Marcelo Suárez-Orozco will be officially installed as the ninth permanent chancellor of UMass Boston this Friday (April 5) in a ceremony that will be held, in part, on a newly built campus Quad. Hailed as the new “centerpiece” of the Dorchester Bay campus, the walking paths and green space have replaced what was once the university’s hulking red-brick Science Center and a
Covid-19 is once again on the rise, largely as a result of the highly transmissible BA.5 subvariant. And as the virus ravages America’s health care system, it is illuminating the country’s national shortage of nurses, write Marcella Bombardieri and Marina Zhavoronkova.
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Amidst a nursing shortage plaguing health care institutions across the state, Mass General Brigham and UMass Boston announced Thursday that they are investing $20 million into a program meant to recruit nursing students from underrepresented communities.
UMass Boston’s Manning College of Nursing and Health Sciences is set to receive $3 million for a “home care digital and simulation lab,” courtesy of the federal government. Rep. Stephen Lynch, a South Boston Democrat who also represents Dorchester’s eastern half, including UMass Boston on the Columbia Point peninsula, took a swing through the nursing skills lab, located inside