On a typical day, family nurse practitioner , Valery Joseph ’10, G’18, sees between 15 and 18 patients at the Whittier Street Health Center in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood. Most of her patients range in age from 50 to 90. About 90 percent speak Spanish, one of four…, Goddard House Renews Support for Mid-Career Nursing Students, In March, Goddard House, the oldest nonprofit elder care organization in Massachusetts, pledged a $500,000 gift over five years to the Goddard House–Doane Scholarship program. The program provides…
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Four hundred years after the first Thanksgiving—a three-day harvest feast celebrated in 1621 by a band of desperately struggling English settlers and a group of neighboring native Wampanoag— it…, Elizabeth Tarulis G’20, , a master’s student at the time of the discovery, said finding evidence of constructed features that have disappeared over time is different from finding tangible artifacts. “Because soil is…, Constance the Calf, In 2014, when UMass Boston researchers began to find 17thcentury artifacts such as pottery, tins, trade beads, and musket balls, they were cautiously optimistic that they had found a location inside…
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Whether it’s through film, drawing, music, theater, or dance, , Maria Servellón ’12, has always been creating art in one form or another. But it wasn’t until her sophomore year at UMass Boston that she considered turning her talents into a career. “I originally pursued psychology,…
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Asst. Prof. of Nursing ElGhaziri-Mazen Mazen El Ghaziri and a colleague have been selected by the National Institute of Corrections to create a workplace training program aimed at improving job…
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Like others around the world, Jason Reyes was horrified by the video of George Floyd being killed by Minneapolis police, as well as the Black lives lost before and after. Like many, Reyes struggled…
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A new Honors landing page honors seminar, The Science of Energy, is inspiring students from a wide range of majors to get involved in research into renewable energy, in Haiti and on campus. Brendon…
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Students in the Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP) and Initiative for Maximizing Student Development (IMSD) of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences gathered on Zoom…
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The Foundation to Fight H-ABC, a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing awareness and driving development of a cure for this rare degenerative children's disease, has announced sponsored…
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BOSTON – With early voting set to start tomorrow across Massachusetts, student leaders from all five UMass campuses gathered virtually at a voter engagement summit hosted by UMass President Marty…, UMass President Marty Meehan, commended the students for their leadership and dedication to this initiative. “One thing we know for sure is that young people are energized as never before and are providing vital leadership on…
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A new, $2 million grant from the NCI Serological Sciences Network for COVID-19 (SeroNet) is aimed at enhancing representation of Black and Hispanic people in SARS-CoV-2 immunology research through…
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