Lyme disease has become an insidious epidemic in the United States. Caused by bacteria transmitted by an infected tick bite, symptoms can include arthritis and cardiac and neurological problems if…, A vaccine’s cautionary tale, In 1998, the FDA approved a Lyme vaccine composed of protein antigens from the surface of the Lyme bacteria, Borrelia burgdorferi . A vaccine works by introducing proteins from the disease-causing…, A different approach, Unlike a vaccine, Lyme PrEP uses a single human antibody, or blood protein, to kill the bacteria in the tick’s gut while it takes its blood drink, before the bacteria can get into the human host.…
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The Child Trauma Training Center at UMass Medical School has received supplemental funding to help ensure the center’s LINK-KID referral service has the capacity to handle an expected surge in calls…, Related story on UMassMedNow:, UMass Medical School child trauma expert co-authors COVID-19 resource for supporting children’s well-being
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Teresa Ramsby, associate professor of classics, recently received the annual award for Excellence in College Teaching from the Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS). Ramsby is…
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The Mission Continues , a nonprofit organization that trains and redeploys veterans in their communities, has awarded UMass Boston student veteran Tony Martin ’19 a $1,500 grant through its Service…
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Kelsey Edmond, a PhD student in UMass Boston’s McCormack Graduate School , has been selected to be one of this year’s Rappaport Public Policy Fellows. Funded and administered by Harvard's Rappaport…
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Four students, all but one the first in their family to attend college, are the 2020 winners of the Venture Development Center’s Entrepreneur Scholarship. They are: Adil Fernandes, Management ’20…, Previous Entrepreneur Scholarship Winners:, 2019: Sarah DuBois-Coyne and Nezar Lila 2018: Maria Vasco
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A COVID-19 risk prediction tool developed at UMass Medical School and deployed at the DCU Field Hospital helped UMass Memorial Health Care hospitals manage the COVID-19 surge in Worcester. The…, Related stories on UMassMedNow:, NIH invests in rapid innovation and development for COVID-19 testing Startup incubator aims to spur life-saving innovations LISTEN: How digital devices play a role in screening patients for disease…
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently announced that UMass Dartmouth doctoral student Akira Harper was awarded a 2020 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. A STEM Education student, Harper’s…
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AMHERST, Mass. – The notion of conserving climate change refugia – areas relatively buffered from current climate change that shelter valued wildlife, ecosystems, and other natural resources – is…
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In an email to the campus community on Friday, May 29, Chancellor Kumble R. Subbaswamy denounced the deeply troubling acts of racial violence, institutional racism, and expressed the urgent need to …
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