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UMass Medical School-Baystate faculty leader Amy S. Gottlieb, MD, has been named recipient of the 2020 Elnora Rhodes Service Award by the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM). The award recognizes the highest level of service to the society and is given annually to an individual for outstanding service in upholding its mission of clinical care, research, education and community service in primary care internal medicine. 

The 15th annual Physician-Scientist Retreat at UMass Medical School was held March 6, shining a light on students working to complete medical and biomedical sciences doctoral degrees through the Medical Scientist Training Program.

It’s a day dedicated to inspiring prospective students and engaging faculty, alumni and students. The program can take up to 10 years to finish, as MD/PhD students pursue both of their degrees through the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and School of Medicine.

UMass Medical School perinatal depression expert Nancy Byatt, DO, is a principal investigator for a national study that will evaluate which components of three innovative programs for pregnant and postpartum women with depression are most effective. The three-year, $4.1 million  award from the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute will be led by Dr.

Chancellor Michael F. Collins addresses the UMass Medical School community in a new video filmed on Monday, March 16, as the campus begins “a new paradigm to the way we work, interact and advance our mission areas. Distance learning and remote working will be the new normal and instituting these rather sudden changes will require the cooperation, collaboration and collegiality of each and every one of you.” Watch the video to hear how UMass Medical School is responding to the COVID-19 epidemic.

BOSTON – UMass President Marty Meehan, after a period of intense planning with the campus chancellors, today informed the Board of Trustees that the five UMass campuses will shift to a virtual mode of instruction beginning March 16. Most of the university’s 75,000 students will not be on campus for a period that will last at least through April 3.

AMHERST, Mass. – The public is invited to celebrate the beginning of spring and to view several celestial sights at the UMass Amherst Sunwheel on Thursday, March 19. In addition to the accustomed talks at 6:45 a.m. and 6 p.m. at sunrise and sunset among the standing stones, UMass Amherst astronomers will offer telescope views of the moon and planets beginning at about 6 a.m. and 7:30 p.m., weather permitting.

The UMass Dartmouth Observatory opens to the public on a monthly basis during the University's Fall and Spring semesters. Visitors can view the night sky through the observatory's 16-inch telescope and other telescopes operated by community members of the Astronomical Society of Southern New England. Admission is free. Children are welcome to attend, if accompanied by an adult.

Dates/times of spring 2020 observatory viewing nights:

In 2013, Jacquie Moloney asked Nina Coppens if there was anything she could do for her. Coppens’ battle with brain cancer was near its end.

Coppens, 62, said one thing to her longtime friend and colleague. 

“Paint, Jacquie. Paint.”

The chancellor recalled the moment with emotion at the dedication of a painting of Coppens on a wall of the O’Leary Library mezzanine. It is a large work, 16 feet wide by 6 feet tall, made by a trio of art students too young to have known Coppens. But they got to know her during the painting process.

According to the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM), the ����ӰԺ ranked fourth among all U.S. institutions and third among universities for generating income from the licensing of faculty-derived discoveries and products in FY 2018, the most recent year for which figures are available. UMass reported licensing revenue of approximately $146 million; the only universities that reported higher totals for that time period were the University of California system and Northwestern University.

AMHERST, Mass. – For the fourth year in a row, the Online MBA offered by the Isenberg School of Management at the ����ӰԺ Amherst topped the rankings of U.S. programs—and came out number three in the world—in the “Financial Times” survey.

Isenberg has offered an AACSB-accredited MBA degree program entirely online since 2001, making it one of the most well-established and robust online degrees in the country. Currently, more than 1,100 students are enrolled in the program.