Today I’m celebrating six years since my last drink.

Looking forward to @UMassChan's new podcast series, Rare Diseases, Real Stories. The series shines a spotlight on the courage, resilience and advocacy work of families affected by rare diseases. Check out the trailer below. All episodes drop Feb. 10!

On Monday, @UMassChan celebrated its 37th annual Martin Luther King Celebration of Service, awarding 4 Student Service Awards and the Chancellor’s Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: @UMassDiversity

The Department of Psychiatry at @UMassChan is now the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences: “It’s a profound message to all the people in the department that ‘We value you.’" @UMassPsychiatry

Pipeline Dreams, a new program introducing 33 Worcester area high school students to careers in health, science and racial health disparities research kicked off on Jan. 15, with an opening ceremony at @UMassChan:

Deputy Chief Nancy O'Loughlin and Officer Cameron Caldwell of the @UMassChan Public Safety Department are being recognized by @MACLEA_MA for going above and beyond in their commitment to serve and protect the campus community:

“...It’s a breakthrough in how we think about the way the exocyst complex works." - @mary_munson4 Check out the details of Dr. Munson's study, recently published in @NatureSMB, here: @UMassChan_BMB @UMassChan

Imari Paris Jeffries Ph.D., president and CEO of @EmbraceBOS, will serve as the keynote speaker at @UMassChan's 37th annual tribute in honor of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday, Jan. 27: @askimari @UMassDiversity

Chancellor Michael F. Collins was in attendance at the opening ceremony of the @WHO Academy, which was celebrated in December in Lyon, France: @UMassChan

RT @ZoandBertrand: Robert Kraft statement on the firing of Jerod Mayo:

“This is a very exciting and important moment for @UMassChan." The @UMassChanLib is celebrating the arrival of the historical medical painting, "The First Operation Under Ether," by American artist Robert C. Hinckley:

A program focused on health coaching and using technology to increase physical activity and address obesity is among four projects named as the inaugural winners of the Mel Cutler Population Health Pilot Research Award at @UMassChan:

RT @gettinglostdoc: "Getting LOST" is now available on demand through @Amazon in the US & UK (more countries soon) and available worldwide…

“We are indeed among the leaders in gene and cell therapy in the country and in the world, and this transition to an academic department will only further distinguish the work being done here at @UMassChan."

On campus at @UMassChan, a watch party showed the live @NobelPrize ceremony broadcast from Stockholm on Tuesday, and the sweet sounds of history being made as Victor Ambros, PhD, co-recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, was honored:

RT @UMassChan: In @WBJournal: A collaboration between @UMassChan’s Office of Sustainability, @UMassDiversity and @UMassChanLib aims to spre…

On campus at @UMassChan, the whirlwind of festivities honoring Victor Ambros, PhD, will continue with a Nobel Prize award ceremony watch party at 10 a.m. on Dec. 10. The watch party is open to all members of the campus community:

The Office of Sustainability, @UMassDiversity, and @UMassChanLib are collaborating to create an environmental justice program to highlight the disproportionate impact of climate change on marginalized communities: @UMassChan

The Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center at @UMassChan will welcome a new leader, Sarabeth Broder-Fingert, MD, MPH, starting in Jan. 2025. Jean Frazier, MD, will step down as executive director at the end of this year:

The Nobel Prize celebration continued in our nation’s capital on Thursday for @UMassChan researcher Victor Ambros, PhD, co-recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine at the 2024 Nobel Prize Symposium at the Embassy of Sweden: @NobelPrize