As the global pandemic closed the doors of schools, offices and public buildings worldwide, online teleconference platforms, such as Zoom, WebEx, Teams and many more have become the places where people gather to get work done. Yet, as anyone who has dragged themselves to back-to-back meetings or wrestled with the mute button knows, online conferencing software brings its own malady—so-called “Zoom burnout.”  Worse, the move to online work can exacerbate feelings of isolation.

A year after holding its Qualifying Exam Recognition Ceremony on Zoom, the Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at UMass Chan Medical School gathered in the Albert Sherman Center Auditorium on Tuesday, Sept.

The transformative $175 million gift to UMass Chan Medical School from The Morningside Foundation is significant not only because of the macro institutional impact it will make, but because of the lives it will touch in personal ways.

UMass Chan Medical School’s Diversity and Inclusion Office facilitated the first of its “Centering the Margins” series on Wednesday, Sept. 15, with a discussion focused on a land acknowledgement for the Nipmuc Nation.

“This series is a time and a space for us to have informal dialogue around the unique experiences related to diverse communities,” said Marlina Duncan, EdD, vice chancellor for diversity and inclusion.

This year’s annual Steven Putterman Lecture, organized by UMass Chan Medical School’s Department of Family Medicine & Community Health, “Moving Towards Health Equity: Why Anti-racism Must Be a Core Value in Medicine,” was presented on Sept. 21 by J. Nwando Olayiwola, MD, MPH.