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- Archives -2021 Martin Luther King Jr. Semester of Service awardees will address local health needs
The 2021 Martin Luther King Jr. Semester of Service Award student projects address health disparities, including some worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Construction of new building prompts parking changes beginning Feb. 8
Nearly 1,200 people who park on the UMass Medical School campus in Worcester will have their parking assignments changed on Feb. 8, as construction continues on the new education and research building.
Brig. Gen. Sean Collins, PhD’09, appointed to Board of Trustees for Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke
Graduate School of Nursing alum and assistant professor of nursing Sean Collins, PhD’09, has been named a member of the Board of Trustees for the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke.
UMass Medical School students ready to serve on COVID-19 vaccination front lines
Graduate School of Nursing students taught more than 150 School of Medicine students to provide COVID-19 vaccinations to Worcester-area residents. Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences students will help track participants.
UMass Medical School students to administer COVID-19 vaccinations for Worcester area
UMass Medical School students are joining the “army of vaccinators” that Worcester Division of Public Health Medical Director Michael Hirsh, MD, has called upon to get the COVID-19 vaccines to as many in the community as possible.
Chancellor Collins and President Meehan call for COVID-19 Vaccine Corps in Boston Globe op-ed
UMass Medical School Chancellor Michael F. Collins and UMass President Marty Meehan are calling for the creation of a national COVID-19 Vaccine Corps, in a Boston Globe op/ed published Friday, Jan. 1.