Officials from UMass Amherst’s College of Nursing will join UMass Amherst Chancellor Kumble R. Subbaswamy, Spacelabs Healthcare President Sujit Kumar and Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno to open a newly expanded College of Nursing laboratory that will enhance nursing education at the UMass Center at Springfield. The Springfield center is an important pipeline for UMass Amherst to train nurses for the region’s healthcare sector.

More than 250 participants are expected at the UMass Amherst Center for Data Sciences’ third annual research symposium, including industry researchers from 50 companies such as Amazon, Bloomberg, Cooley Dickinson Health Care, Google, IBM, Intel, MassMutual, Microsoft, Oracle, Raytheon, State Street, Verizon and Wayfair, with UMass Amherst and Five College faculty and students