The old radio tower was the first structure to fall. The demolition team wedge-cut two of the tower’s steel supports and dropped it like a tree.

Then the former Massachusetts Department of Transportation (DOT) District 3 office in Worcester was demolished, bite by bite from the hydraulic maw of an excavator, to make way for the new medical building that will house the VA Central Western Massachusetts Healthcare System’s new community-based outpatient clinic (CBOC) at UMass Medical School.

BOSTON – UMass President Marty Meehan and the chancellors of the UMass campuses in Amherst, Boston Dartmouth, and Lowell announced today that the university will adjust student room, board and parking fees following the closure of residence halls in response to the coronavirus threat.

UMass Boston’s Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality (WGS) Studies Department dedicated this Women’s History Month to promoting feminism and activism; however, due to the coronavirus, students and faculty have been working and learning from home since mid-March, halfway through the celebratory month.

Graduate student Rebecca Olivieri usually teaches a group fitness class to around 20 students, faculty and staff every Thursday at noon at the Campus Recreation Center.

Leading the 45-minute interval training class is a nice way for the Milton native to apply what she learns in her Doctor of Physical Therapy program, while also connecting with others and making a little extra money as a student employee.

Anastasia Khvorova, PhD, professor of RNA therapeutics at UMass Medical School, spoke to Discover magazine last week about new efforts in her lab to develop a vaccine using RNA-based therapies against COVID-19, the disease causes by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

As children’s regular routines are upended during the COVID-19 pandemic, they turn to the adults in their lives for emotional as well as physical safety. A newly released resource guide co-authored by UMass Medical School child psychologist and trauma-informed care leader Jessica Griffin, PsyD, and colleagues at the national child welfare research center Child Trends offers research-informed guidance for caretakers.

Stating that “Graduating medical students are ready: let’s get them to work,” Chancellor Michael F. Collins announced that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has approved a bold and unprecedented initiative to accelerate the graduation of UMass Medical School’s fourth-year School of Medicine students, thereby providing them with the opportunity to begin their careers as physicians three months early and at a most critical time when they will be able to promptly shore up hospital medical staff.

AMHERST, Mass. – Urgent research at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is investigating whether health care providers can safely reuse protective face masks, which could slow the Covid-19 pandemic and ease a critical equipment shortage endangering medical workers and patients worldwide.

Testing for COVID-19, more commonly known as the coronavirus, is critical given the current global pandemic.

Paulette Renault-Caragianes offers a clear, steady voice for uncertain times.