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The 350-foot concrete Wells Avenue Path, equipped with lighting and handrails, connects UMass Amherst’s Greater Boston center for professional development with Newton’s largest business park—home to the Wells Ave YMCA and major employers like Karyopharm Therapeutics, CyberArk, and Bright Horizons Corporate Headquarters.
Wolf, associate professor in the Elaine Marieb College of Nursing and a competitive fencer who trains and coaches at the Riverside Fencing Club in Hadley, will be a member of USA Fencing’s delegation, competing in the Veteran-50 Women’s Epee category, Nov. 10-20 in Manama, Bahrain.
Fellow UMass Transit employee and student driver Jay Peters also finished seventh in the competition, which included drivers from host institution Harvard as well as UNH, Princeton, Vermont, Virginia Tech, Georgia, Boston College, Penn State, Boston University and Stony Brook University.
The Office of Faculty Development’s Internal Advisory Board provides valuable input on OFD’s priorities, as well as the programming and resources offered to help faculty members and librarians work, live and thrive at UMass Amherst.
The study aims to learn more about how hearing aids are obtained and to collect opinions on a new way to get hearing aids over the counter.
The two-year project, conducted in collaboration with researchers from Clemson and the University of Maryland, will assess whether the goals of the law’s EV policies—promoting domestic vehicle and battery production, and reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions—are complementary or in conflict.
The policies are most effective at improving mental health for overweight and obese teens.
Meliou, professor and associate chair of faculty development in the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences, has been elected vice chair of the Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD) for the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
UMass Amherst labor expert Donald Tomaskovic-Devey finds that access to high-paying jobs—not unequal pay for the same job—is the biggest driver of immigrant wage gaps.
