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Katie Sanchez ’20 breathed a sigh of relief when she found out in early March that she’d been accepted into Boston Scientific’s financial leadership development program. The two-year rotation was scheduled to start in June, one month after Sanchez graduated with a degree in business administration from the .

Then the coronavirus pandemic hit, and Sanchez was holding her breath again.

Amid nationwide shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) for health care workers on the front lines of treating the novel coronavirus, the state quickly assembled a task force to help manufacturers pivot to producing masks, gowns, ventilators, swabs and testing equipment.

Xarielle Gittens had one complaint after participating in the ’ Global Entrepreneurship Exchange () program this summer.

“I didn’t want it to end,” said Gittens, a chemistry major from the University of Guyana. “I wish it could have lasted another week.”

Students liken the  to a family: It’s close-knit, everyone knows each other, and the professors are accessible and welcoming.

“The small department and the intimacy that I have with the economics professors, with one-on-one time, speaking to them outside of class and getting their help in really understanding the material, are the biggest reasons I decided to major in economics,” says rising senior .

UMass Medical School has been awarded grants totaling more than $100 million to coordinate the nationwide push for fast, accessible COVID-19 testing, playing a major role in the National Institutes of Health’s Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics, or RADx, program.

UMMS has already distinguished itself as an incubator for innovative point-of-care (POC) medical technology, which provides clinical information at the site where the patient is, through the Center for Advancing Point of Care Technologies, or CAPCaT, a partnership between the Medical School and UMass Lowell.

PhD candidate Kasturi Biswas had never been outside of India until 2018, when she flew 21 hours across the world to begin her studies in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at UMass Medical School.

“I’m from Kolkata, which is in West Bengal. That’s where I was raised,” Biswas said. “My uncle was a regarded scientist, and many people respected him. I was also a rather quiet kid. I spent my time reading the science books that my mother bought me.”

Pediatric endocrinologist Benjamin Nwosu, MD, led a UMass Medical School study which found that teens with type 1 diabetes whose glucose levels were continuously monitored were able to improve control of their blood sugar—which can be uncontrollably elevated during adolescence due to a phenomenon called physiologic hyperglycemia of puberty (PHOP).

As colleges and universities plan for the return of students for the fall semester amid the COVID-19 pandemic, one important element in keeping everyone safe is frequent testing for the virus, according to Chancellor Michael F. Collins in a July 30 opinion piece published in .

As high temperatures become more frequent and intense due to climate change, UMass Amherst scientists are developing interdisciplinary research aimed at helping communities increase resilience to extreme heat by monitoring physiological, mental and behavioral health factors.

This composite image shows the huge extent of a spiral galaxy’s magnetic field. Galaxy NGC 4217 is a star-formingspiral galaxy similar to the Milky Way. It is about 67 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major, according to astronomers in an international collaboration called CHANGES. The galaxy is seen edge-on in a visible-light image from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and Kitt Peak National Observatory. The magnetic field lines, in green, are revealed by Karl G.