UMass Medical School conferred 135 Doctor of Medicine degrees to the School of Medicine Class of 2020 during a virtual ceremony on Tuesday, March 31, that took place two months early, enabling the new doctors to join the ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº health care workforce immediately to help take on the unprecedented COVID-19 challenge.
The graduation ceremony was livestreamed via Facebook Live and Zoom. Chancellor Michael F. Collins conferred the degrees as Vice Provost of Student Affairs Sonia Chimienti announced each graduate.
It was a sudden, but thrilling change for the School of Medicine’s Class of 2020, graduating two months early from UMass Medical School with only a few days notice, allowing the new physicians to head into the work force early amid the spreading COVID-19 pandemic.
AMHERST, Mass. – In a new paper, Thomas Russell and postdoctoral fellow Ganhua Xie, at the ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº Amherst and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, report that they have used capillary forces to develop a simple method for producing self-assembling hanging droplets of an aqueous polymer solution from the surface of a second aqueous polymer solution in well-ordered arrays.
Since 2003, the Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation and Stephen Silliman, professor and chair of anthropology in the College of Liberal Arts at UMass Boston, have been running the Eastern Pequot Archaeological Field School as an archaeology, heritage, and education project. The Eastern Pequot Archaeological Field School is a community-engaged, collaborative historic and cultural preservation effort between the Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation and UMass Boston to study cultural and archaeological sites on the historic Eastern Pequot reservation.
Sophomore biology major Kingsly Mante Angua has a lot of things that he wants to do when he graduates from UMass Boston—like become a pediatric surgeon, or work with Doctors Without Borders, or go home to Ghana and build clinics and help fight malaria.
The fourth cohort of UMass Boston students graduated in the winter 2020 session of the Commonwealth Seminar on March 11 marking one year of the partnership between UMass Boston and the Commonwealth Seminar.
Dear students of UMassD,
In January, when we started our spring semester, no one could have predicted the situation in which we now find ourselves. In just a few weeks, the coronavirus has substantially changed the way our University and society at large operate. These changes have been incredibly disruptive to your academics, personal lives, and have dramatically altered your college experience.
This was not how our semester was supposed to end.
Midway through spring break, students learned that the campus would be switching completely to online classes, due to the rapid spread of .
Prof. has been awarded more than $4.5 million by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for his research on the Internet of Things, or IoT. This refers to the network of separate physical and virtual devices that communicate with each other wirelessly, without human interaction or intervention.
As CEO and chief scientific officer of Franklin, Mass.-based MRN Diagnostics, Gregory Chiklis has spent the past six weeks in a race against the clock, working on a rapid blood test for COVID-19.
Chiklis, who earned a Ph.D. in chemistry from UMass Lowell in 1992, has been working with Chembio Diagnostic Systems on a test designed to diagnose antibodies in people who have contracted the virus. His company’s work included creating synthetic antibodies to develop their tests and to run quality controls using safe noninfectious materials.