Chancellor Michael F. Collins announced that the University’s Board of Trustees has approved the appointment of three of faculty members to endowed chairs. They join more than 60 named chairs at UMass Chan.

In her preliminary studies, PhD student Megan Honeywell has found that cells can trigger a cell death even when they do not have the p53 protein, the so-called “guardian of the genome.”

The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Class of 2021 managed to complete their research despite having experiments halted for months by the COVID-19 pandemic. Heather Loring and James Shen reflect on the past year.