The University of Massachusetts Medical School ( UMMS ) is one of five campuses of the University of Massachusetts ( UMass ) system.

One of the fastest-growing academic health centers in the country, UMMS is located in Worcester, Massachusetts ; other UMass sites are located in Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth and Lowell.

UMMS is ranked 7th in primary-care education and 48th in research among the United States ' 125 medical schools in the 2012 U. S. News & World Report annual guide, " America ’ s Best Graduate Schools ”.

UMMS is also a research center.

UMMS is extending its mission of public service through its Commonwealth Medicine initiative.

Named in honor of Lamar Soutter ( founding dean of the School of Medicine ), the Lamar Soutter Library at UMMS contains more than 288, 000 volumes and is the state's leading source of biomedical information for inter ‑ library loan.

UMMS scientists also pioneered the fundamental elements of DNA-based flu vaccines during the 1990s.

In 1998 the UMMS system of hospitals and clinics merged with Memorial Health Care to form UMass Memorial Health Care, the largest health-care provider in Central Massachusetts and clinical partner of UMMS.

Catapulted by the success of UMMS licenses and patents ( including intellectual property related to RNAi gene-silencing technology and drug and vaccine development ), UMass ranked eighth in the nation in generating income from the licensing of faculty-derived discoveries and products and generated $ 70, 553, 428 in technology-transfer income in FY 2009, executing 50 technology licenses and options and creating one start-up company ( according to the fiscal year 2009 report released by the Association of University Technology Managers ).

In addition to its education, research and public-service missions, the hospital and clinical components of UMMS are part of UMass Memorial Health Care ( UMMHC ).

The research mission at UMMS was augmented in 1997 with the acquisition of the financially-ailing Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research, the Shrewsbury, Massachusetts institution where researchers developed the combined oral contraceptive pill during the early 1960s.

The UMMS extended campus includes the Brudnick Neuropsychiatric Research Institute, labs and offices in the Massachusetts Biotechnology Research Park in Worcester ; sites in Shrewsbury and Auburn ; the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center in Waltham and the New England Newborn Screening Program and Massachusetts Biologic Laboratories in Jamaica Plain and Mattapan.

During the past four decades UMMS researchers have made advances in a broad range of disease families, from HIV and infectious diseases to cancer, genetic disorders, diabetes and immune disease.

UMMS scientists are making strides in collaborative efforts to develop vaccines for avian flu, HIV, West Nile virus and rabies.

UMMS was established by an act of the Massachusetts Legislature in 1962 to provide residents of the commonwealth an opportunity to study medicine at an affordable cost and to increase the number of primary-care physicians practicing in the commonwealth ’ s under-served areas.

Approximately 125 students enroll annually, and more than 2, 700 students have received medical degrees from UMMS.

Through educational planning, development, innovation and resources students learn the core knowledge, skills, attitudes and values which serve as the foundation for physician training at UMMS, according to the School of Medicine website.

Reflective of the success of these learning objectives are the results of the annual Match Day at UMMS, when students discover where they will begin their careers as doctors.

UMMS has emerged on the national scene as a research center.

In 1998, UMMS researcher Craig Mello ( an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute ) and his colleague Andrew Fire ( of Stanford University, then of the Carnegie Institution in Washington, D. C .) discovered RNA interference ( RNAi ).

Since the discovery of RNAi, researchers at UMMS and around the world have taken advantage of its technology to speed investigation into a variety of diseases.

UMMS Professor of Medicine Shan Lu, leader of the UMMS DNA vaccine efforts, and his colleagues have partnered with PowerMed ( a British immunotherapeutics company ) to advance the development of a potential avian-flu vaccine.

Federal and private research grants and contracts at UMMS rose from about $ 2 million in 1977 to more than $ 307. 6 million in 2011, putting UMMS in the top third of all research-based medical schools.

It is also possible, but equally doubtful, that he actually shot down the hundreds of men with which his legend credits him.

Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which his legitimate aspirations and dignity may be realized ''.

At General Power's seat in the balcony there is also a gold phone.

In addition to the authentication and acknowledgment procedures which precede and follow the sending of the go messages, again in special codes, each message also contains an `` internal authenticator '', another specific signal to convince the recipient that he is getting the real thing.

He added that he also stresses the works of these favorite masters on tour, especially Mahler's First and Fourth symphonies, and Das Lied Von der Erde, and Bruckner's Sixth -- which is rarely played -- and Seventh.

The test of form is fidelity to the experience, a gauge also accepted by the abstract expressionist painters.

Though he is also concerned with freeing dance from pedestrian modes of activity, Merce Cunningham has selected a very different method for achieving his aim.

The answers derived by these means may determine not only the temporal organization of the dance but also its spatial design, special slips designating the location on the stage where the movement is to be performed.

It is because there is not only darkness but also light that our situation becomes inexplicable.

but there is also compassion.

also he is a drunk, and has lost his job on that account.

And if I have gone into so much detail about so small a work, that is because it is also so typical a work, representing the germinal form of a conflict which remains essential in Mann's writing: the crude sketch of Piepsam contains, in its critical, destructive and self-destructive tendencies, much that is enlarged and illuminated in the figures of, for instance, Naphta and Leverkuhn.

By `` image '' is meant not only a visual presentation, but also remembered sensations of any of the five senses plus the feelings which are immediately conjoined therewith.

he is questioning, also, every epistemology which stems from Hume's presupposition that experience is merely sense data in abstraction from causal efficacy, and that causal efficacy is something intellectually imputed to the world, not directly perceived.

it is true that they are also extremely dull.

Now the detective must save his own skin by informing on the girl he loves, who is also the real murderer.

But it is also the climax to one of the absorbing chapters in our current political history.

Since a civilizational crisis involves also a crisis in private interests and in the ruling class, reaction is normally found among those who feel themselves to be among the ruling class.

`` The Rocking Horse Winner '' is also a story about a boy's love for his mother.

Evidence is plentiful that early and later also he has been indebted to the Gothic romancers, who deal in extravagant horror, to the symbolists writing at the end of the preceding century, and in particular to the stream-of-consciousness novelists, Henry James and James Joyce among them.