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While gun violence in the United States continues to claim lives at an alarming rate, it is also taking a quiet toll on the U.S. economy, according to new research by Zirui Song, associate professor of health care policy in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School and associate professor of

Former NFL players study points to link between childhood adversities, poor neuropsychiatric health in later life

Questions about COVID-19 vaccine boosters—like who is eligible and how to choose one—have dominated scientific discussions, news headlines, and dinner-table conversations recently, but the practice of giving our immune systems periodic “refreshers” is anything but new.

The road to illuminating the biological mysteries of the human body is filled with hurdles, not the least of which is the daunting task of obtaining funding to support early-stage discoveries.

At Harvard Medical School, the Dean’s Innovation Awards addressed that challenge ...

Mark A. Thompson’s success in academia evolved from his uncertainty as a young man, when he left college after his first year and became a police officer in his hometown on Cape Cod.

Sitting a stone’s throw from where U.S. Marines landed and began to prosecute the Vietnam War in 1965, AUV offers a strong contrast from the suffering and turmoil that rocked the country for decades. The fledgling school is a harbinger of renewal and increasing modernity for Vietnam...

Academic and construction upgrades are taking Wentworth across an identity threshold, shedding its status as one of Boston’s best-kept secrets and revealing its maturation into a major academic entity.

Willard Merrill was born in New Hampshire in 1914, and finished high school in the middle of the Great Depression. He later recalled that he “never looked back” after graduating from Wentworth, went into business with top engineers, and earned millions of dollars selling his designs.

The visits bring together Bentley alums working in technology with current, tech-minded undergraduates and graduate students hoping to break into the field.

A new academic collaboration between the Shanghai Mental Health Center (SMHC) in China and the UMass Department of Psychiatry joins two of the leading forces in global mental health and marks the official beginning of a tremendously important relationship between east and west.

If they want to avoid massive data breaches like those faced by Target and Home Depot, retailers should voluntarily switch over to smart credit cards with computer chips embedded in them, according to a Bentley University faculty member who specializes in ways that consumers can avoid scams.

The associate professor in the Department of Architecture teaches architectural camouflage, a field that boomed during World War II but is essentially ageless, predicated on expanding upon nature’s own visual manipulations.

Symbolically at least, Vivienne Russell’s flight from her home and work in South Africa to the University of Massachusetts Medical School – more than 8,000 miles – is not unlike the exceptional distance that she has covered in her prolific and distinguished research career.

Guyer could fill a book with anecdotes from his sorties. Like the time in October 1966 when his UH-34 D was shot down near Da Nang during an emergency medevac mission. He was 25 years old.

More than a century after opening as a small technical school for "serious-minded boys," the school is awarding its first university degrees at its summer commencement this weekend.

This story appeared in top-tier media outlets (print editions, broadcast segments, and news websites) coast-to-coast, from New England to the northwest United States, to Miami and beyond. Dr. Goldenberg was interviewed by the Associated Press for a Feb. 18 report on a spate of roof collapses during

Placed feature photo of University President with members of the school's football team.

“It’s clear what their motive is,” said Marcus Stewart, a Bentley University business professor focused on leadership and ethics. “It’s the bottom line.”

Resources for dealing with the aftermath; UMass experts offer guidelines

Examples of posts to Facebook, Twitter and YouTube for UMass Medical School (Department of Psychiatry), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Brandeis University.

The best media relations professionals in the business know how to navigate the space between giving away everything and saying absolutely nothing. They know how to deal openly with reporters and are wise enough to always return calls and e-mails.

Lose the hyperbole. Aim for a true gut reaction and proceed from there.

Three of the country’s leading philanthropic organizations are supporting the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in its goal to ensure safety and security amid the anticipated expansion of nuclear energy around the world.

When an experimental brain operation left him a “profound amnesiac,” Henry Gustav Molaison might have chosen a private existence away from the public eye. Instead he made a gift of his misfortune, willingly exposing himself to the tests of 100 researchers over 50 years.

