Photo: Faith Ninivaggi
As the UMass Chan Medical School community prepares to celebrate the Classes of 2025 at Commencement on Sunday, June 1, members will gather for award ceremonies that honor faculty and graduating students.
On Thursday, May 29, the Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences will host its 16th annual Student Academic Achievement Awards ceremony at 3 p.m. in the Albert Sherman Center Cube.
On Friday, May 30, the Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing will host its awards and scholarship presentations at 11 a.m. in the Faculty Conference Room in the Medical School building.
Also on Friday, the T.H. Chan School of Medicine Alumni Association will host its annual awards ceremony at 9 a.m. in the Sherman Center multipurpose room. Student awards and outstanding medical educator awards will be presented, and the members of the Class of 2025 will be welcomed as alumni.
Also on Friday, the Diversity and Inclusion Office and the Inclusive Excellence Student Council will hold its annual Deborah Harmon Hines, PhD, Commencement Celebration in honor of Deborah Harmon Hines, PhD, retired vice provost for school services and professor emeritus of radiology and nursing. Dr. Hines developed and nurtured the Medical School’s renowned pipeline programs, including the Worcester Pipeline Collaborative. Graduating students from communities that have historically faced systemic barriers in science and health care careers from all three schools will be recognized. The event is open to all graduating students and families, faculty and staff at 6 p.m. in the Albert Sherman Center Cube.
On Sunday, June 1, National Academy of Sciences president Marcia McNutt, PhD, will deliver the Commencement address as UMass Chan Medical School celebrates its 52nd Commencement and the Classes of 2025.
Dr. McNutt is a geophysicist and the first woman to lead the National Academy of Sciences, which she has done since 2016.
In addition to McNutt, honorary degrees will be presented to Carolyn Clancy, MD’79, assistant under secretary for health in the U.S. Veterans Health Administration; and Majid Jafar and Lynn Barghout Jafar, co-founders of the Loulou Foundation.
Class speakers include Christopher Zaro for the T.H. Chan School of Medicine, Clevanne Julce for the Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Jennifer Konjoian for the Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing. Academic degrees will be awarded to 265 students.
Commencement will take place under a tent on the campus green in front of the Paul J. DiMare Center. Guest seating will begin at 10:30 a.m. with the processional starting at 11:45 a.m. The ceremony will begin promptly at noon and will be livestreamed on YouTube.
Highlights and photos of the week’s events will be posted on the UMass Chan news page.
