.
AMHERST, Mass. – Geochemist Isaac Larsen at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Amherst has been granted a Fulbright U.S. Scholar award and will spend the coming spring semester at the University of Salzburg, Austria.
"Our current system of expiration dates isn't working," insists Isenberg sophomore Harsha Prakki, explaining that arbitrary sell-by dates can't take food storage and transport conditions into account. "People throw away way too much food."
"We Shall Overcome" featuring Damien Sneed brings the spoken works of Martin Luther King, Jr. together with a rich history of African-American music on Tuesday, Jan. 28 at 7:30 p.m. in the UMass Amherst Fine Arts Center Concert Hall.
Shawn Shimpach, associate professor of communication and director of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Multicultural Film Festival, has edited a new collection of television studies scholarship, "The Routledge Companion to Global Television." The volume is now available in hardback and e-book versions.
Scott Jackson, extension associate professor in the department of environmental conservation and Charlie Schweik, professor at the School of Public Policy and the department of environmental conservation, have received a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for a project that uses unmanned aerial systems (UAS) to develop methods to assess the ecological integrity of Â鶹ÊÓƵ salt marshes.