Recent UMass Boston alum Joseph Farah ‘21 has won the prestigious LeRoy Apker award from the American Physical Society (APS), the highest honor awarded to undergraduate physics students in the United States, for his contributions to the Event Horizon Telescope’s (EHT) ongoing efforts to image the Galactic Center. Farah developed the selective dynamical imaging method with applications for studying rapidly-varying black holes.
Some stories need thousands of words. They are allowed to use six.
That is the challenge posed to UMass Boston students by the Creative Writing program, which makes a campus-wide call for six-word stories every fall. On Thursday, after receiving over 150 submissions for the 2021 contest, students and faculty came together on a beautiful afternoon at the Fox Point Pavilion to celebrate the campus’ writers and announce one that stood out from all the rest.
“Medium Rare dates Medium, Well Done.”
When you think of the art scene in Boston, maybe the first thing that comes to mind is the MFA or the ICA.
As world leaders converged in Glasgow to take stock of progress on the Paris global climate change agreement, there were questions about the effectiveness of these international agreements.
What do Revere beach, Seaport Boulevard, the Boston Harbor Islands, and a UMass Boston classroom have in common?
“…To break the cycle;”
“…to be a role model for my sister;”
“…to build a better life for my family;”
“…to make changes in the world.”
UMass Boston has partnered with the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) and Wheels, the leading last-mile, shared electric mobility platform, to offer hybrid micromobility devices—popularly refered to as e-bikes—on campus.
Imagine that a grasshopper is sitting on a lawn. It jumps. What is the probability that it lands back on the lawn?
AMHERST, Mass. – The University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Institute for Applied Life Sciences (IALS) has announced that six campus research teams have been named recipients of the 3rd annual Manning/IALS Innovation Awards.