The publication of Prof. Arie Perliger’s latest book, “American Zealots,” couldn’t feel more timely.
Arriving Aug. 18 to a nation divided by politics, protest and pandemic, the book examines the American far-right’s subculture of domestic terror and its reemergence in recent years.
The Lamar Soutter Library is reopening its doors at UMass Medical School on Monday, Aug. 3. Library staff have been working remotely through the pandemic, but one big project has taken place on site: completion of a long-planned interior renovation. In a serendipitous stroke of good timing, the redesigned work area also lends itself well to accommodating social distancing for COVID-19 precautions.
Executive Vice Chancellor of Commonwealth Medicine Lisa M. Colombo, DNP, MHA, RN, received an honorary Doctor of Science in Nursing degree from Worcester State University and delivered a heartfelt commencement address to more than 1,200 graduates during a virtual graduation ceremony on Saturday, July 25.
UMass Medical School psychopharmacology expert Anthony Rothschild, MD, will become an editor-in-chief of the Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology on Jan. 1, journal publisher Wolters Kluwer has announced.
Members of the School of Medicine Class of 2024 kicked off their UMass Medical School journey on Monday, Aug. 3, with a mostly virtual orientation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Chancellor Michael F. Collins welcomed the 162 students over a Zoom video conference.
Students in the School of Medicine Class of 2024 are connecting with their peers in virtual and in-person environments as they enter their second week at UMass Medical School, where a hybrid curriculum is underway due to the coronavirus pandemic.
UMass Medical School has been awarded a grant from the National Institute on Aging to develop a roadmap for developing clinical trials networks to study COVID-19 in nursing homes. Jerry Gurwitz, MD, the Dr. John Meyers Professor of Primary Care Medicine, professor of medicine and family medicine & community health, chief of the Division of Geriatric Medicine and executive director of the Meyers Primary Care Institute, will serve as principal investigator for the project.
Nili Amir, SOM ’21, an aspiring OB/GYN, was born at UMass Memorial Medical Center on Aug. 3, 1992. Last week, on her birthday, Amir had the privilege of helping to deliver babies at the same hospital.
The National Science Foundation this week announced a five-year, $26 million initial grant to a consortium led by the University of Arizona to form a new Engineering Research Center, the Center for Quantum Networks (CQN), with partners at Harvard, Yale and MIT, among others, and including Distinguished Professor Don Towsley of the College of Information and Computer Sciences.
Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) has named Michelle Farkas, chemistry, one of 13 new Fellows for its Scialog: Chemical Machinery of the Cell (CMC) initiative.