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Whitney Battle-Baptiste is one of fourteen administrators and faculty members from across the university have been selected for funding by the provost and chancellor to attend transformational leadership programs through the HERS Leadership Institute, ELATES at Drexel or the Harvard Institutes for Higher Education this spring, summer and coming academic year.

Laurie Godfrey

Sonya Atalay, anthropology and director of NSF CBIKS, has been named to the new cohort of National Geographic Explorers who are redefining what it means to lead in science, conservation, education, technology and storytelling.

Lynnette Leidy Sievert, anthropology, discussed hot flashes and menopause on local radio podcast “Talk the Talk.” “With menopause, the reason we get hot flashes is because that thermo-neutral zone narrows, and it narrows because the estrogen is being pulled away from our bodies,” she says. Listen Here>

Our graduate students receiving awards

Lynnette Arnold co-authors JONA article

UMass ADVANCE Equitable Practices in Collaboration (EPiC) award of 2025. 

UMass Amherst will be hosting the conference

Graduate Students receiving department award