Inspired by Dennis Murphy III’s remarkable recovery from a stroke, Dennis’ mother, Julie Murphy, has established a fund named in memory of her husband and Dennis’ father, Dennis F. Murphy Jr., to advance stroke rehabilitation education at UMass Chan Medical School.

A gift from the Hall family, including Kimberly Hall, FNP, DNP’19, her husband Bruce Hall, and their children, will make international clinical nursing experiences more accessible to students at the Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing through the establishment of the Hall Family Global Nursing Fund.

More than 2,000 participants descended on Polar Park in Worcester for the 26th annual UMass Cancer Walk presented by Harr Toyota on Sunday, Sept. 29. This year, more than $650,000 was raised.