South Coast Working text over an image of a fishing boat in the Boston Harbor

“South Coast Working” is a new podcast from the Arnold M.

Lara Matta has been announced as the new assistant director of the Translation Center of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

As academics continue to study the ways mis- and disinformation enter conversations on social media, one member of the UMass Amherst faculty suggests they step back and observe the issue as part of a complete media “ecosystem” – one which includes the relationships between both user-generated social media and professionally-created news media.

Half of a bench is seen on a beach with the bottom half underwater due to high sea level
Photo by Corinna Behrens, courtesy of Pixabay.

Sea-level rise is a global reality. In the San Francisco Bay Area, sea levels are estimated to rise by almost seven feet within the next 80 years.

Adrienne Silver (graduate student at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth) & Lukas Lobert (graduate student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program)
Adrienne Silver (graduate student at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth) & Lukas Lobert (graduate student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program) work on getting the CTD ready for deployment while the sun sets (photo courtesy A. Gangopadhyay).

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The Health Resources and Services Administration/Maternal Child Health Bureau has re-funded UMass Medical School for another five years to support new and ongoing efforts to promote healthy weight among children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD).

Each year, the Office of Outreach Programs at UMass Medical School hosts high achieving students from backgrounds underrepresented in health care and biomedical sciences for a rigorous academic immersion which exposes them to the real world of medical careers and how to prepare for them. This summer, the High School Health Careers Program was conducted online for the second time.

UMass Dartmouth Annual Research Report 2020 graphic

Dear Colleagues,

I am truly excited to present the UMass Dartmouth Annual Research Report 2020, a celebration of scholarship that highlights the innovative research, scholarly and creative activities that were conducted by UMass Dartmouth students, faculty, and staff.

UMass Lowell’s SPACE HAUC satellite
If everything goes according to plan, UMass Lowell’s SPACE HAUC satellite, depicted in this artist’s rendering, will be launched into orbit this summer.
Four women take a selfie together during DifferenceMaker Demo Day
At DifferenceMaker Demo Day, the four biomedical engineering majors of Digital Life Prosthetics were among nine teams that showed off revamped pitches, thanks to a four-week boot camp. 

Sometimes, envisioning success makes all the difference, says senior 

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