Faculty

In recent years, University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty members have won an impressive array of the world’s and the nation’s most prestigious awards, including: the Nobel Prize; the Pulitzer Prize; the National Book Award for Poetry; the Tanner Prize for Poetry; the American Book Award for Fiction; the Draper Award in Engineering; and numerous MacArthur, Guggenheim, Sloan, Woodrow Wilson, and Fulbright Fellowships. Faculty are also heavily represented as awardees of honors and support from a range of learned societies and professional organizations. Faculty responsibilities include teaching, research, and public service. Most faculty members teach both undergraduate and graduate students, in the latter case supervising research, theses, and dissertations. More than 300 faculty members engage in sponsored research, which in the 2001-02 academic year totaled more than $87 million. Other faculty conduct research without special financial support, producing scholarly books and articles, and also textbooks, reviews, and in some cases literary works and performances. Public service takes two forms: academic administration within the University and expert assistance to local communities, the state, region, and beyond.

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