Sage Foley, PhD candidate in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, presented her research at a virtual event hosted by Karen Edelblum, PhD, of Rutgers University, called “Guts & Bugs: A Virtual GI Seminar Series.” The seminar features scientists and graduate students from all over the world and serves as a platform for scientific discourse during a time of social distancing. Foley’s session took place on June 11.

The stages in which ribosomes synthesize life-sustaining proteins have been revealed in unprecedented real-time detail by UMass Medical School structural biologists Andrei Korostelev, PhD, and Anna Loveland, PhD. Their new study of this fundamental molecular mechanism, captured using state-of-the-art, time-resolved, cryo-electron microscopy was published by the journal Nature on July 1.

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.

Assistant Professor of Special Education Kristin Murphy was honored Wednesday during a special Zoom ceremony as one of five University of Massachusetts faculty to receive the 2020 Manning Prize for Excellence in Teaching.

The five UMass faculty members—one from each campus—will receive $10,000 awards in recognition of their commitment to exemplary teaching and dedication to students.

“Today I am so lucky. I love my job,” Murphy said. “I work with students at UMass Boston who remind me of who I was when I was starting my career.”

Lorena Estrada-Martinez, an assistant professor of environment and public health in the School for the Environment (SFE), recently received an $800,000 three-year grant from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to conduct a study called “Community Driven Assessment of Environmental Health Risks in Vieques, Puerto Rico.” 

Mai-Lan Rogoff, MD, professor of psychiatry, is one of five University of Massachusetts faculty awarded the 2020 Manning Prize for Excellence in Teaching for outstanding dedication to students and the university. One faculty member from each UMass campus is chosen for the award and given $10,000 in recognition of his or her sustained excellence in teaching and exemplary contributions to the campus community.

In recent months, even as our attention has been focused on the coronavirus outbreak, there have been a slew of scientific breakthroughs in treating diseases that cause blindness.

UMass Medical School biomedical research scientist Celia Schiffer, PhD, has been selected as a fellow of the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) program at Drexel University College of Medicine. Now in its 26th year, ELAM is the country’s only in-depth fellowship dedicated to preparing senior women faculty at schools of medicine, dentistry, public health and pharmacy to lead and manage in today's complex health care environment, with special attention to the unique challenges facing women in leadership positions.

AMHERST, Mass. – The University of Massachusetts Amherst today announced its Fall 2020 Reopening Plan, noting that while almost all of the university’s courses will be taught remotely this fall, students will be given the option to live on campus under exacting public health restrictions.