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Incoming medical students should pay heed to what faculty tell them during orientation. Benjamin Cook, SOM ’21, from Andover, recalled being told by Michael Ennis, MD, professor of family medicine & community health and assistant dean for student affairs, “Look to your left and look to your right. One of you is never going to leave Worcester.”

Research

Preliminary data published this month from a surveillance project conducted at UMass Medical School, evaluating the effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines, played a critical role in new guidelines by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that no longer require fully vaccinated individuals to wear masks indoors or to socially distance from others. On May 29, fully vaccinated individuals in Massachusetts will no longer need to wear masks inside.

Research
Carly McCann
Carly McCann

AMHERST, Mass.

Research

AMHERST, Mass. – New research by University of Massachusetts Amherst astronomer Daniel Wang reveals, with unprecedented clarity, details of violent phenomena in the center of our galaxy.

Student Life, Impact
Faculty members, from left, Carole Salmon, Brent Shell and Leslie Farris
Faculty members, from left, Carole Salmon, Brent Shell and Leslie Farris were among the 27 'OERscar' winners, which recognized those who save students money by using open educational resources in their courses.

They didn’t receive a shiny statue like at the Academy Awards, but for the 27 UMass Lowell faculty members recently honored at the university’s first “OERscars” ceremony,

Student Life
Graduating seniors, left to right from top row, Daryle LaMonica, Jillian Roberts, David Long, Kaitlin Whiteman, David Nguyen, Kanya Derisme, Leslie Marrero and Tiffany Miller
Graduating seniors, left to right from top row, Daryle LaMonica, Jillian Roberts, David Long, Kaitlin Whiteman, David Nguyen, Kanya Derisme, Leslie Marrero and Tiffany Miller talk about their undergraduate experiences at UMass Lowell during a roundtable discussion on Zoom.
Student Life, Impact
Through her job with the civil engineering firm TEC, transportation engineering graduate student Jenna Howard '19 is leading the design of UML's Pawtucket Greenway, which will improve the connection between South Campus and the rest of the university.
Through her job with the civil engineering firm TEC, transportation engineering graduate student Jenna Howard '19 is leading the design of UML's Pawtucket Greenway, which will improve the connection between South Campus
Leadership

Sandra Lim had mostly put aside her curiosity about the award. 

Then, on the morning of April 8, came an email telling the UMass Lowell associate professor of English and award-winning poet that she was one of 184 artists, writers, scholars and scientists to receive a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship, the prestigious grant designed to allow recipients — “exceptional individuals”— a period to toil in creative freedom.

Student Life
The university is adding hammock gardens, similar to the one pictured here, to the Campus Recreation Center lawn on East Campus and outside Sheehy Hall on South Campus this summer.
The university is adding hammock gardens, similar to the one pictured here, to the Campus Recreation Center lawn on East Campus and outside Sheehy Hall on South Campus this summer.

When students return to campus this fall, they’ll be able to study in swayi

Education, Student Life

AMHERST, Mass. – The Graduate School at the University of Massachusetts Amherst conferred 2,016 advanced degrees this afternoon at a Commencement ceremony at the Warren P. McGuirk Alumni Stadium on campus.

Graduates and their guests gathered late this afternoon for the commencement ceremony, which was moved outdoors this year due to COVID-19 safety protocols. A photo tribute to the graduates was also part of the ceremony.

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