Claudia Grossmann, PhD, is a Senior Program Officer with the Research Infrastructure team at the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). She provides oversight for initiatives designed to strengthen community-driven research, including within PCORnet, the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network.
Economics Professor Léonce Ndikumana Named Andrew Carnegie Fellow Global expert on macroeconomics and development in African countries is first UMass Amherst faculty member to receive the recognition
April 28, 2021
Léonce Ndikumana
AMHERST, Mass. – Distinguished Professor of Economics Léonce Ndikumana, considered by many to be one of the best-known and most widely respected African macroeconomists of his generation, has been named a 2021 Andrew Carnegie Fellow by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Ndikumana is the first University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty member to receive the honor.
Each year, the Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program recognizes a select group of scholars and writers who receive philanthropic support for scholarship in the humanities and social sciences that addresses important and enduring issues confronting society. The fellows’ projects focus on a broad range of complex political, economic, technolog
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Innovative multidisciplinary research at Washington University led to development of breakthrough device
Eric Leuthardt, MD, professor of neurosurgery at Washington University School of Medicine, models a device that helps people disabled by stroke regain significant control over their arm and hand function by using their minds. Called the IpsiHand Upper Extremity Rehabilitation System, the first-of-its-kind device has received market authorization from the Food and Drug Administration. It was developed by Neurolutions Inc., a Washington University startup company that leverages brain-computer interface technology licensed from the university. (Photo: Elizabethe Holland Durando/School of Medicine)
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A first-of-its kind device that helps people disabled by stroke regain significant control over their arm and hand function by using their minds has received market authorization from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The IpsiHand Upper Extremity Rehabil
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