Notables

Dr. Anthony S. Fauci (left), director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, will deliver the commencement address to graduates of the University of Massachusetts Worcester School of Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, and Graduate School of Nursing on June 1, UMass said. He will receive an honorary degree from the school, as will Margaret H. Marshall, chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, and Dr. Leonard J. Morse, Worcester commissioner of public health.

Alejandro P. Heuck, a biochemist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has received a four-year, $308,000 grant from the American Heart Association to develop molecular probes that can measure cholesterol levels in the membranes of individual cells, UMass said. These probes will be designed to help detect how well cholesterol-lowering drugs work and to diagnoses diseases such as atherosclerosis and Alzheimer's.