Hunter Parent-Wetmore, an undergraduate public health major, was recently featured in a guest column in the Daily Hampshire Gazette newspaper about higher education funding.
Recent News
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Feb 27 2013
The Institute for Computational Biology, Biostatistics, and Bioinformatics (ICB3) has launched its inaugural website at www.umass.edu/icb3. The site is one of the first to be developed with University Relations’ new UMass-branded Drupal package.
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Feb 26 2013
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 University of Massachusetts Amherst School of Public Health and Health Sciences (SPHHS) and Harvard. It is one of the first to evaluate whether dietary mineral intake is associated with PMS development.
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Feb 25 2013
Toby Fisher and Andrea Freeman of the Massachusetts Public Health Association (MPHA) spoke to over 50 students and community health leaders during a visit to the UMass Amherst campus on February 5th.
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Feb 21 2013
Aline Gubrium, Assistant Professor of Community Health Education, was recently profiled by the UMass informational website In the Loop. Gubrium's recent $500,000 grant from the Ford Foundation is the topic of the feature...
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Feb 21 2013
Biostatistics doctoral student Xiangdong Gu will present his paper “Study Design in the Presence of Error-prone Self-reported Outcomes” at the International Biometrics Society’s Eastern North American Region (ENAR) Spring 2013 meetings in Orlando, FL on March 10-13.
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Feb 11 2013
Nicholas Reich, Research Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, is the lead biostatistician for a team of researchers who recently reported results of one of the largest infection prevention trials ever conducted in children. Investigators at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center led the work at five pediatric hospitals.
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Feb 07 2013
Recently, large studies have identified some of the genetic basis for important common diseases such as heart disease and diabetes, but most of the genetic contribution to them remains undiscovered.
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Jan 31 2013
Peltier spoke with WWLP-22News about airborne toxins released as a result of a November 2012 gas explosion in Springfield, MA.
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Jan 30 2013
Lisa Wexler, Assistant Professor of Community Health Education, is quoted in a recent article appearing on the Indian Country Today website. The article focuses on youth suicide prevention efforts in Alaska.
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Jan 17 2013
Aline Gubrium, Assistant Professor of Community Health Education, has just received funding for a two-year, $500,000 grant from the Ford Foundation for a collaborative project titled “Hear Our Stories: Diasporic Youth for Sexual Rights and Justice.”
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Jan 17 2013
Elena T. Carbone, Associate Professor of Nutrition, and Elaine Puleo, Associate Dean for Research, received a two-year grant to assess the impact of new policies implemented as part of the “Live Well Springfield” project.
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Dec 31 2012
Nicholas Reich, Research Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, is mentioned in a Daily Hampshire Gazette article profiling the breast cancer research of Shelly Peyton, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering. Reich will collaborate with Peyton on the statistical analysis of cell-tissue experiments.
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Dec 31 2012
Tameka L. Gillum, Associate Professor of Community Health Education, was honored with the Outstanding Research Award at the Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community’s national conference held Aug. 13-14 in Norfolk, VA.
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Dec 31 2012
Dr. David Buchanan, Director of the UMass Amherst Institute for Global Health and Professor of Community Health Education, hosted three delegations of public health students and faculty from Russia for a week each during Fall Semester 2012.
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Dec 31 2012
Susan Hankinson, Professor of Epidemiology, was recently featured as the UMass Amherst "Spotlight Scholar." Her breast cancer research landed her a prestigious spot as a Susan G. Komen for the Cure Scholar.
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Dec 31 2012
Jing Hao, doctoral student in Health Policy and Management, received the 2012 American Public Health Association (APHA) Student Presentation Award. Ms. Hao received the APHA student award for her study on the Public Health Implications and Economics of Combination Drugs.
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Dec 31 2012
Richard J. Peltier, Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, is featured in an article appearing on the new UMass Amherst ResearchNext website. The story examines Peltier's research on the "chemistry of air pollution to reduce health risks."
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Dec 31 2012
Andrea Foulkes, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, is part of an interdisciplinary team of UMass researchers that received an $867,040 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to create a high-bandwidth optical data network for computer science researchers.
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Dec 31 2012
Ramilkia Santiago, a Public Health Sciences major, received a Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship for fall semester 2012. The $3,000 scholarship has allowed Santiago to study abroad in Granada, Spain.