Chancellor Michael F. Collins expressed confidence in the planned phased return to work at UMass Medical School in his weekly video address on Monday, May 18.
“I want to serve as a role model. I hope young people think, ‘If she can do it, then so can I.’”
Salome Funes, PhD candidate in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, is a first -generation college student who came to the United States from Ecuador in 2016 to matriculate at UMMS in the Translational Science Program. Now, as vice president of the UMMS chapter of the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS), Funes is working to teach other young women about careers in science.
Deborah Mack, a PhD student in the Clinical & Population Health Research Program in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences has received the 2020 American Geriatrics Society Scientist-in-Training Research Award. She received the award for her outstanding abstract, submitted to the 2020 AGS Annual Meeting.
Six faculty members were recognized for excellence across the career spectrum during the 2020 Women’s Faculty Awards. Colleen Harrington, MD, assistant professor of medicine; Seema Adhami, MD, associate professor of pediatrics and neurology; Carolynn DeBenedectis, MD, associate professor of radiology; Anastasia Khvorova, PhD, professor of RNA therapeutics; Suzanne Cashman, ScD, professor of family medicine & community health; and Jennifer Bradford, MD, assistant professor of family medicine & community health, were honored in online proceedings on Monday, May 18.
Jennifer A. Benanti, PhD, associate professor of molecular, cell & cancer biology, was recently awarded a federal Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award, or MIRA grant, to advance her lab’s study of molecular mechanisms of cell cycle control, a key factor in understanding cancer development.
Pointing to the financial hardships that many Massachusetts families are facing and in consultation with campus chancellors, UMass President Marty Meehan today said he will recommend a tuition freeze for the university’s nearly 50,000 in-state undergraduate students during the upcoming academic year.
On Wednesday, May 27, from 2:30-4 p.m., the Graduate School will host a webinar on “imposter syndrome” featuring Valerie Young, internationally-known expert, author and UMass alumna.
Impostor syndrome describes the belief that accomplishments (good grades, degrees, tenure, promotions, awards) are largely a function of timing, luck, connections or other external factors. Left unchecked, this fear of being “found out” can undermine academic progress and professional success.
Robert S. Cox, head of Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) at the UMass Amherst Libraries for the past 16 years, died May 11 after an extended illness. He was 61 years old.
The UMass Chamber Choir, directed by Tony Thornton, has been selected as a National Finalist for this year’s American Prize in Choral Performance in the College and University Division. Thornton also conducts the Illuminati Vocal Arts Ensemble, based in Amherst, which was selected as a Finalist in the Community Division.
Viviana Chiu-Sik Wu, of the School of Public Policy faculty, has received a research grant from the Generosity Commission to study the “philanthropic gap” across the US, with a particular focus on how nonprofits that serve disadvantaged communities are affected. Wu is the project’s principal investigator.