UMass Amherst ranks among the 15 percent of schools that are the most “military friendly” in the country, offering the best education, value and welcome to service members and veterans, according to
G.I. Jobs magazine.
Based on a survey of 12,000 universities, colleges and trade schools, the magazine selected schools that offer a range of academic programs, support services and policies that help veterans and their dependents achieve their educational goals.
The campus was cited for having full-time veterans counselors on staff, its Reserve Officer Training Corps programs, career
The American Association of University Women (AAUW) awarded a 2012–13 American Fellowship to Christina “Nina” Moore, a doctoral candidate in Kinesiology.
Renee Fall, project manager of the Commonwealth Alliance for Information Technology Education (CAITE) in Computer Science, with Paula Rees, director of diversity programs at the College of Engineering, recently attended the two-day 2012 Google Roots in Science and Engineering (RISE) Global Summit at its offices in New York City, where they took part in activities with representatives from 26 other winning institutions from around the world.
Over the next five years, 300 Latina women in western and central Massachusetts with a history of diabetes while pregnant will receive personalized exercise, weight loss and other healthy lifestyle support to help them avoid developing type 2 diabetes after they give birth. The effort is funded with a $2.56 million grant from the NIH’s National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive Kidney Diseases to Lisa Chasan-Taber, professor of Epidemiology in the School of Public Health and Health Sciences (SPHHS).
A proposed five-year, $3.1 billion capital plan for the UMass system was approved Sept. 19 by the Board of Trustees at its meeting in Worcester.