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UMass Medical School clinician-scientist Jason Shohet, MD, PhD, accepted a $300,000 grant on Monday, Sept. 23, from the Hyundai Motor America Hope on Wheels campaign to continue his work toward developing more effective and less toxic therapies for childhood cancers with a special focus on neuroblastoma.

Graduate School of Nursing student Kathleen Schultz, MS, has been honored by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation for Humanism with the first prize for nursing students in its 2019 Hope Babette Tang Humanism in Healthcare Essay Contest. The third-year Doctor of Nursing Practice student wrote the winning essay, "Humanism Made Visible," for an assignment to reflect on an interaction with a veteran for the GSN's Veterans' Health Interprofessional Education course.

UMass Boston junior Urwah Kanwal, the winner of this year’s John W. Ryan Award, plans to earn an MD/PhD after graduation so that she can help lower health care costs.

“I think it’s connected with research. So if we do research and we get to know the cheapest way to get medicines, then doctors can play their role. So that’s my goal,” Kanwal said.

In fiscal year 2019, UMass Dartmouth increased externally funded grant awards by 26 percent over fiscal year 2018, bringing the university’s total research and outreach awards for the year to $16 million.

“This increase in research funding is testament to the expertise and passion for discovery of our world-class faculty,” said Chancellor Robert E. Johnson. “Our faculty and the students they teach are applying their research to regional and global issues that will have impacts across generations.”

Coming off the first Frozen Four appearance in program history, defending national runner-up �鶹��Ƶ hockey opens up the 2019-20 season Friday, Oct. 11 at the Mullins Center against Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). The Minutemen will raise a pair of banners prior to the 7 p.m. faceoff commemorating the team's major accomplishments from last season - winning the Hockey East regular season championship and their appearance in the national championship game.

Nursing advocacy organization RegisteredNursing.org analyzed 440 online RN-BSN programs in the United States this summer and determined that  is the  and the . Nursing programs were assessed on several factors which represent how well a program supports students

Statement from UMass President Marty Meehan on the passing of former Trustee MarDee Xifaras

How do you pronounce “Worcester” and “Gloucester”?

A dozen new international students laughed as they watched a video that demonstrated that most Americans don’t know how to say the names of several �鶹��Ƶ cities.

“It is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean.” —President John F. Kennedy, Sept. 14, 1962, Newport, R.I.

Nearly 40 years into the HIV epidemic, the  finds there are still about 40,000 new infections a year. Three-quarters of new infections are discovered in people of color and two-thirds are in sexual minority (gay and bisexual) men. Professor of Psychology  has made it his life’s work to be part of the public health response to the virus.