"Robin Feuer Miller has literally come full circle since her adventurous days in the spring of 1963, when, at 15, she wandered the grounds of Yasnaya Polyana, the Russian estate where the great Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy wrote War and Peace."

For the American Academy of Arts and Sciences I wrote and distributed via AP this news story, which was picked up from Boston, Mass., to Lafourche Parish, La., to Jackson, Miss.

The Center for Health Care Financing at the University of Massachusetts Medical School has entered into a five-year $3.75 million contract with the state of Washington...

A discussion with Anthony J. Rothschild, MD, director of the nationally recognized UMass Depression Center

The documentary Of Two Minds drew laughter and sadness from more than 200 attendees at a March 13 UMass Medical School Department of Psychiatry event on living with bipolar disorder.

To recognize, address and alleviate child trauma where it exists, the Department of Psychiatry will use a $1.6 million federal grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) National Child Traumatic Stress Network to provide specialized training to some 1,800 profe

I conceived of the Editorial and pitched it to the Boston Globe, which assigned a writer and published the piece.

For the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, I wrote and submitted this article to the Associated Press in Boston. It moved on the national wire and was picked up across the U.S., in the New York Times, Washington Post and other major media outlets.

"Southie, where Ulrich grew up the youngest of eight children, is itself a paradox. As Ulrich explains, it is a place barely clinging to the old ways. It is a place both loved and despised by its denizens. On one hand you’ve got neighborhoods of two-family houses and apartment buildings…"

"Ralph Waldo Emerson called teaching, 'the perpetual end and office of all things,' and 'the main design that shines through the sky and earth.”'

"Today we all feel profound sorrow over the loss of life and injury. We cannot imagine how the families and others directly affected by this must feel; we can only say that we stand with them in their grief and pain."

"Perhaps Joe Hill, the well-known labor organizer, hobo, songwriter, and rank-and-file member of the Industrial Workers of the World, said it best: 'If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; Every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains…'"

I directed the communications and media logistics for this event and for many other visits by celebrities and dignitaries, national and world political leaders.

"Despite some claims that the region’s population is quickly becoming overwhelmingly Muslim, Klausen said the numbers and prevailing political opinions don’t support that."

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- One hundred-seventy-seven of the nation’s most influential artists, scientists, scholars, authors, and institutional leaders will be inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences at a ceremony here on Saturday, October 1.

I drafted the resolution commending the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and its 231st Class of members on the occasion of the institution’s October 1, 2011 Induction ceremony in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

As these published newspaper excerpts demonstrate, I handled media inquiries as the spokesperson for an elite university.

“You drink deeply from wells of freedom that you did not dig,” Booker told the graduating seniors. “To me you have a critical decision to make: To accept conditions as they exist or to take responsibility for changing them.”

"Among other initiatives, the center will create new courses, offering opportunities for undergraduates to participate in research on interdisciplinary topics through internships, and organizing special local, national and international conferences…"

On the tragedy in Connecticut: Resources for dealing with the aftermath; UMass experts offer guidelines

This sample represents my work across the communications spectrum: I created and marketed the Meet the Author program, which featured three Pulitzer Prize winners among fifty guests in five years, wrote all of the promotional copy, worked on design, and distributed press materials.

Armed with new brain imaging techniques, researchers are building momentum toward understanding which adolescents are at risk for addiction and how neuroscience might enhance prevention and treatment.

“Christ is here for all people. We should pray for them. We should pray for the Klan and Ed Thrall. Pray for our children and our town,” the Rev. Russell C. Burchard told the ecumenical gathering at Grace Episcopal Church…

"Authorities said the chase began at about noon when one of the convicts, looking for the home of a relative in the area, stopped to ask a state trooper for directions."

"He is but one soldier in a small army of men who kept their delivery routes and trucks when economic sense told H.P. Hood Inc., their employer, to abandon its home service 12 years ago…"

Writing and design created for the Department of Psychiatry, UMass Medical School.

Content writing and editing performed for the Center for Health Care Financing