Dear Students, Faculty and Staff,
The transition to remote learning resulting from the COVID-19 emergency has caused significant disruption to students’ educational experience this semester. Recognizing this unprecedented situation, UMass Dartmouth faculty and administration have authorized revised academic policy changes to provide students with greater flexibility in progressing in their degrees.
For the spring 2020 semester, students will be allowed to:
Prof. Susanna Remold, the new chair of the Department of Biological Sciences, is an expert on the evolution and ecology of disease-causing microbes that can move from animal to human hosts.
Senior public health major Katherine Mayer, an EMT, wanted to help UMass Lowell’s Emergency Management team with “something they didn’t have yet” for her Honors College capstone.
For years, Chancellor Michael F. Collins has stressed one fundamental message to all students: “It is privilege to care for our patients.” Now, for members of the School of Medicine Class of 2020, that honor has come sooner than expected and these new physicians are telling news media across the country that they are ready to serve.
Third-year medical students at UMass Medical School are getting real-time lessons in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic—a topic not covered in medical textbooks—through an innovative online pandemic curriculum.
The interprofessional course is designed to help medical students understand the multidimensional nature of disaster and pandemic response through virtual experiences with members of the clinical, scientific and public health communities, according to Melissa Fischer, MD, MEd, professor of medicine and associate dean for undergraduate medical education.
A group of third- and fourth-year School of Medicine students learned the nuts and bolts of telehealth at UMass Memorial Medical Center last week so they can step in and help patients and providers with routine patient visits remotely.
The move to remote learning has meant big changes for all UMass Lowell students. But many are also coping with drastic financial changes, says Julie Nash, vice provost for academic affairs.
In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, she says, some students watched their financial safety nets vanish almost overnight.
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 Massachusetts 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 University of Massachusetts 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.