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UMass Dartmouth Nursing students in simulation lab taking notes
UMass Dartmouth faculty awarded grant to develop training in the treatment of opioid use disorder

The $595,485 grant from the Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts (FORE) will aid future nursing students in addressing stigma towards opioid use disorder

Vijaya Chalivendra
Professor Vijaya Chalivendra awarded $430K by National Science Foundation

Dr. Chalivendra received the $430,631 award from the NSF's Division of Materials Research for his“REU site: Advanced Interdisciplinary Materials Research for Maritime Applications” project, which will host a summer cohort of community college students who will conduct cutting-edge research on advanced marine materials.

Abigail Keith lab working
Office of Naval Research awards Dr. John Buck $434K to create acoustic signal processing models

Project combines noninvasive brain imaging techniques, animal behavior experiments, & signal processing models to gain a better understanding of how animals use echolocation to gather information about their environment.

Graphic courtesy Tia Martineau '18 (Physics)
UMass Dartmouth professor and students discover fast-moving black hole

Professor Scott Field Ph.D., and graduate students Tousif Islam and Feroz H. Shaik found the first evidence for a large recoil velocity from a black hole merger

Prof. Sigal Gottlieb, Mathematics
U.S. Air Force awards mathematics professor with $600,000 grant

Chancellor Professor Sigal Gottlieb, Ph.D. receives grant for computing cluster needed to develop and implement robust and scalable numerical algorithms

Professor Tracie Ferreira
UMass Dartmouth awarded $1.49M from the National Science Foundation to develop leadership skills and engineering identity in graduate students

The award led by Dr. Tracie Ferreira will provide $900,000 in scholarships to prepare graduate students to excel as skilled leaders in entrepreneurship, technology, and innovation in an effort to build the South Coast’s blue economy.

Banafsheh Seyed Aghazadeh
Banafsheh Seyed-Aghazadeh receives National Science Foundation CAREER Award

Award supports Seyed-Aghazadeh’s research efforts in the area of fluid dynamics, shedding light on the fundamentals of fluid-structure-surface interactions in underwater flexible bodies, including near-surface arrays of energy harvesters and underwater soft robots.

Office of the Provost announces 2022 Internal Seed Funding awardees

Projects were reviewed by faculty and deans and rated for their relevance and potential for external funding

Office of Undergraduate Research announces Winter/Spring 2022 grant recipients

Congratulations to students and faculty mentors for their research endeavors

PrimaLoft
UMass Dartmouth's new biodegradability lab aims to ease the impact of plastics in the world's oceans and landfills

With funding from PrimaLoft and the MassTech Collaborative, researchers bring focus to sustainability

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