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Match Day 2019: Anthony Tran "Grateful"
Tran is part of the first cohort of students who participated in the UMass Bacc/MD program, which creates a pathway from the University of Massachusetts system’s undergraduate campuses to the School of Medicine in Worcester.
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.
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.
David McManus developing mobile health component for RURAL health study of disease risk factors
UMass Medical School physician-scientist David McManus is the primary investigator of the mobile health core of the RURAL study, which seeks to understand why people born in rural communities in the South live shorter and less healthy lives than their counterparts elsewhere in the country.
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Amir Mitchell lab engages high school classes in superbug research via online portal
Under the guidance of Amir Mitchell, PhD, 250 high school students from Massachusetts, California and Israel have had the opportunity to research one of medicine’s biggest challenges today—the emergence of superbugs.
Read moreNucleic Acid Therapeutics for Neurological Diseases
CRISPR-SONIC: targeted somatic oncogene knock-in enables rapid in vivo cancer modeling.
Single-Cell RNA-Sequencing-Based CRISPRi Screening Resolves Molecular Drivers of Early Human Endoderm Development.
Nuts, Cardiovascular Health, and Diabetes
Education
Ashley Matthew receives HOPE scholarship from Biomedical Science Careers Program
MD/PhD candidate Ashley Matthew was awarded a HOPE Scholarship from the Biomedical Science Careers Program. She accepted the two-year, $7,500 award at the “Evening of Hope” celebration held at Harvard Medical School on April 25.
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Women’s Faculty Awards honor excellence across career spectrum
The 19th Women’s Faculty Awards Luncheon honored women in science and health care for achievements throughout their careers. Faculty were recognized for early career achievement, clinical service, mentoring, education and science.
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Medical students named inaugural Mick Huppert Community Health Scholars
Medical students Divya Bhatia, Emily Nuss and Vanessa Villamarin are conducting local public health projects as the first recipients of the Mick Huppert Community Health Scholar Award, established to honor the memory of the late faculty member Michael Huppert, MPH, and his commitment to improving community health.
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