Starting this week, students have a new way
of accessing campus resources on the go. Go.UMass is a device-responsive website that brings together students’ personalized
academic information and other useful campus data, such as news, events, maps and athletics scores, on mobile and desktop devices.
“Given the prevalence of smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices among students and our desire to streamline the delivery of campus information, we opted for a ‘one-stop virtual shop,’ a centralized, mobile‐friendly portal that meets students’ information needs,” said Heidi Dollard,
Business Protection Specialists, Inc., an independent security consulting firm based in Canandaigua, N.Y., has been hired to conduct a comprehensive review of the residence hall security program and recommend improvements to ensure a safe campus community.
Biochemistry researchers including assistant professor Peter Chien recently gained new insight into how protein synthesis and degradation help to regulate the delicate ballet of cell division. In particular, they reveal how two proteins shelter each other in “mutually assured cleanup” to insure that division goes smoothly and safely.
The grant will fund over 40 master's students in speech language pathology (SLP) with a specialization in the area of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and using technologies
The CEO and general manager of NEPR, Martin Miller, was joined at the ceremony by Congressman Richard Neal, Mayor Domenic Sarno, Elizabeth Cardona of the governor’s Springfield office and John Kennedy, vice chancellor for University Relations.
Physicists Narayanan Menon, Benny Davidovitch and Christopher Santangelo, with polymer scientist Thomas Russell, recently won a three-year, $1 million Keck Foundation grant to develop the basic science needed to spontaneously deliver ultrathin films to fluid interfaces. The W.M. Keck Science and Engineering program funds “endeavors that are distinctive and novel in their approach. It encourages projects that are high-risk with the potential for transformative impact.”
Randolph Wilson “Bill” Bromery, of Peabody, who served as chancellor from 1971-79 and Commonwealth Professor emeritus of geophysics, died Feb. 26 in Danvers. He was 87.
The Isenberg School of Management's newly launched Hybrid MBA program allows students to complete a core curriculum of online MBA courses followed by nine months of courses on campus in the company of Isenberg’s second-year, full-time MBA students. It is the fourth MBA option now offered by the school.
The Institute for Computational Biology, Biostatistics, and Bioinformatics (ICB3) has launched its inaugural website at 
Women who reported eating a diet rich in iron were 30 to 40 percent less likely to develop pre-menstrual syndrome (PMS) than women who consumed lower amounts, in a study reported this week by researchers at the School of Public Health and Health Sciences and Harvard. It is one of the first to evaluate whether dietary mineral intake is associated with PMS development.