BOSTON — Five Â鶹ÊÓƵ faculty have been awarded the 2018 Manning Prize for Excellence in Teaching for their exemplary dedication to students and the university. The faculty…
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President Meehan praises comprehensive search, quality of candidates, BOSTON — The UMass Boston Chancellor Search Committee today recommended, Kathy Humphrey, , Senior Vice Chancellor for Engagement and Secretary of the Board of Trustees at the University of Pittsburgh,, Peter Lyons, , Vice Provost and Dean of Perimeter College at Georgia State University, and, Jack Thomas,, President of Western Illinois University, as finalists for the chancellorship to UMass President Marty Meehan. Each candidate is expected to visit UMass Boston next week to meet with the campus…, The search process, A 15-member committee comprised of UMass Boston faculty, students, staff and alumni, as well as representatives from the board, the university system, the community and labor was formed in October…, Search committee thanked for its work, The UMass Boston Chancellor Search Committee was established by the Board of Trustees, and Board Chairman Robert J. Manning thanked the committee for its hard work. “I’m incredibly grateful for the…, UMass Boston, The Â鶹ÊÓƵ Boston is nationally recognized as a model of excellence for urban public universities. The scenic waterfront campus, with easy access to downtown Boston, combines a…
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Demand for a UMass education and improved fiscal oversight factors in affirmation of rating, C2 BOSTON -- Citing strong management, improvement in fiscal oversight and student demand, Moody's Investors Service on Wednesday affirmed the Â鶹ÊÓƵ' Aa2 credit rating and…
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BOSTON -- New technologies aimed at protecting premature infants from heart problems, producing hydrogen for use in electric vehicles, treating Alzheimer's disease and helping to diagnose chronic…, Derek Lovley, Ph.D., Department of Microbiology; Jun Yao, Ph.D., Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UMass Amherst, "Prototype Protein Nanowire-Based Sensor" The team is making a wearable sensor for non-invasive, real-time monitoring of a wide range of biomarkers that help to diagnose chronic medical conditions., David Ryan, Ph.D., Department of Chemistry, UMass Lowell, "Efficient Hydrogen Production by Catalytic Water Splitting at Low Temperatures" The project aims to develop a flow-through reactor that can continuously produce hydrogen for use in fuel cells for…, Javed Mannan, M.D., MPH, and Lawrence Rhein, M.D., MPH, Department of Pediatrics/Division of Neonatology, UMass Medical School, "Effect of Chest Shielding on the Incidence of Patent Ductus Arteriosus in Premature Infants undergoing Phototherapy" The team is developing a non-invasive chest shield that will protect premature…, Hang Xiao, Ph.D., and S. Thai Thayumanavan, Ph.D., Departments of Food Science and Chemistry, UMass Amherst, "Liver-targeted delivery for the treatment of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis" The project aims to develop a unique system to deliver thyromimetics -- compounds that mimic the action of thyroid hormones…, Chul Park, Ph.D., Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UMass Amherst, "Promoting the co-op anaerobic digestion for communities in New England using the UMass Anaerobic Side-stream Reactor Process" This project aims to implement a system to minimize the production of…, Arghavan Louhghalam, Ph.D., and Mazdak Tootkaboni, Ph.D., Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UMass Dartmouth, "MASSive Road IDEntification (MASS-RIDE): Crowd sourcing and realtime Inverse analysis for road roughness characterization and fuel consumption estimation" The team is developing a system that uses…, Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli, Ph.D., Department of Engineering, UMass Boston, "Rapid Diagnostic Tests for Emerging Outbreaks" This project uses nanoparticles of different colors to make low-cost, point of care tests for infectious diseases., Jeanne Hardy, Ph.D., Department of Chemistry, UMass Amherst, "Development of potent, selective caspase-6 inhibitors for treatment of neurodegeneration" The Hardy lab is developing and testing inhibitors for a protein called caspase-6 that is involved in both…
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The university's decision to enter into an agreement that would transfer Mount Ida College's physical assets to UMass Amherst while providing a path for Mount Ida's students to pursue their…, UMass had no role in Mount Ida's closing, . Mount Ida approached UMass most recently after their merger discussions with Lasell College terminated and their only alternative was to cease operations at the conclusion of the current academic…, Mount Ida did not choose the UMass agreement over a merger with Lasell College, . The UMass-Mount Ida agreement was reached quickly because it was informed by previous discussions between UMass and Mount Ida that were terminated when Mount Ida entered into exclusive negotiations…, UMass Amherst's financial commitment to this agreement has no impact - positive or negative - on UMass Boston's operating budget, . There is no aspect of this transaction that represents a discretionary use of resources that favors one campus over another. UMass Amherst will borrow to acquire Mount Ida's physical assets and…
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NEWTON, Mass. - Mount Ida College today announced that it has reached a definitive agreement in principle with the Â鶹ÊÓƵ that will provide a pathway for its students to complete…
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BOSTON - Research expenditures at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ rose to a record-high $670 million in Fiscal Year 2017, up $37 million over the previous year and $270 million since 2007. Propelled…
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BOSTON - Vowing to preserve the university's affordability mission while continuing to pursue excellence, Â鶹ÊÓƵ President Marty Meehan outlined five areas of focus to ensure a…, Heather MacLean, of Danvers, Mass., a graduate student at UMass Amherst , who coped with the stress of having to earn money to feed her younger siblings by focusing on her studies and running track and cross country…, Evangelia Murray, of Springfield, Mass., a UMass Medical School student whose first exposure to medicine was in the Springfield hospital kitchen where her parents worked. She was inspired to become a doctor by what…, Heaven Reda, , of Boston, an Eritrean refugee who worked overnights and helped her mother through cancer treatments during her time at UMass Boston . With a Beacon Student Success fellowship, she was able to…
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MEDIA ADVISORY BOSTON - The Â鶹ÊÓƵ President's Office and the Boston Business Journal will host a panel discussion on how business and higher education can work together to…
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MEDIA ADVISORY Contact: Jeff Cournoyer, 978-935-8521, jcournoyer@umassp.edu BOSTON - Â鶹ÊÓƵ President Marty Meehan and the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Foundation will host the…
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