When SARS-CoV-2 required lab activity at UMass Medical School to ramp down and initially send all but essential staff home on March 13, 2020, the experiments Heather Loring, a PhD candidate in the GSBS Class of 2021, had been doing toward her dissertation were put on hold. And she had no idea when she’d be allowed to return to campus to start back up again.

The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences recognized student scientists for academic achievement, mentoring, service and scholarship during a hybrid awards ceremony on Thursday, June 3. A new award for justice, equity, diversity and inclusion leadership was presented for the first time.

Terence R. Flotte, MD, the Celia and Isaac Haidak Professor, executive deputy chancellor, provost and dean of the School of Medicine, began his opening remarks by drawing parallels between the search for the cause of influenza and for COVID-19.

Completing a graduate nursing degree is a great challenge and a great achievement – especially during a once-in-a-century pandemic. The Graduate School of Nursing Class of 2021 celebrated its accomplishments at the annual pre-Commencement GSN Graduation Celebration on Thursday, June 3. Many faculty and students came together at the ceremony in the Albert Sherman Center Auditorium while others, along with family and friends, joined remotely via Zoom.

Eighty high school students from across New England and New York will get a chance to learn about cybersecurity during a free, two-week virtual camp this summer.

A recent discovery by a research team that includes Kennedy College of Sciences Prof. 

Joseph Sheedy was in love with learning.

He never passed up an opportunity to figure out another piece of the world. Sometimes, he took folks with him, ready or not.

Summer is coming. Roughly one-half of the United States population is vaccinated against COVID-19. Many are itching to venture out from their 14-month global pandemic hibernation to travel and visit friends and family again.

According to UMass Medical School’s infection control officer, Sharone Green, MD, a safe vacation starts with preparation, research and awareness of one’s own risk and risks to others.

As the nation’s only nonprofit FDA-licensed manufacturer of vaccines and biologics, MassBiologics is a special part of UMass Medical School, one with unique potential to improve the health of people around the globe. With this special mission in mind, Chancellor Michael F.

Several United States senators visited the National Institutes of Health at its Bethesda, Maryland, campus on May 17 for a tour of its Vaccine Research Center and discussion of COVID-19 initiatives, including the National Institutes of Health Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics initiative, or RADx.

UMass Medical School researchers continue to play a key role in clinical trials to support development of convenient, affordable and rapid COVID-19 testing through RADx.