Associate Professor Sandy Litchfield has received a 2022 Puffin Award for her On Distant Keys project. She is also a recipient of a UMass ADVANCE Mutual Mentoring Grant for the Transdisciplinary Future Studies Team which seeks to build a network of academics – from the creative disciplines (art, design, literature) and research-based disciplines (geoscience, anthropology, history, and computer science) – who are interested in future studies to promote environmental and social justice. The team will promote long-term thinking, while cultivating a standard of agency, insight and hope with which future generations can shape a just and sustainable future.