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Student Life, Impact
On the final day of the College Exploration Seminar, students gather at Lydon Library on North Campus to work on self-assessment exercises with seminar leader Anne Apigian.
On the final day of the College Exploration Seminar, students gather at Lydon Library on North Campus to work on self-assessment exercises with seminar leader Anne Apigian.

Despite some persistent encouragement from his family, Anthony Marifiot

Student Life
Symphonic Band Camp students play under a tent outside Durgin Hall on South Campus, where the camp returned this year after a one-year hiatus because of the pandemic.
Symphonic Band Camp students play under a tent outside Durgin Hall on South Campus, where the camp returned this year after a one-year hiatus because of the pandemic.

Ask Margaret Wall, 20, what she did when UML’s annual weeklong band camp was sc

Student Life
Camden Hedrick, left, and Jayla Josey
Camden Hedrick, left, and Jayla Josey have become "besties" through First to Launch, a new summer bridge program for first-generation college students.

Maddie Emond, an incoming computer science major from Dracut, Massachusetts, signed up for the&n

Leadership, Press Release

BOSTON - Dr. Mark Fuller, who has served as interim chancellor of UMass Dartmouth since January, was named permanent chancellor today. Dr.

Research
colorized, highly magnified view of a cluster of SARS-CoV-2 particles
This colorized, highly magnified view of a cluster of SARS-CoV-2 particles was captured with a transmission electron microscope.
Research
"Warning Tick Habitat" sign hangs on a tree post
Ticks can carry bacteria that cause Lyme disease.
Student Life, Impact

The 125th running of the Boston Marathon on Oct. 11 will have special significance for five runners raising money for UMass Medical School’s ALS Cellucci Fund.

“This is a monumental year because it is the 10th anniversary of the UMass ALS Cellucci Fund team participating in the Boston Marathon,” said Julie Bowditch, manager of community fundraising in the UMMS Office of Advancement. “Also, we are running the Boston Marathon the only time it is being held live in October.”

Impact, Research
Assoc. Prof. of Nursing Ainat Koren speaking with two students in class
Assoc. Prof.
Student Life

A School of Medicine student introduced to UMass Medical School through the Worcester Pipeline Collaborative is now in his second year at UMMS and remains very involved in the community of his adopted hometown.

Isaac Ofori, SOM ’24, was born in Ghana and has spent much of his life in Worcester. He and his family, including four siblings, moved to Worcester when he was in middle school.

Research

UMass Medical School researchers Guangping Gao, PhD, and Dan Wang, PhD, are working with ASC Therapeutics, a privately held biopharmaceutical company developing in-vivo gene replacement, gene editing and allogeneic cell therapies, to bring a gene therapy for maple syrup urine disease (MSUD) to the clinic.

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