Jen Sandler, senior lecturer in anthropology at UMass Amherst and director of the UMass Alliance for Community Transformation (UACT), has been awarded the 2023 Manning Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
She is one of five faculty members—one from each UMass campus—who will receive $10,000 awards in recognition of their deep commitment to academic excellence and their exceptional dedication to students and the university. They will be honored at a luncheon on June 21. UMass President Marty Meehan joined UMass Lowell alumni Robert and Donna Manning, who established the prize, to announce this year’s recipients.