The $175 million gift from The Morningside Foundation to UMass Chan Medical School was announced and lauded on Tuesday, Sept. 7, with a special meeting of the UMass Board of Trustees, a morning press event at the UMass Club in Boston and an afternoon celebration on the Worcester campus.

Editor’s note: The following are the remarks made by Gerald Chan, on behalf of The Morningside Foundation, on Tuesday, Sept. 7, at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, during the campus celebration recognizing the $175 million gift from The Morningside Foundation.  

It gives me great pleasure in representing The Morningside Foundation to join in the celebration today. Terrible restrictions from the pandemic have prevented my family members from being here and leaving me as the sole representative of the family.

UMass Medical School appears on Forbes’ 2021 edition of its America’s Best Employers by State list. Forbes has ranked the Medical School No. 39 among Massachusetts employers. Forbes partnered with Statista Inc., the statistics portal and industry ranking provider, to develop lists for all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

The benefits of the COVID-19 vaccine for pregnant women and their babies are backed by solid, ongoing research, according to UMass Medical School chair and professor of obstetrics & gynecology Tiffany A. Moore Simas, MD, MPH, MEd.

For UMass Medical School researcher Jae-Hyuck Shim, PhD, seeing the strength of families who have a child with a rare, crippling disease motivates him to develop a gene therapy that will help afflicted children retain mobility and be free from debilitating pain. He is also spurred by his own experience as a child, when he was diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.

Joint statement from Michael F. Collins, MD,  Chancellor, UMass Medical School, and Senior Vice President for the Health Sciences, UMass; Eric Dickson, MD, President & CEO, UMass Memorial Health; and Terence R. Flotte, MD, Executive Deputy Chancellor, Provost, UMass Medical School, and Dean, School of Medicine, on the death of Robert W. Finberg, MD.

A team of students from the UMass Amherst College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS), led by doctoral student Ryan McKenna and including graduate students Joie Wu, Arisa Tajima, Brett Mullins, Siddhant Pradhan and Cecilia Ferrando, recently won $43,000 in prize money in the 2020 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Differential Privacy Temporal Map Challenge.

AMHERST, Mass. – David Sela, a nutrition scientist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has received a five-year, $1.69 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to investigate how nitrogen in human milk is used by beneficial microbes in the infant gut to potentially play an important role in pediatric nutrition and development.

For the sixth year in a row, the University of Massachusetts Boston has been ranked in the top tier of national universities, according to a report released today by U.S. News and World Report. The school’s undergraduate nursing program was also ranked among the best in the country in the first-ever rankings of such programs by U.S. News, coming in strongly at No. 43. 

When a student struggles with behavior in the classroom, how should an educator try to solve it? 

It depends on who you ask. 

A researcher might say to use a research-based solution – also known as an intervention – to address the issue. A teacher, on the other hand, might say those solutions are too cumbersome, and are hard to implement in the moment.