Priyank Arora, assistant professor in Isenberg’s operations and information management department, has developed an analytical framework to help nonprofits answer questions that have direct consequences on service design, hiring and training, and partner development related decisions. 

When plans for the Fall 2020 Semester were being developed, UMass Amherst created a new Public Health Promotion Center and committed to launching a comprehensive asymptomatic testing program to mitigate COVID-19 within the campus community. What in August was a new endeavor is now a highly respected model that has played a key role in protecting public health, having conducted 160,832 COVID-19 tests by semester’s close of classes on Nov. 20.

UMass Amherst Information Technology (IT) has announced plans to ensure a smooth transition to Microsoft OneDrive and Google Drive, as the campus plans to retire Box Secure Online Storage in 2021 due to a dramatic cost increase and the vendor ending its unlimited storage offering.

Kim Tremblay, veterinary and animal sciences, has been awarded a five-year, $1.4 million grant from the NIH’s National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to investigate how the liver can replace itself in an amazingly short time.