The Isenberg School of Management at UMass Amherst has received a $20 million gift from Douglas ’71 and Diana Berthiaume to attract and retain top faculty members, support impactful research, and enhance the Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship. The Berthiaumes are the most generous cash donors in UMass Amherst history and this extraordinary gift is the largest cash donation ever to Isenberg.

UMass Amherst's linguistics department—ranked No. 2 in the world—offers both undergraduate and graduate students opportunities to conduct hands-on, in-depth research with world-class scholars. Through an independent research study of her own design, linguistics major Emily Knick ‘23 is investigating how languages evolve and what such changes can teach us about how the brain produces and perceives language.

When Nilanjana "Buju" Dasgupta came to the United States as an international student, she felt for the first time what it was like to be a person in the minority—an experience that has stuck with her throughout her professional career. Today, she is professor of psychology and director of the Institute of Diversity Sciences (IDS) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Learn how she puts her research to work solving real-world social challenges and how she brings people together across diverse disciplines to advance social justice through STEM research.