The population of Greater Boston is shifting in unprecedented ways, with impacts on communities across the region, according to a new reports series co-authored and published today by Boston鈥, Asian Americans in Greater Boston: Building Communities Old and New, Quincy and Fields Corner, Dorchester Paul Watanabe and Shauna Lo, the Institute for Asian American Studies, African Americans in Greater Boston: Challenges, Identities, Legacies , and, Movements, Brockton and Roxbury Barbara Lewis, the William Monroe Trotter Institute and Rita Kiki Edozie, McCormack Graduate School at UMass Boston, Native Americans in Massachusetts: New Homecomings and Ongoing Displacements, Aquinnah and Boston citywide J. Cedric Woods, the Institute for New England Native American Studies, Latinos in Greater Boston: Migration, New Communities and the Challenge of Displacement, Waltham and East Boston Lorna Rivera, the Mauricio Gaston Institute A final section, Newly Diverse Communities in Greater Boston, by Trevor Mattos of Boston Indicators, explores the impact of major鈥, A transformation 鈥 with an economic impact, The report finds that the percentage of nonwhite residents has increased in all 147 cities and towns in Greater Boston since 1990鈥 during that time, the non-white population outside of Boston鈥, A changing pattern of immigration, The percentage of foreign-born residents in Greater Boston in 2017 is the highest it has been since before the Great Depression (although still lagging behind the levels reached from 1850 to 1930),鈥
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The 色色导航 Boston and its extended community mourn the loss of former Chancellor Sherry H. Penney, who passed away in Florida last week. Dr. Penney was known for her exceptional鈥
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Thirteen years ago, Elisa Ogawa couldn't speak, read, or write English. But she arrived in Dorchester with a passion. Ogawa, then 15, had traveled from Japan to live with her aunt, with the dream of鈥
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A team of researchers from UMass Lowell, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and China Agricultural University in Beijing has developed a new, sustainable way of converting wet biological鈥, From Biocrude Oil to Diesel Blendstock, According to Chen, biocrude oil, which is converted directly from wet biowaste using the HTL process, produces a comparable amount of heat to petroleum crude oil (about 75 to 90 percent). However, to鈥
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UMass Boston's baseball team is headed back to the Division III College World Series. After beating the New England College Pilgrims 5-4 on Friday, the Beacons bounced back from a Game Two loss on鈥
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UMass Dartmouth junior All-American Jordan Entwistle (Northboro, Mass./Algonquin Regional) capped an incredible individual season by capturing the 2019 individual national championship in the men's鈥
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色色导航 alumnus Paul Manning '77 and his wife Diane Manning, have committed $1 million through their family foundation to establish the Manning Innovation Program . The program鈥
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Completing a doctoral nursing degree is a great challenge and a great achievement. On Wednesday, May 29, soon-to-be Graduate School of Nursing Class of 2019 degree recipients celebrated their鈥, Chancellor鈥檚 Award , Natalie Fleming, MS, RN, GSN Dean鈥檚 Award , Kimberly Keres Hall, MS, RN, Commencement Speaker , Cecily Kulsick, BS, RN, Carol Bova Scholarship, Jennifer DiBenedetto, MS, RN, Lillian Goodman Scholarship, Cheryl Hersperger, MS, RN, Annie Vigeant Award, Beatie Ultimo, MS, RN, Paulette Seymour-Route Scholarship, James Ennis, MS, RN, Suzanne T. Sullivan Scholarship, Kim Beaudry, BS, RN Adam Bliss, BS, RN, Mary K. Alexander Academic Achievement and Leadership Award , Cecily Kulsick, BS, RN, Academic Achievement and Leadership Award , Julia Yasek, MS, RN, Mary Kinnear Raymond Award, Megan Kennelly, BS, RN, Lynne Foster Davidson Scholarship, Tiana Ingersoll, BS, RN, Lucie D. Russell Briefcase Awards, Family Nurse Practitioner: Samia Ahmed, BA, RN Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner: Melissa Burdick, MS, Outstanding NP Student in Critical Care Award, Elizabeth Ferguson, MS, RN, Jane McCue Magner Award, Meghan Schmidt, MS, RN, GSN Community Service Awards, Dominican Republic Batey Health Initiative : Heather Lovelace, BS, RN Bryan McCullough, BS, NR Alexandra Young, BS, RN Mable Mason, BS, RN Jennifer DiBenedetto, MS, RN Alaina Valcourt, BS, RN, Outstanding Community Partner Award, Antonia 鈥淭oni鈥 McGuire, RN, MPH, and the Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center, Ciborowski Family Scholarship, Elisha Lico, BS, RN, Nancy & Walter Kowal Scholarship, Brittany Carney, MS, RN, Daisy Award, Jean Boucher, PhD, Humanism in Health Care Award, Kenneth Peterson, PhD
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UMass Medical School awarded 214 degrees, including three honorary degrees, at its 46th Commencement exercises on Sunday, June 2, under a tent on the Campus Green. Association of American Medical鈥
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It was clear early on into UMass Boston's graduate commencement ceremony that those earning master's and doctoral degrees were ready for this day. Shortly into Interim Chancellor Katherine S. Newman'鈥, Lyns Hercule, , whose capstone project focused on fostering adherence to treatment for hypertension in the Haitian American community at the Mattapan Community Health Center; newly-minted PhD, Jasintha Mtengezo, , the dean of faculty at Daeyang College of Nursing and Midwifery in Malawi who has been awarded several research grants to study HIV and cervical cancer among HIV infected women in Malawi; and, Latasha Anderson-Smith, , who received her Master of Public Administration from the McCormack Graduate School while working full-time for the Dorchester division of the Boston Municipal Court and raising a young daughter.鈥, Marty Meehan, said. "You have demonstrated a passion in your chosen field, a commitment to lifelong learning, both of which will be crucial in capitalizing on the opportunities and confronting the challenges ahead鈥, Elisa Ogawa, , spoke about overcoming challenges. She came to the U.S. to play basketball at the age of 15 without being able to read, write, or speak English. "When I was on the court, I felt free: it didn't鈥, Barry Mills, , told graduates that their learning does not end with graduation. "If you make a life habit of reading, you will continue to expand your mind and your connection to the important issues of the day鈥, Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda, worked for the United Nations for a decade, and while she was general secretary/CEO of the World YMCA, the organization developed and delivered programs on women's and children's rights, violence鈥, Claudia Rankine, has authored five collections of poetry, including the bestselling, multiple-award-winning Citizen: An American Lyric, which uses poetry, essays, cultural criticism, and visual images to explore what鈥
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