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2018 White Coat Ceremony
The 162 members of the School of Medicine Class of 2022 at UMass Medical School donned their white coats for the first time in a heartfelt ceremony on Friday, Sept. 14, under a tent on the campus green, as the first-year medical students accepted the mantel of the medical profession.
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2018 Convocation & Investiture Ceremony
Chancellor Michael F. Collins delivered his annual Convocation address and presented the 2018 Chancellor’s Medals for excellence in teaching, scholarship, service and clinical excellence.The Investiture ceremony, following Convocation, invested four distinguished faculty members as named professors and honored the donors who endowed them.
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2018 Commencement Ceremony
UMass Medical School bestowed 193 degrees, including three honorary degrees, at its 45th Commencement exercises. Chancellor Michael F. Collins presided over the ceremony, calling on graduates to keep focusing on people.
UMass Medical School recognized with national award for opioid safe-prescribing curriculum
UMass Medical School has been selected as one of four recipients of the American Association of Medical Colleges Curricular Innovation Award for its Opioid Safe-prescribing Training Immersion program.
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Raziel Rojas-Rodriguez studies adipose tissue function in metabolism during pregnancy
Raziel Rojas-Rodriguez, a PhD candidate in the Program in Molecular Medicine, is studying how adipose tissue expansion during pregnancy is related to metabolic health. Learn more about her research in this Women in Science video.
Read moreTherapeutic genome editing by combined viral and non-viral delivery of CRISPR system components in vivo
Epigenetic characteristics of the mitotic chromosome in 1D and 3D
Bacterial Metabolism Affects the C. elegans Response to Cancer Chemotherapeutics
Microsatellite Expansion Diseases: Repeat Toxicity Found in Translation
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Luanne Thorndyke receives medical society’s Woman Physician Leadership Award
Luanne E. Thorndyke, MD, has received the Massachusetts Medical Society’s Woman Physician Leadership Award. The honor recognizes outstanding leadership and contributions to patients and the medical profession by a woman physician.
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Grant expands opportunities for underrepresented students in biomedical sciences to pursue graduate study
A new, $1.4 million National Institutes of Health grant is funding an expansion of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Pathway to Graduate Studies program. Brian Lewis, PhD, is co-investigator on the grant.
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