Kassandra Jean-Marie, a second-year medical student whose journey to becoming a physician has twice taken her through UMass Chan Medical School’s corridors, has wanted to be a doctor from a young age. Her reasons, though, have changed over the years, shaped by her parents’ experiences and her own observations. Jean-Marie was born in Boston; her parents were born in Haiti.
UMass Chan Medical School Registrar Michael Baker, MA, has been named to the 2021 Biomedical Science Careers Program Honor Roll in recognition of his 13 years of involvement with the program. Baker was recognized during the annual BSCP Evening of Hope fundraiser held virtually on Sept. 22.
A group of students is launching a mentorship program for women at UMass Chan Medical School, building on a mentoring program begun last year for learners traditionally underrepresented in medicine. Organizers say they see similar needs in these groups for guidance and personal connections between students and experienced medical science professionals.
Daniel Bolon, PhD, professor of biochemistry & molecular pharmacology, studies drug resistance in cancer cells.
His lab at UMass Chan Medical School works to systematically quantify the impacts of mutations on protein function.
“I study drug resistance so that we can prevent cancer from taking people that we love too soon,” Dr. Bolon said. “Because cancer is common and deadly, most of us have lost someone that we would have dearly loved to spend more time with.”
AMHERST, Mass. – New research, published in Nature and led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has just answered one of the fundamental questions about our universe: Why did some of the oldest, most massive galaxies go quiescent early in their formation? The answer, we now know, is because they ran out of cold gas.
AMHERST, Mass. – The results of a new survey published today detail the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on Vermont households, including disruptions in school and child care, inequitable divisions of household labor, increases in depression, anxiety and substance use and economic concerns.
“UMass Magazine” received three Gold awards and a Judge’s Choice award at the 2021 Creative Awards given by the Advertising Club of Western Massachusetts on Sept. 14.
AMHERST, Mass. – The University of Massachusetts Amherst is pleased to announce the creation of a seed fund by anonymous donors to support research of quantum information systems, including an anonymous lead gift in the amount of $5 million. The fund aims to bolster an existing creative and collaborative partnership between the College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) and the College of Engineering (COE) with the mission of solidifying UMass Amherst’s position in the cutting-edge field of quantum information systems.
Gloria DiFulvio, senior lecturer in health promotion and policy and undergraduate program director for the Public Health Sciences (PHS) program at the UMass Amherst School of Public Health and Health Sciences, has been selected by the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) as the winner of the 2021 Riegelman Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Public Health Education.
A new publication from Environmental Health Sciences (EHS) doctoral student Oladele “Amos” Oluwayiose has been selected as an extramural paper of the month for September by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS).