Last week, more than 130 students in the School of Medicine discovered where they will spend the next several years as physicians. On Friday, scores of these students mounted the stage of Thalia Mara Hall in Jackson to announce to their peers where they will train in their specialties as residents, in locations from Boston to Gainesville, and from Chapel Hill to Portland. Nearly half of those students – 60 in all – matched right here at the Medical Center.

The Department of Microbiology and Immunology is hosting a Visiting Scholar through the Fulbright Program, one of the world’s most selective research fellowships. Dr. Babek Alibayov, a microbiologist from Azerbaijan, is spending the first half of 2021 studying antibiotic resistance and food-borne diseases at UMMC.

We’re all probably familiar with the rule about consuming eight glasses of water a day, but that regimen fails to take into account a lot of things, including how big, and how active, you are. If you would like more guidance about daily water intake, drink in this advice from two Medical Center experts.

Several interesting events are scheduled for the upcoming week at the Medical Center.

Medical Center leadership is proud to acknowledge those employees who will celebrate service anniversaries during the week of March 22-28.