Please join Dr. Richard Berlin and awardees in celebrating the 20th Annual Berlin Prize for Creative Writing Award ceremony on Tuesday, March 26, from 6-8 p.m. in the Faculty Conference Room or on Zoom. Light refreshments will be served.
Please register to indicate if you’ll be attending in-person or via Zoom.
Mark your calendars for the next installment of Med Moth, happening this week on Wednesday, March 20th at 6:30 p.m. in the Albert Sherman Center Multi-Purpose Room (Cafeteria)! Med Moth is an event based on The Moth Story Hour where 6-8 members of the UMass Chan Community (SOM, GSN, GSBS, and Baystate) share stories for 5-10 minutes each. Each talk is about the speaker's journey into medicine, meaningful patient encounters, or other experiences that have shaped their personal or professional identity in health care.
On Wednesday, March 6, 2024 from 6-8 p.m. in the Lazare Auditorium (S1-607), UMass Chan Medical School, you are invited to come and engage with longtime UMass Chan faculty member Lucy Candib, and her co-author Will Miller around their book Family Doctors Say Goodbye.
This will be an interactive discussion with the authors about transitions in medicine and how one eventually winds down a career.
The Library’s first floor Computer Classroom will be closed, Monday, February 26, 2024, for hardware and software upgrades. Noise from necessary drilling will be kept to a minimum. Please remember that the 2nd and 3rd floors of the Library are available for studying.
UMass Chan IT announces the promotion of the new 6GHz (UMMS6) Service Set Identifier (SSID) for the Extreme Wi-Fi Network in the Library and in the Lazare Research Building (LRB). The new SSID can be accessed by devices that can utilize 6GHz. Some of the benefits include:
WDMS and the WDMS Alliance is collaborating with the Lamar Soutter Library at UMass Chan Medical School by hosting Dr. Mark Vonnegut, the author of The Heart of Caring, A Life in Pediatrics. Dr. Mark Vonnegut is a pediatrician at MVPediatrics Health and Wellness Center, Quincy, MA. Dr. Vonnegut will be speaking about his latest book and work as a pediatrician.
Date: May 24, 2023
Time: 5:30 p.m.
Place: Albert Sherman Center Auditorium, 55 Lake Ave. North, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA
The April Unsolved Pathologies Coffee House will be on Thursday, April 20, 2023, at 6:15 p.m. in the Lamar Soutter Library. Join us at 6:00 p.m. for coffee, tea, and snacks and at 6:15 p.m. for stories about the successes and challenges in the care and treatment of patients with high-risk breast cancer. For more information and an optional RSVP, see this Google form.
Take a break from studying and working and go to MedMoth!
MedMoth is a live storytelling event for all members of the UMass Chan communities and is based on "The Moth" podcast.
April 26th, 6:30 p.m.
ASC Multi-Purpose Room (Cafeteria)
Come listen to stories and enjoy light refreshments.
The next Unsolved Pathologies Coffee House will be on Thursday, January 19, 2023 at 6:30 p.m. in the Lamar Soutter Library. Join us for a series of stories and conversations in medicine and science from trainees here at the UMass Chan Medical School. Coffee, tea, and snacks will be provided. RSVP is optional; use the code in the image below, or go to https://forms.gle/1pyXpnVM8qeNugvSA.
The UMass Chan Department of Radiology and the NeuroNexus Institute invite you to hear Scott Britz-Cunningham, MD, PhD discuss his recently published book, Interface. The talk and book signing event will be held at the Lamar Soutter Library on Friday, December 9 from 12-1:30 p.m.
Brief remarks will begin at 12:15 p.m. on “The Digital Leviathan,” about how information technology and social media are affecting our society and human nature itself, which inspired Dr. Britz-Cunningham to write Interface.