The days are getting shorter, but a busy stretch of campus is staying well-lit at night, thanks to the installation of new solar-powered streetlights.
Lawrence Madoff, MD, has received the 2021 D.A. Henderson Award for Outstanding Contributions to Public Health. Established by the Infectious Diseases Society of America in 2017, the award recognizes a lifetime of achievement in public health in honor of Dr. Henderson, who led the successful eradication of smallpox.
On Thursday, Oct. 14, at the UMass Chan Medical School virtual event, Quinsigamond Community College President Luis Pedraja, PhD, brought Hispanic Heritage Month to a close with his talk, “The Other Pandemic: Systemic Racism and the Latinx Community.” Dr. Pedraja said the lack of access to quality health care, education and resources has long been a barrier to the well-being of Hispanic-Americans, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The worldwide spread of influenza came to a screeching halt in March 2020, when schools, businesses and daily life shut down because of the COVID-19 pandemic. But it is expected to come back strongly this fall and winter, making flu vaccination more essential than ever.
A research team led by David Smelson, PsyD, professor of psychiatry and director of the Center of Excellence in Addiction, was awarded a $12.3 million, four-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to study components of a multidisciplinary team-based, wrap-around treatment program for adults with opioid use disorders and co-occurring mental illness.
On October 8 and 9, more than a thousand members of the UMass Dartmouth community including hundreds of alumni celebrated Corsair pride on campus during Blue & Gold Weekend.
A team of UMass Lowell faculty, led by Public Health Department Chairman
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