PhD candidate Hannah Rogers receives grant to study how brain integrates food cues to drive behavior PhD candidate Hannah Rogers received an NIH grant for her research examining how composite signals from neurons work to shape behavioral responses to food.

PhD candidate Hannah Rogers’ grant funded-research on food-search behavior may inform the development of future treatments for psychiatric and neurological disorders: direc.to/o84E

Rogers is a @umassamherst.bsky.social alumna.

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Worcester Free Care Collaborative Student Organization expands to meet community need for medical care Most first-year medical students are involved in the Worcester Free Care Collaborative, which this year served more than 6,500 patients.

This year the Worcester Free Care Collaborative provided free medical services to more than 6,500 people, up 18 percent from 2024. The Worcester Free Care Collaborative Student Organization has added student leaders to meet the need: direc.to/ofJF

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Group of new inductees into the Delta chapter of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society

Alpha Omega Alpha cords

Family with inductee

Faculty inductee Melissa Fischer, MD, MEd, with Dean Terence Flotte, MD

Fifty-six people were inducted into the Delta chapter of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society on Wednesday. View the list of inductees and read their stories of leadership, mentorship and perseverance: direc.to/nAzL

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UMass Chan medical students build equity, health and community at Worcester Earn-A-Bike Second-year medical students Hoang Vo and Diego Marroquin spend several hours a month volunteering at Worcester Earn-a-Bike.

Two UMass Chan medical students are repairing donated bicycles and mentoring local youth involved with Worcester Earn-A-Bike as part of a medical school curriculum geared toward making an impact on the local community: direc.to/nAcG

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Gift of life: First-year medical student donates stem cells during first week of school In his first week of medical school at UMass Chan, Mukund Desibhatla, MPH, attended orientation in Worcester and donated blood stem cells in Boston.

His first week as a UMass Chan Medical School student, Mukund Desibhatla, MPH, drove from orientation in Worcester to Boston to donate blood stem cells through @nmdp-org.bsky.social: direc.to/nJT1

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Samara Vilca receives Burroughs Wellcome Fund postdoc diversity enrichment award Samara Vilca, PhD, is one of 30 postdoctoral researchers in the country to be selected to receive the award.

Samara Vilca, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Ryan Logan, PhD, is one of 30 in the U.S. to receive a Postdoctoral Diversity Enrichment Award from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund: direc.to/n13x

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UMass Chan Gold Humanism Honor Society inducts 39 members The UMass Chan Medical School chapter of the Gold Humanism Honor Society welcomed 39 new members on Wednesday, May 28.

UMass Chan Medical School’s chapter of the Gold Humanism Honor Society inducted 39 new members on Wednesday. View the list of inductees: direc.to/nn17

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Graphic with photos of Michael F. Collins, MD; Marlina Duncan, EdD; Victor R. Ambros, PhD, and Cherise Hamblin, MD, says UMass Chan community members on WBJ's Power 100 list

Four UMass Chan community members are on the Worcester Business Journal’s Power 100 list: Chancellor Michael F. Collins, Marlina Duncan, EdD, Victor R. Ambros, PhD, and Cherise Hamblin, MD: direc.to/nkfB

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Graphic says Farmers market and food trucks, Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. June 3-Nov. 4

The farmers market and food trucks return to UMass Chan on Tuesday, June 3: direc.to/ngLa

The market, which will run most Tuesdays through Nov. 4, will offer fresh produce, baked goods and specialty items from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society inductees celebrated for leadership, community engagement, research The student inductees to the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society were lauded for dedication to vulnerable populations, curriculum development and climate change.

UMass Chan’s chapter of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society inducted and honored 31 students in the T.H. Chan School of Medicine Class of 2025, faculty, alumni and residents on Wednesday: direc.to/m4M2

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Guangping Gao, PhD

Jennifer Adair, PhD

UMass Chan Medical School’s new Department of Genetic & Cellular Medicine is the first gene and cell therapy academic department in the country. Read about founding chair Guangping Gao, PhD, and vice chair Jennifer Adair, PhD: direc.to/m44d

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