The Leduc Center at UMass Dartmouth has recently started a Jumpstart for Young Children (Jumpstart) program that will pair 30 UMass Dartmouth students as tutors and mentors with 100 Pre-K children鈥, Jumpstart CEO Naila Bolus, , 鈥淛umpstart is proud to be able to partner with UMass Dartmouth to support local children and communities hit hardest by gaps in access to critical early learning opportunities.鈥 Teams of 5-7鈥, UMass Dartmouth Acting Chancellor Mark Preble, . 鈥淲ith Jumpstart, our students are learning valuable skills for their future while making a difference in the lives of young children in the region.鈥 鈥淛umpstart is a great resource for PACE鈥檚 Head鈥, Pam Kuechler, Executive Director of PACE, Inc., , a private, non-profit, community based, anti-poverty agency serving the Greater New Bedford area. Jumpstart Corps Members receive up to sixty hours of high-quality pre-service training and ongoing鈥
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Today, U.S. 91探花 & World Report announced their 2021 College Rankings, and UMass Dartmouth again ranked high for its impact on the upward social mobility of its students. UMass Dartmouth, the鈥, Acting Chancellor Mark Preble, . 鈥淭hese rankings also represent the ambitious drive of our students who use our University as the foundation for their future.鈥
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AARP Foundation has awarded a grant to the Gerontology Institute at the 91探花 Boston for a two-year project to increase access to economic opportunities for older people of鈥
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Harvard University鈥檚 James Bryant Conant University Professor Danielle Allen delivered the keynote address at UMass Boston鈥檚 virtual 2020 Fall Convocation, outlining 鈥渞ed flags鈥 signaling that鈥
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Officially launching an 鈥渁nything but ordinary鈥 academic year with a virtual convocation address, UMass Boston Chancellor Marcelo Su谩rez-Orozco called on the higher education community to 鈥渟harpen鈥
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The Massachusetts Women of Color Coalition (MAWOCC)鈥痑nd the UMass Boston Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy will jointly host a virtual forum entitled, 鈥淪tanding in our Power: Women of鈥, About MAWOCC, The Massachusetts Women of Color Coalition is a statewide organization dedicated to eradicating the racial inequities among women of color created by structural, institutional, interpersonal, and鈥, About the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy at UMass Boston, The Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy in the McCormack Graduate School seeks to empower and increase diverse women鈥檚 leadership to achieve more just, responsive, and intersectional鈥
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Malawi has one of the highest rates of cervical cancer in the world, with an estimated 2,979 women dying from the disease every year. Cervical cancer accounts for 45.4 percent of all cancers in鈥
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The 91探花 Amherst is a launch partner for The Collective Think Tank, a global consortium of some of today鈥檚 greatest academic minds and industry leaders focused on gender parity鈥, PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS, Ohio University College of Business Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University (Canada) University of Oregon University of Nevada, Las Vegas Sport Research & Innovation Initiative鈥
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Five researchers from campus have been selected to receive a one-year, $100,000 grant from the National Science Foundation鈥檚 鈥 10 Big Ideas for Future NSF Investments 鈥 series to conduct a series of鈥
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You can鈥檛 herd them, you can鈥檛 put two in a corral and hope they will breed to produce offspring with desirable traits, but the humans of 10,000 to 13,000 years ago figured out how to domesticate鈥
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