University of Massachusetts Amherst

Wilmore Webley, senior vice provost for equity and inclusion, has announced that  11 faculty members have been selected to participate in the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD) Summer 2024 Faculty Success Program …

Pranav Viswanathan, a senior undergraduate student in chemistry, has been named the recipient of the 2024 Sir Harold W. Kroto and Steve F.A. Acquah Global Educational Outreach for Science Engineering and Technology…

Written by a team of UMass Amherst researchers, the open online eBook “Critical Media Literacy and Civic Learning” has been recognized by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) as a high-quality civics…

A team of UMass Amherst students, in collaboration with students from Clark University and Wentworth Institute of Technology, recently received a first-place prize of $10,000 in the 24th Annual Affordable Housing Development Competition …

Doctoral student Paola Pimentel Furlanetto will be honored for her commitment to diversity and graduate students Elif Savas and RoseAnn Elaine Vik will be recognized for their exceptional work in teaching during…

The Center for Teaching and Learning has announced the recipients of the 2023-24 Faculty Distinguished Teaching Awards. Since 1961, the University of Massachusetts has presented the Distinguished Teaching Award to…

As the U.S. Food and Drug Administration explores front-of-package nutrition labeling to help American consumers make healthier eating choices, a new University of Massachusetts Amherst study finds that a food labeling system…

A new report published by the Economic & Public Policy Research group at the UMass Donahue Institute has found that the ClimateTech Initiative – proposed by Gov. Maura T. Healey’s administration’s as part of the Mass Leads Act – is…

Sofiya Alhassan, associate dean for inclusion and engagement with the UMass Amherst Graduate School and professor in the Department of Kinesiology, recently received the 2024 Zenobia L. Hikes Distinguished Career Award from the Faculty…

The Office of Faculty Development (OFD) has announced the recipients of 15 2024-25 Mutual Mentoring Grants, awarded to faculty and librarians leading mutual mentoring projects. The Mutual Mentoring Grant Program aims to help faculty and…