2020 Top Story
- Archives -UMass Cancer Walk and Run to be a virtual event in 2020
Organizers have announced that the 22nd annual UMass Cancer Walk and Run scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 13, will take place online, with supporters able to participate remotely at locations and for distances of their choosing.
UMass Medical School researchers visualize new states of ribosome translation with cryo-EM
The states through which ribosomes, the molecular machines responsible for reading genetic information, synthesize life-sustaining proteins have been revealed in unprecedented time-resolved detail by UMass Medical School structural biologists Andrei Korostelev, PhD, and Anna Loveland, PhD.
Reflections in medicine: SOM students launch podcast to highlight stories of caregivers
Divya Bhatia, SOM ’21, and Qiuwei Yang, SOM ’22, created a podcast, Murmurs: Stories from our Journey in Medicine, to share reflections and experiences of providers and trainees at UMass Medical School.
Yasaman Gholamalipour awarded fellowship by Huntington’s Disease Society of America
UMass Medical School postdoctoral associate Yasaman Gholamalipour, PhD, was awarded the Huntington’s Disease Society of America Berman-Topper Family HD Career Development Fellowship for 2020.
Mobile addiction care service to offer outreach to high-risk populations
UMass Medical School is a partner in an innovative mobile addiction services contract funded by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
Greater Worcester COVID-19 Community Health Survey underway
UMass Medical School is conducting a community-facing survey in Worcester and six surrounding communities to assess how COVID-19 has affected ongoing day-to-day needs and help localities target relief efforts.
UMass Medical School taking a stand in support of positive change
In a memo to the UMass Medical School community, Chancellor Michael F. Collins and Dean Terence R. Flotte say racism is a public health crisis and outline changes underway at UMMS.
Katherine Fitzgerald and Anastasia Khvorova named Harrington Scholars
The Harrington Discovery Institute at University Hospitals in Cleveland, Ohio, in collaboration with Morgan Stanley GIFT Cures, has chosen two UMass Medical School faculty members to receive Harrington Scholar Awards for Coronavirus.
UMass Medical School providing aid to Worcester Public Schools summer learning program
UMass Medical School is donating funds to support Worcester Public Schools in direct response to the COVID-19 school shutdown to provide internet access to students to help them catch up via remote learning opportunities over the summer.
School of Medicine student produces face shields for frontline staff using 3-D printer
School of Medicine student Emily Chin has produced nearly 200 plastic face shields for health care workers, a labor of love inspired by her late grandmother who died from the novel coronavirus in April.